Greece looking for 150 billion in compensation/reparations

[Irongrip400]

From a nazi occupation in 1943. Germany says the debt was paid in 1960, Greece is broke and now wants money, and sees the austerity measures as an economic occupation. Is the breakdown of the EU inevitable? Is the nationalist machine once again rolling? What say you European getbiggers?


How will this affect Gunther's retirement? (BB related)

[Bad Boy Dazza]

Greece is one big welfare state.   Naturally they are trying to sponge their way out of trouble. 

[G_Thang]

Greece is one big welfare state.   Naturally they are trying to sponge their way out of trouble. 

 

i thought that was ireland trying to sponge off of the UK.

[Bad Boy Dazza]

i thought that was ireland trying to sponge off of the UK.

  Ireland is part of the UK

[irishdave]

You two little maggots

[Bad Boy Dazza]

You two little maggots

have another beer you dumb irishman

[Griffith]

  Ireland is part of the UK

Northern Ireland is 

[_bruce_]

Political propaganda is in full swing and time is running out.
Socialist ass wipes on suicide watch - let's see how this one goes down.

[bigmc]

From a nazi occupation in 1943. Germany says the debt was paid in 1960, Greece is broke and now wants money, and sees the austerity measures as an economic occupation. Is the breakdown of the EU inevitable? Is the nationalist machine once again rolling? What say you European getbiggers?


How will this affect Gunther's retirement? (BB related)

its just a matter of time

germany fiddled the books to get everyone in the euro

its coming back to bite them on the arse

[Vince G, CSN MFT]

From a nazi occupation in 1943. Germany says the debt was paid in 1960, Greece is broke and now wants money, and sees the austerity measures as an economic occupation. Is the breakdown of the EU inevitable? Is the nationalist machine once again rolling? What say you European getbiggers?


How will this affect Gunther's retirement? (BB related)

Germany only paid a fraction of the debt owed.  Greece is messed up but it doesn't mean that Germany should be able to wiggle out of its bills

[Irongrip400]

Germany only paid a fraction of the debt owed.  Greece is messed up but it doesn't mean that Germany should be able to wiggle out of its bills

So what you're saying is, that this is Greece's 40 acres and a mule?

[Mazda323]

Soon, in 22th of May we gonna have a memory festival here in Crete, of the Battle Of Crete where during the WW2, the German airborns fought to conquer our island.

After their victory aginst the Greeks, the Australians, the New Zealands, the South Africans, the Englands and the Americans, they do several things to our people.

They burn down my village, they burn olive trees (the local economy moderator), they feed their soldiers with cows and chickens and goats...

They killed several civilians in many villages around Crete.

You think the destroy of the local economy, the demolish of those villages, of roads, of our local domestic structures should not be paid off, as the Germans paid other European countries?!

But the lives of hounderns of Greeks, they can't paid off...

P.S. Check here...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axis_occupation_of_Greece#German_atrocities

[travisma]

Get over it.... Were you there? Next you will be saying the mongolians should pay for the greek debt because of their atrocities.....

Coming from a Greek Family.... NONE OF US CARE ABOUT IT.... ITS THE PAST FELLA.

Soon, in 22th of May we gonna have a memory festival here in Crete, of the Battle Of Crete where during the WW2, the German airborns fought to conquer our island.

After their victory aginst the Greeks, the Australians, the New Zealands, the South Africans, the Englands and the Americans, they do several things to our people.

They burn down my village, they burn olive trees (the local economy moderator), they feed their soldiers with cows and chickens and goats...

They killed several civilians in many villages around Crete.

You think the destroy of the local economy, the demolish of those villages, of roads, of our local domestic structures should not be paid off, as the Germans paid other European countries?!

But the lives of hounderns of Greeks, they can't paid off...

P.S. Check here...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axis_occupation_of_Greece#German_atrocities

[Irongrip400]

Soon, in 22th of May we gonna have a memory festival here in Crete, of the Battle Of Crete where during the WW2, the German airborns fought to conquer our island.

After their victory aginst the Greeks, the Australians, the New Zealands, the South Africans, the Englands and the Americans, they do several things to our people.

They burn down my village, they burn olive trees (the local economy moderator), they feed their soldiers with cows and chickens and goats...

They killed several civilians in many villages around Crete.

You think the destroy of the local economy, the demolish of those villages, of roads, of our local domestic structures should not be paid off, as the Germans paid other European countries?!

But the lives of hounderns of Greeks, they can't paid off...

P.S. Check here...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axis_occupation_of_Greece#German_atrocities

So Greeks hate Germans?  It was funny watching the Greek MP talk about how Germany owed them money and that Germans thought all Greeks were lazy. Kind of funny to watch that kind of un PC banter between nations. Only a matter of time before shit goes awry on the continent again.

[Mazda323]

It's not the far past.

Also the puppet goverment of Greece back at the German occupation period, was forced to take a loan from the Germans... forced to... notice and check that.

[Mazda323]

So Greeks hate Germans?  It was funny watching the Greek MP talk about how Germany owed them money and that Germans thought all Greeks were lazy. Kind of funny to watch that kind of un PC banter between nations. Only a matter of time before shit goes awry on the continent again.

No, please... we don't hate Germans!!!

It's just a matter of justice, when they paid off other European countries about War World 2 crimes...

[Vince G, CSN MFT]

So what you're saying is, that this is Greece's 40 acres and a mule?

 

[Bad Boy Dazza]

so who does benefit?   The banks....?

greece is historicaly right with this.

should ease theyr debt a bit.

the eu is changing, nations like greece were temporarily allowed to get a raise all on credit, theyre now just returning to where they been before.

greek ppl dont hate germans, they dislike their government.

its clear for everyone that its not the german ppl who benefit from this euro.

nationalists in germany nor greece wont get any significant power anytime soon.

[Marty Champions]

lifes good seemingly

[BigCyp]

I love Mother Greece with all my heart.

[NelsonMuntz]

Germany only paid a fraction of the debt owed.  Greece is messed up but it doesn't mean that Germany should be able to wiggle out of its bills

Vince if reparations were made in America do you think it would be like this?

[hardgainerj]

Get over it.... Were you there? Next you will be saying the mongolians should pay for the greek debt because of their atrocities.....

Coming from a Greek Family.... NONE OF US CARE ABOUT IT.... ITS THE PAST FELLA.

but you like to remind the world of democracy every chance you get , stfu

[Bad Boy Dazza]

this Spartans thing must be a myth??

[El Diablo Blanco]

With Greece in such economic shits, is it cheap to buy a nice Mediterranean villa right on the water?

[syntaxmachine]

its clear for everyone that its not the german ppl who benefit from this euro.

Here's a list of benefits apparently accrued to Germany as a result of being in the Eurozone (and, in particular, being the anchor economy of the Eurozone, i.e., the economy with the most impact on other economies in the union as well as decision making power). Now, the benefits seem to go to the German government and to German businesses, which doesn't necessarily translate to benefits for the average German. Still, it's likely that Germans as a whole are better off than if they had either stayed with the DM or returned to it.

http://www.piie.com/publications/papers/print.cfm?ResearchId=1778&doc=pub