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martyb
on Monday July 06 2015, @08:57AM
from the getting-what-you-asked-for-may-not-be-getting-what-you-want dept.
from the getting-what-you-asked-for-may-not-be-getting-what-you-want dept.
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: 1) by GDX on Tuesday July 07 2015, @01:40AM
Actually some European governments don't want to admit their part of the responsibility, they wanted Greece to be part of the Euro when it was know that was not ready. Then they destroyed the economy of the southern countries, by production quotas and international trade agreements, how is Spain is not permitted to produce enough milk to supply its internal market? with force them to buy milk.
Basically Greece, Portugal and Spain before the Euro where economies with strong agriculture, stockbreeding and also a little industry, primarily shoes, clothing and other basic or primary transformations, even trough tourism was important factor not was the dominant. The European union destroyed those economies without a transformation plan for them, leaving the with little options apart from tourism plus most of the European regulations an treaties tend to benefit only the norther countries discriminating the southern ones.
Even if Greece is the main responsible for its problems is not the only one and the other responsible countries don't want to admit their part in the Greece problem.