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Greeks Vote "NO" on EU Terms

posted by martyb on Monday July 06 2015, @08:57AM   Printer-friendly
from the getting-what-you-asked-for-may-not-be-getting-what-you-want dept.

kaszz writes:

The Greeks voted no to the European Union's terms, despite warnings from the EU that rejecting new austerity terms would set their country on a path out of the Eurozone. 62% voted "No" while 38% voted "Yes".

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  • (Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Monday July 06 2015, @07:47PM

    by tangomargarine (667) on Monday July 06 2015, @07:47PM (#205808)

    Er...hasn't there been talk of Turkey joining the EU?

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  • (Score: 2) by FatPhil on Monday July 06 2015, @09:15PM

    by FatPhil (863) <{pc-soylent} {at} {asdf.fi}> on Monday July 06 2015, @09:15PM (#205844) Homepage
    Yeah, and there's been talk of me emigrating to Canada or New Zealand. Coincidence? I think not! (Which is funny, as some might say that I live in one of the shithole countries that should never have been let into the EU itself, but they're ignoramuses as this plucky little country is already pulling its weight, and only contributing positively.)
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    • (Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Monday July 06 2015, @10:48PM

      by tangomargarine (667) on Monday July 06 2015, @10:48PM (#205879)

      Your post is kind of impossible to tell whether you're being sarcastic because 1) we don't know what country you're talking about, 2) all the rest of your statements aren't possible to analyze because of it, and 3) humor doesn't work with one undefined side either.

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      • (Score: 2) by FatPhil on Tuesday July 07 2015, @07:41AM

        by FatPhil (863) <{pc-soylent} {at} {asdf.fi}> on Tuesday July 07 2015, @07:41AM (#206020) Homepage
        Well, there's some sarcasm, certainly. I've got a naive positive outlook that the EU will learn from its repeated mistakes, so much so I've just bought a larger flat here. That's because my comments about Estonia were honest - and I'm happy to do my bit in the otherwise-fantasy trickle-down economy, to get my spending and my not-insignificant taxes lubricating the cogs. It's the country that's shaken off its Soviet history the most effectively - corruption (perception, as per CPI) is lowish, and dropping, and shaming is high when it's discovered.

        But I'm sure I could become as attached and loyal to another country, were the EU to piss me off enough. Alas, being an EU citizen in a Euro country, I do benefit greatly from those two things.
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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 07 2015, @12:11AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 07 2015, @12:11AM (#205913)

      Don't come to New Zealand. We're doing the same thing, but without the banks being involved: the government is selling off all our public assets and then bitching that we don't have any way to pay off the new debt they've run up (almost $100 billion, a record, up from under $20 billion in 2009, which also shows a record spend on their part).

      Funny, it's the right wing parties who claim to be fiscally responsible yet these guys run up absolutely epic debts every single time they get in, and they claim the left wing parties are unable to responsibly manage finances, yet they were the ones who paid down the debt.

  • (Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Tuesday July 07 2015, @12:16AM

    by Phoenix666 (552) on Tuesday July 07 2015, @12:16AM (#205919) Journal

    Europe rejected it because Turks are muslims.

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