Re: Greece financial bailout, and the mood of other Euro users.
 

This about sums up my feelings too. First they vote for virtually communist welfare policies while cheating on taxes as much as they can, and then start protesting when they have to face the obvious consequences. All while the EU picks up the bill!

The "loan" is probably still worth it, though. But there had better be some very harsh terms.

And I'm wondering why nothing was done about this earlier. Surely the EU must have realized Greece was destabilizing the euro years before anything happened. Why didn't anyone act?

Us northern countries don't get away with breaking a single directive without it being a huge scandal. Any crap that comes our way is excused with "the EU says so, nothing we can do". We even have a "president" and "foreign minister" no one voted for!

Meanwhile the southern countries get away with murder. People are getting increasingly frustrated with the EU, and this kind of favoritism isn't helping.

Re: Greece financial bailout, and the mood of other Euro users.
 

Is this some kind of a joke?

Re: Greece financial bailout, and the mood of other Euro users.
 

Sad very sad issue. Specially for regular greeks who have to pay the largest price for the stupidity of former government's and banks.

Re: Greece financial bailout, and the mood of other Euro users.
 

Say WHAT?? You must be joking with this comment... You really think this all subsidizes? :D

Re: Greece financial bailout, and the mood of other Euro users.
 

Oh it's easy to blame the banks and capitalists, but the truth is that the voting public was perfectly happy with the corruption as long as it benefited them. This is nothing like Iceland and its insane risk-taking bankers. I have little sympathy.

Re: Greece financial bailout, and the mood of other Euro users.
 

You think it is just okay to give a loan to a totally bankrupt government without good guarantee's? Spare me. This is what happens when loan and markets aren't controlled.

Privatizing profits and socializing losses... The public has to pay also, but fairnes would be a nice gesture for once in these things.

Re: Greece financial bailout, and the mood of other Euro users.
 

No one asked for any kind of sympathy. Greeks are going to pay for the sins of the past, even those who are not to blame for the situation. But this is a chance for all European people (and for all the western economies) to think that something is wrong with the system. It just leads to an unequal distribution of wealth, which will in turn lead to collapse of all the fragile economies out there. No European country lacks of deficit, it is just a matter of time for the next crisis to come up.

Re: Greece financial bailout, and the mood of other Euro users.
 

We are planning to spend our honeymoon in Greece so I hope these strikes will be over soon.
The question is, which kind of EU do we want to have? If we think of it as a community of states working together I think it's our duty to help out. But of course there have to be rules equal to each and everyone, and a system of corruption and people not paying taxes doesn't fit in.
Not much talk about that here in Sweden anyway.

Re: Greece financial bailout, and the mood of other Euro users.
 

I'm all for critisising the state of global capitalism, but the Greece crisis is more about a totally corrupt political system than global economics. The greek economy might be fragile, but most of Greece's current problems stem from decisions made by greek politicians, not bankers.

Re: Greece financial bailout, and the mood of other Euro users.
 

Indeed.The problem is the corrupt political system but also the mentality of Greek people.Massive lying when filing taxes and always trying to find ways to avoid paying the state.Obviously this doesn't apply to everybody, but a huge number of people were and still are acting like that.