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color: #3d77e0; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; line-height: 1em; margin-bottom: 4px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;Πολιτική&lt;span class="add" style="font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;30.01.2012&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;h1 style="background-color: white; color: #003282; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 7px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;Είπαν «ναι» στο δημοσιονομικό σύμφωνο και τον ESM&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;div class="partNav" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; clear: both; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.792em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="clearing" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; border-width: initial; border-width: initial; clear: both; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 0; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: white; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;&lt;div class="picBoxDetailTop" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; float: left; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; width: 194px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.dw-world.de/popups/popup_lupe/0,,15704186,00.html" style="color: #333333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="http://www.dw-world.de/image/0,,15672259_1,00.jpg" style="display: block; float: left; margin-bottom: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="captionBox" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;i class="caption" style="background-color: #f4f4f4; color: #555555; display: block; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; line-height: 1.4em; padding-bottom: 3px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 3px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.dw-world.de/popups/popup_lupe/0,,15704186,00.html" style="color: #555555; font-size: 10px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="detailTeaserBox" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; float: left; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; width: 374px;"&gt;&lt;h4 class="detailContentTeasertext" style="color: #333333; font-size: 12px; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;Οι «27» ενέκριναν τη συμφωνία για τον ESM και συμφώνησαν σε μέτρα για την ενίσχυση της ανάπτυξης και της απασχόλησης. Το ελληνικό ζήτημα απασχόλησε τη σύνοδο με αφορμή την πρόταση για τον «δημοσιονομικό επίτροπο»&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="clearing" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; border-width: initial; border-width: initial; clear: both; line-height: 0; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="detailContent" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; border-width: initial; clear: both; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 10px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;&lt;div style="color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 13px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 13px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;Οι αρχηγοί κρατών και κυβερνήσεων της ΕΕ ενέκριναν σήμερα τη συμφωνία για τον μόνιμο μηχανισμό στήριξης ESM, ο οποίος θα τεθεί σε ισχύ την 1η Ιουλίου και θα διαθέτει κεφάλαια ύψους 500 δις. ευρώ.&lt;br /&gt;Οι «27» επικύρωσαν τη σχετική απόφαση των υπουργών του Eurogroup, ωστόσο ανοιχτό παραμένει το ζήτημα της ενίσχυσης των κεφαλαίων του ESM. Το θέμα αυτό θα συζητηθεί στην σύνοδο κορυφής του Μαρτίου. Συζητείται το ενδεχόμενο διπλασιασμού των κεφαλαίων του μηχανισμού στο 1 τρισ. ευρώ. Αυτό ζητούν μεταξύ άλλων η ιταλική κυβέρνηση και το ΔΝΤ, ωστόσο η γερμανική κυβέρνηση απορρίπτει μέχρι στιγμής το αίτημα.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 13px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Συμφώνησαν σε δημοσιονομικό σύμφωνο και ανάπτυξη&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 13px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="picBoxInlineEven" style="display: block; float: right; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 5px; margin-right: -8px; margin-top: 0px; width: 194px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.dw-world.de/popups/popup_lupe/0,,15704186_ind_1,00.html" style="color: #003282;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img alt="Ικανοποίηση στις Βρυξέλλες για τη συμφωνία " border="0" height="109" src="http://www.dw-world.de/image/0,,15704155_1,00.jpg" style="clear: both; display: block; float: left; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; max-width: none;" width="194" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;i class="caption" style="background-color: #f4f4f4; color: #555555; display: block; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; line-height: 1.4em; padding-bottom: 3px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 3px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.dw-world.de/popups/popup_lupe/0,,15704186_ind_1,00.html" style="color: #555555; font-size: 10px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"&gt;Ικανοποίηση στις Βρυξέλλες για τη συμφωνία&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Οι 27 ηγέτες συμφώνησαν επίσης στο ζήτημα της αναθέρμανσης της ανάπτυξης και της ενίσχυσης της απασχόλησης, όπως δήλωσε ο πρόεδρος του Ευρωπαϊκού Συμβουλίου Χέρμαν φαν Ρομπέι. Στόχος της συμφωνίας είναι η καταπολέμηση της ανεργίας στους νέους. Προς τον σκοπό αυτό θα διατεθούν 82 δισεκατομμύρια ευρώ από τους πόρους των διαρθρωτικών ταμείων που δεν έχουν απορροφηθεί. Η Κομισιόν θα στείλει σύντομα ομάδες δράσης –κυρίως- στις 8 χώρες της ΕΕ όπου σημειώνεται η υψηλότερη ανεργία στους νέους. Οι ομάδες δράσης της Κομισιόν θα φροντίσουν έτσι ώστε να διατεθούν πράγματι οι ευρωπαϊκοί πόροι για την αντιμετώπιση της ανεργίας. Οι χώρες με την υψηλότερη ανεργία στους νέους είναι η Ισπανία, η Ελλάδα, η Εσθονία, η Ιταλία, η Πορτογαλία, η Λετονία, η Σλοβακία και η Λιθουανία.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 13px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;Σύμφωνα με τον σουηδό πρωθυπουργό Φρέντερικ Ράινφελντ, οι ευρωπαίοι ηγέτες συμφώνησαν και στο ζήτημα του δημοσιονομικού συμφώνου, το οποίο προβλέπει την νομοθετική κατοχύρωση του «χρεόφρενου» και την αυτόματη επιβολή κυρώσεων στους δημοσιονομικούς παραβάτες. Στη διακρατική αυτή συνθήκη δεν συμμετέχουν η Βρετανία και η Τσεχία.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 13px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Αντιδράσεις προκαλεί η πρόταση για τον δημοσιονομικό επίτροπο&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 13px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="picBoxInlineUneven" style="display: block; float: left; margin-bottom: 4px; margin-left: -8px; margin-right: 8px; margin-top: 0px; width: 194px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.dw-world.de/popups/popup_lupe/0,,15704186_ind_2,00.html" style="color: #003282;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img alt="Η Α. Μέρκελ με τον πρόεδρο του Ευρωκοινοβουλίου Μάρτιν Σουλτς" border="0" height="109" src="http://www.dw-world.de/image/0,,15703260_1,00.jpg" style="clear: both; display: block; float: left; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; max-width: none; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" width="194" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;i class="caption" style="background-color: #f4f4f4; color: #555555; display: block; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; line-height: 1.4em; padding-bottom: 3px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 3px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.dw-world.de/popups/popup_lupe/0,,15704186_ind_2,00.html" style="color: #555555; font-size: 10px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"&gt;Η Α. Μέρκελ με τον πρόεδρο του Ευρωκοινοβουλίου Μάρτιν Σουλτς&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Το ελληνικό ζήτημα δεν ήταν επισήμως στην ημερήσια διάταξης της συνόδου, καθώς δεν έχουν ολοκληρωθεί οι διαπραγματεύσεις με τους ιδιώτες πιστωτές για το PSI, ενώ βρίσκεται ακόμη σε εξέλιξη ο έλεγχος της τρόικας. Όμως η Ελλάδα βρέθηκε στο επίκεντρο των συζητήσεων με αφορμή της γερμανική πρόταση για τον διορισμό δημοσιονομικού επιτρόπου με εκτελεστικές αρμοδιότητες. Η γερμανική πρωτοβουλία προκάλεσε τις έντονες αντιδράσεις όχι μόνο της Ελλάδας αλλά και πολλών κρατών-μελών της ευρωζώνης και της γερμανικής αντιπολίτευσης, με αποτέλεσμα να αναγκασθεί η Άγκελα Μέρκελ να επιδοθεί σε μια επιχείρηση κατευνασμού των πνευμάτων. Προσερχόμενη στη σύνοδο η καγκελάριος έκανε λόγο για μια συζήτηση που δεν πρέπει να γίνεται. «Η συζήτηση θα πρέπει να αφορά το πώς μπορεί η Ευρώπη να βοηθήσει την Ελλάδα προκειμένου να τηρηθούν οι δεσμεύσεις της», είπε η κα Μέρκελ και πρόσθεσε ότι όλα θα έχουν μια καλή έκβαση εφόσον συζητά η Ελλάδα με τις άλλες χώρες. Η καγκελάριος διευκρίνισε ότι δεν επιθυμεί μια συζήτηση που θα προκαλέσει διαμάχες, αλλά μια συζήτηση που θα αποβεί επιτυχής για τους Έλληνες.&lt;br /&gt;Το ελληνικό ζήτημα θα συζητηθεί πιθανότατα το πρώτο 15θήμερο του Φεβρουαρίου εφόσον θα έχουν ολοκληρωθεί οι διαπραγματεύσεις για το PSI και ο έλεγχος της τρόικας.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 13px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Σταμάτης Ασημένιος, dpa, dapd&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 13px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Υπεύθ. Σύνταξης: Σπύρος Μοσκόβου&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 13px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="clearing" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; border-width: initial; border-width: initial; clear: both; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 0; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="partNav" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; clear: both; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.792em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="clearing" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; border-width: initial; border-width: initial; clear: both; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 0; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;dw&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3942867064865391338-1146275250079932457?l=lornion.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lornion.blogspot.com/feeds/1146275250079932457/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3942867064865391338&amp;postID=1146275250079932457' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3942867064865391338/posts/default/1146275250079932457'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3942867064865391338/posts/default/1146275250079932457'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lornion.blogspot.com/2012/01/esm-27-esm.html' title=''/><author><name>lornion</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15488933462788995546</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_wRaTLW5JtzE/SdVSGw4cHLI/AAAAAAAACWI/GAd9Kd0ddbo/S220/cover.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3942867064865391338.post-3388104272805295743</id><published>2012-01-30T16:12:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2012-01-30T16:12:52.260-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2 style="background-color: white; color: #3d77e0; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; line-height: 1em; margin-bottom: 4px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-transform: uppercase;"&gt;EUROPEAN UNION&lt;span class="add" style="font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; text-transform: none;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;30.01.2012&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;h1 style="background-color: white; color: #003282; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 7px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;EU summit reveals high tensions and mixed priorities&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;div class="partNav" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; clear: both; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.792em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="clearing" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; border-width: initial; border-width: initial; clear: both; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 0; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: white; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;&lt;div class="picBoxDetailTop" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 50, 130); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; float: left; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; width: 194px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.dw-world.de/popups/popup_lupe/0,,15700270,00.html" style="color: #333333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img alt="A finger, a euro coin and a map of Europe" border="0" src="http://www.dw-world.de/image/0,,15626119_1,00.jpg" style="display: block; float: left; margin-bottom: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="captionBox" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 50, 130); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;i class="caption" style="background-color: #f4f4f4; color: #555555; display: block; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; line-height: 1.4em; padding-bottom: 3px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 3px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.dw-world.de/popups/popup_lupe/0,,15700270,00.html" style="color: #555555; font-size: 10px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"&gt;The ministers will likely have to discuss financial aid for Greece&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="detailTeaserBox" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 50, 130); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; float: left; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; width: 374px;"&gt;&lt;h4 class="detailContentTeasertext" style="color: #333333; font-size: 12px; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;Poor economic growth prospects for 2012 have worried EU leaders, who until now have largely been focusing exclusively on cutting deficits. But the need for stimulus, whatever its form, is increasingly recognized.&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="clearing" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; border-width: initial; border-width: initial; clear: both; line-height: 0; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="detailContent" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; border-width: initial; clear: both; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 10px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;&lt;div style="color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 13px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 13px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;A summit of European Union leaders began in Brussels on Monday afternoon, as they struggle to reconcile the continent's desperate need for economic growth with the proverbial call for austerity.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 13px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;Economization, cost cutting, consolidation&amp;nbsp;- that is Europe's motto these days, especially in countries such as Greece and Portugal. But this policy has also triggered social tension and unemployment, which is why EU leaders are meeting on Monday to discuss countermeasures.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 13px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble said last Tuesday in Brussels that the focus would be on competitiveness "because all measures to boost finances also depend on the stable economic development in Europe and all member states."&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 13px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Promoting competition&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 13px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="picBoxInlineEven" style="display: block; float: right; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 5px; margin-right: -8px; margin-top: 0px; width: 194px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.dw-world.de/popups/popup_lupe/0,,15700270_ind_1,00.html" style="color: #003282;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img alt="German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle" border="0" height="109" src="http://www.dw-world.de/image/0,,15684434_1,00.jpg" style="clear: both; display: block; float: left; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; max-width: none;" width="194" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;i class="caption" style="background-color: #f4f4f4; color: #555555; display: block; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; line-height: 1.4em; padding-bottom: 3px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 3px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.dw-world.de/popups/popup_lupe/0,,15700270_ind_1,00.html" style="color: #555555; font-size: 10px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"&gt;Westerwelle does not want EU money squandered&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;The EU wants to boost growth but not with good old stimulus packages, since that would add to the already accumulated debts. Tapping into EU funding pools like the regional and structural development fund and diverting some of this money could be a viable alternative.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 13px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle said in Brussels on Friday that it was also up to the EU Commission to take action along these lines. He argues that EU funds are being squandered anyway.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 13px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;"I think it's wrong that money from the EU's structural development fund is being spent on bicycle stands in the country," he said. The funds should rather be used "to improve the competitiveness of weaker countries in Europe."&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 13px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;In his written summit invitation, EU President Herman Van Rompuy stressed the need to tackle youth unemployment and&amp;nbsp;boost domestic markets, as well as increase support for small and medium-sized companies.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 13px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Mounting fears of a 'bottomless pit'&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 13px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;This official subject matter does not sound particularly controversial. However, it's likely that the most contentious issues will also be broached, albeit behind the scenes. One of these topics is the size of the eurozone's permanent bailout fund ESM (European Stability Mechanism), which is set to replace the temporary EFSF (European Financial Stability Facility).&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 13px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti, International Monetary Fund head Christine Lagarde&amp;nbsp;and the EU Commission are&amp;nbsp;calling for&amp;nbsp;an expansion of the fund, but Germany is putting on the brakes. Berlin wants to stick to the maximum lending capacity of 500 billion euros ($660.6 billion).&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 13px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;A visibly irritated Westerwelle said it was wrong to raise the prospect of new and constantly growing loans before the affected countries had done their homework. Otherwise the bailouts could stifle the incentive for reforms and open up a bottomless pit. He said Germany was merely calling on others do to their bit, no more&amp;nbsp;and no less than the Germans themselves.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 13px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;Germany is not alone with this stance, as the Austrian Finance Minister Maria Fekter pointed out on Tuesday. "It is very, very difficult to convince the parliaments of member states to inject more money yet again," she said.&amp;nbsp;However, she thinks consensus may be achieved on the proposal of adding the untapped ESFS funds to the ESM.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 13px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="picBoxInlineUneven" style="display: block; float: left; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 4px; margin-left: -8px; margin-right: 8px; margin-top: 0px; width: 194px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.dw-world.de/popups/popup_lupe/0,,15700270_ind_2,00.html" style="color: #003282;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img alt="German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble with EU colleagues" border="0" height="109" src="http://www.dw-world.de/image/0,,15688187_1,00.jpg" style="clear: both; display: block; float: left; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; max-width: none; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" width="194" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;i class="caption" style="background-color: #f4f4f4; color: #555555; display: block; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; line-height: 1.4em; padding-bottom: 3px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 3px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.dw-world.de/popups/popup_lupe/0,,15700270_ind_2,00.html" style="color: #555555; font-size: 10px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"&gt;Schäuble says the fiscal pact is making good progress&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Progress toward a fiscal pact&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 13px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;Germany is, however, satisfied with the progress toward the so-called fiscal pact. At the last summit in December, all EU states except Britain pledged to enforce more fiscal discipline. There will even be penalties for budget offenders, although the consequences will not be as severe as desired by Berlin.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 13px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;It is possible that member states will already endorse the text of the fiscal pact at the summit on Monday. Further steps will likely take several months, but the overall process is going more smoothly than expected. This, combined with the ESM, means Europe is well prepared for the crisis, according to Schäuble.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 13px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;"Solidarity and reliability are really coming together in this context. We are credibly addressing the problems in the affected countries by creating a structure for the European currency which will cement its reliability and efficiency. And in the meantime we have to demonstrate solidarity," he said.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 13px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Situation in Greece remains bleak&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 13px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;The issue of Greece still looms large, despite the fact that it has been omitted from the official summit agenda. It is more than likely that Greece will fail to qualify for a second rescue package.&amp;nbsp;The Austrian finance minister stated openly what many think.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 13px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;"The politicians in Greece must know that we expect more of them. It is not just about reducing costs - they must also get their act together and implement structural reforms," said Fekter.&amp;nbsp;Meanwhile, negotiations with private creditors over a debt cut are making little headway. The most recent report by the troika will most likely not be completed in time for the summit.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 13px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Taxpayers footing the bill again?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 13px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="picBoxInlineEven" style="display: block; float: right; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 5px; margin-right: -8px; margin-top: 0px; width: 194px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.dw-world.de/popups/popup_lupe/0,,15700270_ind_3,00.html" style="color: #003282;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img alt="Protesters in Athens gather outside parliament" border="0" height="143" src="http://www.dw-world.de/image/0,,15191637_1,00.jpg" style="clear: both; display: block; float: left; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; max-width: none;" width="194" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;i class="caption" style="background-color: #f4f4f4; color: #555555; display: block; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; line-height: 1.4em; padding-bottom: 3px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 3px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.dw-world.de/popups/popup_lupe/0,,15700270_ind_3,00.html" style="color: #555555; font-size: 10px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"&gt;Greeks are not prepared to swallow more austerity measures&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;European Monetary Affairs Commissioner Olli Rehn has repeatedly stressed that Greece will need more money from the euro states and EU institutions,&amp;nbsp;the EFSF or the European Central Bank. Should the write-off by private creditors be insufficient, "public institutions will have to come to the rescue," according to IMF head Lagarde.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 13px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;In an interview with Spiegel Online, Volker Kauder, the parliamentary leader of Germany's Christian Democrats, threatened Greece with the external appointment of a state commissioner, tasked with monitoring the country's budgetary policy. With such heated statements, the summit will have little choice but to address the issue of Greece.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 13px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;Author: Christoph Hasselbach / nk&lt;br /&gt;Editor: Nicole Goebel&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 13px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="clearing" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; border-width: initial; border-width: initial; clear: both; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 0; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="partNav" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; clear: both; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.792em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="clearing" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; border-width: initial; border-width: initial; 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color: #3d77e0; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; line-height: 1em; margin-bottom: 4px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-transform: uppercase;"&gt;&lt;br class="Apple-interchange-newline" /&gt;OPINION&lt;span class="add" style="font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; text-transform: none;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;30.01.2012&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;h1 style="background-color: white; color: #003282; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 7px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;Opinion: Greece doesn't need a fiscal nanny&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;div class="partNav" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; clear: both; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.792em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="clearing" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; border-width: initial; border-width: initial; clear: both; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 0; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: white; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;&lt;div class="picBoxDetailTop" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 50, 130); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; float: left; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; width: 194px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.dw-world.de/popups/popup_lupe/0,,15702673,00.html" style="color: #333333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img alt="An EU flag flied above the Acropolis in Athens, Greece" border="0" src="http://www.dw-world.de/image/0,,15681723_1,00.jpg" style="display: block; float: left; margin-bottom: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="captionBox" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 50, 130); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;i class="caption" style="background-color: #f4f4f4; color: #555555; display: block; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; line-height: 1.4em; padding-bottom: 3px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 3px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.dw-world.de/popups/popup_lupe/0,,15702673,00.html" style="color: #555555; font-size: 10px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"&gt;Some Germans want Greece to surrender its fiscal sovereignty&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="detailTeaserBox" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 50, 130); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; float: left; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; width: 374px;"&gt;&lt;h4 class="detailContentTeasertext" style="color: #333333; font-size: 12px; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;German proposals for the Greek government to hand over fiscal control to an external 'budget commissioner' in return for aid have provoked an angry response from Athens. And rightly so, writes DW's Bernd Riegert.&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="clearing" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; border-width: initial; border-width: initial; clear: both; line-height: 0; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="detailContent" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; border-width: initial; clear: both; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 10px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;&lt;div style="color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 13px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 13px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;Experts agree: Greece is teetering on the precipice of bankruptcy. If eurozone member states and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) don't send more cash to Athens soon, Greece will become insolvent.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 13px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;Auditors from the "troika" - comprising the European Union, the IMF and the European Central Bank (ECB) - are worried the Greek economy is even worse off than previously feared. They're also unhappy that Athens has made little progress introducing the structural reforms it promised.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 13px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;Germany bears the brunt of the risks in the troika's bailout plan. So it's not surprising that federal officials in Berlin started to ask: Wouldn't it make sense to send a eurozone nanny - or "budget commissioner" - to Athens to oversee the government's austerity plans? Or subject Greece to some broader form of fiscal surveillance? - As members of Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democratic Union (CDU) demanded at their last party conference.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 13px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Unrealistic option&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 13px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;Although such populist measures may placate angry German voters who don't understand why their taxes are being forwarded to Athens, they&amp;nbsp;will achieve little else - for three reasons.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 13px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="picBoxInlineEven" style="display: block; float: right; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 5px; margin-right: -8px; margin-top: 0px; width: 194px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.dw-world.de/popups/popup_lupe/0,,15702673_ind_1,00.html" style="color: #003282;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img alt="Bernd Riegert " border="0" height="143" src="http://www.dw-world.de/image/0,,15525678_1,00.jpg" style="clear: both; display: block; float: left; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; max-width: none;" width="194" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;i class="caption" style="background-color: #f4f4f4; color: #555555; display: block; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; line-height: 1.4em; padding-bottom: 3px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 3px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.dw-world.de/popups/popup_lupe/0,,15702673_ind_1,00.html" style="color: #555555; font-size: 10px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"&gt;Bernd Riegert says the Greek recovery must be led by Greeks, not foreign supervisors&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;First, there is no legal basis for the appointment of an external commissioner to oversee Greek government spending. Greece would need to agree to the plan and probably change its constitution. That's unlikely to happen.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 13px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;Second, Greece is a democracy. Its parliamentary system grants citizens the right to self-determination. Removing fiscal independence from the equation would be seen by many Greeks as a violation of the nation's sovereignty – and rightly so. Popular newspaper reports that compare the "budgetary commissioner" plan to Nazi Germany's occupation of Greece in the Second World War may be exaggerated – not to mention distasteful - but the point is clear.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 13px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;Third, the appointment of a budgetary supervisor with veto rights would be tantamount to an official eurozone confession that Greece is indeed bankrupt. The budget commissioner would be similar to a liquidator who manages a corporate bankruptcy by selling off assets and firing employees. The trouble is: Greece is a nation state. It cannot be dissolved like a company, and its citizens cannot be sent packing. By taking budgetary control of Greece, the eurozone or EU would implicitly assume much wider responsibilities that it is not willing or able to bear in the long term.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 13px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Rising pressure&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 13px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;Given that Berlin's proposal is unrealistic, the details can only have been leaked to the media with one goal in mind: to pressure Greek parliamentarians to cut spending further and introduce drastic economic reforms.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 13px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;All European leaders recognize that Greece virtually surrendered its fiscal sovereignty when it accepted its first international bailout two years ago. The EU, IMF und ECB troika already inspects Athens' books every three months and makes draconian recommendations for austerity. The aim is to convince financial markets that things are improving, because Greece will only regain its financial independence when the interest rates charged on its long-term bonds fall to a manageable level.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 13px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;The European Central Bank flexed its political muscles in November, forcing socialist George Papandreou to resign as prime minister and make way for party-neutral Lucas Papademos - a former ECB executive.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 13px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;Restricting Greece's limited sovereignty even further by appointing a budgetary commissioner would be a mistake. Greece needs to find its own way out of the crisis, and its citizens must make sacrifices. If they are unwilling to do so, eurozone members should stop throwing cash at Athens and encourage Greece to leave the monetary union and start over with a new national currency.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 13px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;Author: Bernd Riegert / sje&lt;br /&gt;Editor: Gabriel Borrud&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 13px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="clearing" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; border-width: initial; border-width: initial; clear: both; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; 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font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 5px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;Cyprus: The last round&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;div class="section-date-author" style="color: #666666; font-size: 0.9em; margin-bottom: 24px; text-transform: uppercase;"&gt;&lt;time content="2012-01-30T16:40:45+01:00" datatype="xsd:dateTime" datetime="2012-01-30" property="dc:issued"&gt;JANUARY 30, 2012 - 4:40PM&lt;/time&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author-block" style="float: left; padding-left: 10px; width: 165px;"&gt;&lt;div class="photo" style="float: left; width: 76px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.neurope.eu/author/robert-ellis" style="color: black; text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;img alt="Robert Ellis" class="imagecache imagecache-author_photo" height="70" src="http://www.neurope.eu/sites/default/files/imagecache/author_photo/img/thumb_1_1306097891-0.jpg" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(200, 200, 200); 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font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.7em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;About the Author&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="clear" style="clear: both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="body-content" style="color: rgb(53, 53, 53) !important;"&gt;&lt;div property="dc:description"&gt;&lt;div class="field field-type-filefield field-field-main-image"&gt;&lt;div class="field-items"&gt;&lt;div class="field-item odd" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #fafafa; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 4px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; font-size: 0.9em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a class="imagecache imagecache-maing_image_detail imagecache-linked imagecache-maing_image_detail_linked active" href="http://www.neurope.eu/blog/cyprus-last-round" style="color: black; text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;img alt="" class="imagecache imagecache-maing_image_detail" height="458" src="http://www.neurope.eu/sites/default/files/imagecache/maing_image_detail/pic_84.jpg" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-style: initial; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; border-width: initial; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;" title="" width="610" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 1.2em; line-height: 1.5em !important; margin-bottom: 1.1em;"&gt;Sooner or later, everybody who has worked with the 'Cyprus question' becomes tired of it.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 1.2em; line-height: 1.5em !important; margin-bottom: 1.1em;"&gt;US President Lyndon Johnson, in his letter to Turkish premier Ismet Inönü in June 1964 called it “one of the most complex problems on earth” and UN Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim said that Cyprus was the “most thankless and frustrating task” of his period of office. Now, it's Ban Ki-moon's turn. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Since the collapse of the power-sharing constitution in December 1963, the island has become a political graveyard for five of his predecessors as well as countless envoys, including Richard Holbrooke, who brokered the Dayton Agreement.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 1.2em; line-height: 1.5em !important; margin-bottom: 1.1em;"&gt;Ban Ki-moon’s predecessor, Kofi Annan, is noted for the failure of the comprehensive Annan Plan, which aimed to reunite the two communities in 2004.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 1.2em; line-height: 1.5em !important; margin-bottom: 1.1em;"&gt;Now the present round of talks, which began between the Greek Cypriot leader Demetris Christofias and the Turkish Cypriot Mehmet Ali Talat in September 2008, is on the verge of collapse.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 1.2em; line-height: 1.5em !important; margin-bottom: 1.1em;"&gt;Since November 2010, Ban Ki-moon has held five tripartite summits in an effort to find a solution, while continuing to stress that the process is Cypriot-owned and Cypriot-led and that the UN’s role is that of facilitator.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 1.2em; line-height: 1.5em !important; margin-bottom: 1.1em;"&gt;The official parameters for the talks are the two high-level agreements between the Greek and Turkish Cypriots from 1977 and 1979 and Security Council resolutions, which stipulate that the aim of a Cyprus settlement is the creation of a bi-communal and bizonal federation with a single sovereignty and citizenship.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 1.2em; line-height: 1.5em !important; margin-bottom: 1.1em;"&gt;However, doubt was cast as to Turkish Cypriot intentions, when Talat’s successor, Derviş Eroğlu, in a letter to Ban Ki-moon in April 2010 spoke of “the principle of equal sovereignty of the two peoples”.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 1.2em; line-height: 1.5em !important; margin-bottom: 1.1em;"&gt;Ban Ki-moon, in a report to the Security Council in November 2010, noted that progress has been “frustratingly slow” and identified the core issues as property and territory. The Greek Cypriots consider these issues as linked, as a discussion on the transfer of territory will solve a number of property issues.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 1.2em; line-height: 1.5em !important; margin-bottom: 1.1em;"&gt;The secretary-general concurred at the Geneva summit in January 2011 but the Turkish Cypriot side refuses to discuss this issue of territory until a mulilateral conference is convened.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 1.2em; line-height: 1.5em !important; margin-bottom: 1.1em;"&gt;Another sticking point is that of governance, where Derviş Eroğlu has reneged on the prior agreement reached between Christofias and Talat on a rotating presidency combined with a weighted cross-vote from both communities.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 1.2em; line-height: 1.5em !important; margin-bottom: 1.1em;"&gt;The chapter on citizenship also includes the issue of the vast influx of Turkish settlers since the Turkish occupation of northern Cyprus in 1974, so that it will be impossible to maintain the population ratio of 4:1 as agreed in the Treaty of Establishment.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; 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border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; float: left; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; width: 374px;"&gt;&lt;h4 class="detailContentTeasertext" style="color: #333333; font-size: 12px; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;Έχει η Γερμανία «ηγετικό» ή απλώς «κεντρικό» ρόλο στην αντιμετώπιση της κρίσης; Οι απόψεις διίστανται, οι ερμηνείες διαφέρουν.&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="clearing" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; border-width: initial; 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font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 13px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;Η καγκελάριος της Γερμανίας Άνγκελα Μέρκελ αναλαμβάνει κεντρικό ρόλο στις συζητήσεις και τις πρωτοβουλίες για την αντιμετώπιση της κρίσης στην Ευρωζώνη. «Κεντρικό», αλλά όχι και «ηγετικό» ρόλο, πιστεύουν πολλοί, για παράδειγμα η επικεφαλής του Διεθνούς Νομισματικού Ταμείου Κριστίν Λαγκάρντ. Ήδη ως υπουργός Οικονομικών στη Γαλλία, η κυρία Λαγκάρντ είχε προτείνει στην καγκελάριο Μέρκελ να δοθούν μεγαλύτερες μισθολογικές αυξήσεις στη Γερμανία, ώστε να μοιραστούν και στις γειτονικές χώρες πιο πλουσιοπάροχα τα οφέλη της οικονομικής ανάπτυξης στην ατμομηχανή της Ευρώπης. Ως επικεφαλής του ΔΝΤ η Κριστίν Λαγκάρντ ζητεί σήμερα την άμεση ενίσχυση των πόρων για τον ευρωπαϊκό μηχανισμό στήριξης:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 13px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;«Η κόσμος χρειάζεται μία ισχυρή ηγεσία, ένας ρόλος που σήμερα θα ταίριαζε στη Γερμανία. Είναι προς το συμφέρον της να επωμιστεί αυτόν τον ρόλο. Πιστεύω ότι μπορεί να το κάνει και ασφαλώς περιμένω ότι θα το κάνει. Όλοι αυτό επιθυμούν» λέει η κ.Λαγκάρντ.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 13px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Οι οικονομικές υποχρεώσεις της «ισχυρής ηγεσίας»&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 13px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="picBoxInlineEven" style="display: block; float: right; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 5px; margin-right: -8px; margin-top: 0px; width: 194px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.dw-world.de/popups/popup_lupe/0,,15701517_ind_1,00.html" style="color: #003282;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img alt="Μεγαλύτερη οικονομική συνεισφορά από το Βερολίνο αναμένει η Κριστίν Λαγκάρντ." border="0" height="109" src="http://www.dw-world.de/image/0,,15674442_1,00.jpg" style="clear: both; display: block; float: left; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; max-width: none;" width="194" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;i class="caption" style="background-color: #f4f4f4; color: #555555; display: block; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; line-height: 1.4em; padding-bottom: 3px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 3px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.dw-world.de/popups/popup_lupe/0,,15701517_ind_1,00.html" style="color: #555555; font-size: 10px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"&gt;Μεγαλύτερη οικονομική συνεισφορά από το Βερολίνο αναμένει η Κριστίν Λαγκάρντ.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Σύμφωνα με αυτήν την ανάγνωση «ισχυρή ηγεσία» σημαίνει ότι η Γερμανία θα συνεισφέρει ακόμη περισσότερα χρήματα στον ευρωπαϊκό μηχανισμό στήριξης, γιατί προφανώς είναι η μόνη χώρα που μπορεί να το κάνει αυτό. Αυτό πιστεύουν το Διεθνές Νομισματικό Ταμείο, η Γαλλία, η Ιταλία. Εκτιμούν μάλιστα, ότι στη μεγάλη ανάγκη η Γερμανία είναι εκείνη που θα καταφέρει να βοηθήσει ακόμα και κραταιές οικονομίες, όπως η γαλλική, που πρόσφατα έχασε το «τριπλό Α» από τους οργανισμούς αξιολόγησης. Όμως η ίδια η Γερμανία φαίνεται να έχει διαφορετική άποψη, όπως έχει επισημάνει η ίδια η Άνγκελα Μέρκελ:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 13px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;«Αυτό που δεν θέλουμε είναι μία κατάσταση στην οποία θα δώσουμε μία υπόσχεση που δεν θα μπορέσουμε να υλοποιήσουμε. Αν η Γερμανία υποσχεθεί κάτι και σε μία ισχυρή επίθεση των αγορών δεν μπορέσει να ανταποκριθεί σε αυτό, τότε ολόκληρη η Ευρώπη θα έχει σοβαρό πρόβλημα» τονίζει η γερμανίδα καγκελάριος.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 13px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;Τελικά κανείς δεν γνωρίζει ποιός οδηγεί ποιόν, ποιος παρασύρει ποιόν στις εξελίξεις. Οι ευρωπαίοι εταίροι αφήνουν να εννοηθεί ότι από τη Γερμανία περιμένουν κάτι περισσότερο από συμβουλές&amp;nbsp;ή υποδείξεις για τη δημοσιονομική τους πολιτική. Το πιο πιθανό είναι ότι στο τέλος ο Γερμανός υπουργός Οικονομικών δεν θα έχει άλλη επιλογή από το να βάλει πιο βαθιά το χέρι στην τσέπη.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 13px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ηγεσία ή μοναχικός δρόμος;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 13px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="picBoxInlineUneven" style="display: block; float: left; margin-bottom: 4px; margin-left: -8px; margin-right: 8px; margin-top: 0px; width: 194px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.dw-world.de/popups/popup_lupe/0,,15701517_ind_2,00.html" style="color: #003282;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img alt="Ο Γιούργκεν Τριτίν κάνει λόγο για μοναχικό δρόμο της Γερμανίας." border="0" height="143" src="http://www.dw-world.de/image/0,,15143365_1,00.jpg" style="clear: both; display: block; float: left; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; max-width: none; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" width="194" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;i class="caption" style="background-color: #f4f4f4; color: #555555; display: block; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; line-height: 1.4em; padding-bottom: 3px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 3px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.dw-world.de/popups/popup_lupe/0,,15701517_ind_2,00.html" style="color: #555555; font-size: 10px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"&gt;Ο Γιούργκεν Τριτίν κάνει λόγο για μοναχικό δρόμο της Γερμανίας.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Μόνο η επίσπευση του μηχανισμού στήριξης έχει ήδη επιβαρύνει τον γερμανικό προϋπολογισμό κατά 20 δισεκατομμύρια ευρώ. Όμως εκεί που οι ευρωπαίοι μιλούν για «ηγεσία», οι Γερμανοί Πράσινοι κάνουν λόγο για «μοναχικό δρόμο» της Γερμανίας. Χαρακτηριστικό το σχόλιο του επικεφαλής της κοινοβουλευτικής ομάδας των Πρασίνων Γιούργκεν Τριτίν:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 13px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;«Ο μοναχικός δρόμος της Γερμανίας στην ευρω-κρίση δεν υποστηρίζεται ούτε από τη Γαλλία, ούτε από την Ιταλία, ούτε από την Ευρωπαϊκή Ένωση, ούτε από το Διεθνές Νομισματικό Ταμείο. Το περίφημο δημοσιονομικό σύμφωνο που είχαμε επικροτήσει τον περασμένο Δεκέμβριο, τώρα ουσιαστικά διαλύεται στα εξ΄ων συνετέθη…»&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 13px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;Τα επόμενα βήματα της καγκελαρίας δεν μπορεί παρά να επηρεαστούν και από τη στάση των μικρότερων κομμάτων του κυβερνητικού συνασπισμού σε μία σειρά από διαμφισβητούμενα ζητήματα: φόρος στις χρηματοπιστωτικές συναλλαγές, ενίσχυση του μηχανισμού στήριξης, πρωτοβουλίες για την ανάπτυξη.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 13px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Ruper Wiederwald/Γιάννης Παπαδημητρίου &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;dw&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 13px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Υπεύθ. σύνταξης Σπύρος Μοσκόβου&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 13px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="clearing" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; border-width: initial; border-width: initial; clear: both; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 0; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="partNav" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; clear: both; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.792em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="clearing" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; border-width: initial; border-width: initial; clear: both; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 0; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;δς&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3942867064865391338-8745371386476972093?l=lornion.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lornion.blogspot.com/feeds/8745371386476972093/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3942867064865391338&amp;postID=8745371386476972093' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3942867064865391338/posts/default/8745371386476972093'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3942867064865391338/posts/default/8745371386476972093'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lornion.blogspot.com/2012/01/blog-post_4094.html' title=''/><author><name>lornion</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15488933462788995546</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_wRaTLW5JtzE/SdVSGw4cHLI/AAAAAAAACWI/GAd9Kd0ddbo/S220/cover.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3942867064865391338.post-6375617194084228265</id><published>2012-01-30T02:56:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-01-30T02:56:00.323-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2 style="background-color: white; color: #3d77e0; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; line-height: 1em; margin-bottom: 4px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;Πολιτική&lt;span class="add" style="font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;28.01.2012&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;h1 style="background-color: white; color: #003282; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 7px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;Δημοσιονομική πειθαρχία και Ελλάδα στη σύνοδο κορυφής&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;div class="partNav" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; clear: both; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.792em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="clearing" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; border-width: initial; border-width: initial; clear: both; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 0; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: white; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;&lt;div class="picBoxDetailTop" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; float: left; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; width: 194px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.dw-world.de/popups/popup_lupe/0,,15699380,00.html" style="color: #333333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="http://www.dw-world.de/image/0,,6647052_1,00.jpg" style="display: block; float: left; margin-bottom: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="captionBox" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;i class="caption" style="background-color: #f4f4f4; color: #555555; display: block; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; line-height: 1.4em; padding-bottom: 3px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 3px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.dw-world.de/popups/popup_lupe/0,,15699380,00.html" style="color: #555555; font-size: 10px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="detailTeaserBox" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; float: left; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; width: 374px;"&gt;&lt;h4 class="detailContentTeasertext" style="color: #333333; font-size: 12px; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;Ελλάδα, ευρω-κρίση και δημοσιονομική πειθαρχία θα απασχολήσουν μία ακόμη σύνοδο κορυφής τη Δευτέρα στις Βρυξέλλες.&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="clearing" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; border-width: initial; border-width: initial; clear: both; line-height: 0; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="detailContent" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; border-width: initial; clear: both; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 10px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;&lt;div style="color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 13px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 13px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;Για μία ακόμη φορά οι εκτιμήσεις λένε ότι η Ελλάδα θα χρειαστεί περισσότερα χρήματα για να αντιμετωπίσει την κρίση. Πολλοί ζητούν από τη Γερμανία να διαθέσει επιπλέον κεφάλαια, αλλά το Βερολίνο αρνείται. Η συνταγή για τις χώρες του Νότου περιορίζεται σε περικοπές, εξοικονόμηση χρημάτων και δημοσιονομική πειθαρχία. Αλλά αυτή η πολιτική οδηγεί σε πολιτικές και κοινωνικές εντάσεις και αυξανόμενη ανεργία. Χρειάζεται ένα αντίβαρο στην πολιτική των περικοπών και σε αυτήν την κατεύθυνση θέλουν να κινηθούν οι ηγέτες της Ευρωζώνης, υποστηρίζει ο Γερμανός υπουργός Οικονομικών Βόλφγκανγκ Σόϊμπλε.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 13px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;«Στη συνάντηση αυτή θα συζητήσουμε κυρίως για τη βελτίωση της ανταγωνιστικότητας στην Ευρώπη. Σε τελική ανάλυση όλα τα δημοσιονομικά μέτρα εξαρτώνται από το πώς θα εδραιώσουμε σταθερή οικονομική ανάπτυξη σε όλες τις χώρες της ευρωζώνης».&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 13px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Εναλλακτικές λύσεις για την ανάπτυξη&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 13px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="picBoxInlineEven" style="display: block; float: right; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 5px; margin-right: -8px; margin-top: 0px; width: 194px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.dw-world.de/popups/popup_lupe/0,,15699380_ind_1,00.html" style="color: #003282;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img alt="Εναλλακτικές λύσεις για την ανάπτυξη αναζητεί ο Γερμανός υπουργός Εξωτερκών." border="0" height="109" src="http://www.dw-world.de/image/0,,15684908_1,00.jpg" style="clear: both; display: block; float: left; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; max-width: none;" width="194" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;i class="caption" style="background-color: #f4f4f4; color: #555555; display: block; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; line-height: 1.4em; padding-bottom: 3px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 3px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.dw-world.de/popups/popup_lupe/0,,15699380_ind_1,00.html" style="color: #555555; font-size: 10px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"&gt;Εναλλακτικές λύσεις για την ανάπτυξη αναζητεί ο Γερμανός υπουργός Εξωτερκών.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Ωστόσο η Ε.Ε. δεν θέλει να ενισχύσει την ανάπτυξη μόνο με συμβατικά προγράμματα για την αναθέρμανση της οικονομίας, γιατί υποστηρίζει ότι με αυτόν τον τρόπο απλώς αυξάνεται το χρέος. Αναζητεί λοιπόν εναλλακτικές λύσεις, όπως την αξιοποίηση κονδυλίων από τα διαρθρωτικά ταμεία που δεν είχαν αξιοποιηθεί μέχρι σήμερα. Εδώ όμως χρειάζεται και η παρέμβαση της Κομισιόν, υποστηρίζει ο Γερμανός υπουργός Εξωτερικών Γκίντο Βέστερβελλε.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 13px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;«Δεν έχει νόημα να παίρνουμε τα χρήματα των διαρθρωτικών ταμείων για να φτιάχνουμε για παράδειγμα πάρκινγκ για ποδήλατα κάπου στην επαρχία, όταν μπορούμε να τα αξιοποιήσουμε για να βελτιώσουμε την ανταγωνιστικότητα της οικονομίας μας».&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 13px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;Στην πρόσκλησή του για τη Σύνοδο της Δευτέρας ο πρόεδρος του Ευρωπαϊκού Συμβουλίου Χέρμαν φαν Ρόμπεϊ αναφέρει ως σημαντικές προκλήσεις την παροχή βοήθειας σε νέους ανέργους, την καλύτερη αξιοποίηση της εσωτερικής αγοράς και την ενίσχυση των μικρομεσαίων επιχειρήσεων. Όλα αυτά φαίνονται αυτονόητα θέματα, στα οποία δεν αναμένονται αντιπαραθέσεις. Αλλά είναι βέβαιο, ότι στο παρασκήνιο της συνόδου θα συζητηθούν και πιο διαμφισβητούμενα ζητήματα, για παράδειγμα η κεφαλαιακή επάρκεια του ευρωπαϊκού μηχανισμού στήριξης.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 13px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Αλληλεγγύη με όρους;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 13px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="picBoxInlineUneven" style="display: block; float: left; margin-bottom: 4px; margin-left: -8px; margin-right: 8px; margin-top: 0px; width: 194px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.dw-world.de/popups/popup_lupe/0,,15699380_ind_2,00.html" style="color: #003282;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img alt="Έκκληση για δραστηριοποίηση απευθύνει στους Έλληνες πολιτικούς η υπουργός Οικονομικών της Αυστρίας." border="0" height="143" src="http://www.dw-world.de/image/0,,15510555_1,00.jpg" style="clear: both; display: block; float: left; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; max-width: none; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" width="194" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;i class="caption" style="background-color: #f4f4f4; color: #555555; display: block; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; line-height: 1.4em; padding-bottom: 3px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 3px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.dw-world.de/popups/popup_lupe/0,,15699380_ind_2,00.html" style="color: #555555; font-size: 10px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"&gt;Έκκληση για δραστηριοποίηση απευθύνει στους Έλληνες πολιτικούς η υπουργός Οικονομικών της Αυστρίας.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Κομισιόν και Διεθνές Νομισματικό Ταμείο εξακολουθούν να ζητούν αύξηση των πόρων του μηχανισμού, ενώ η Γερμανία επιμένει στο συμπεφωνημένο όριο των 500 δισεκατομμυρίων ευρώ. Η αιτιολόγηση από τον υπουργό Εξωτερικών:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 13px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;«Δεν μπορείς να αντιμετωπίσεις μία κρίση χρέους, διευκολύνοντας τη συσσώρευση νέων χρεών, παρά μόνο με πειθαρχία στον προϋπολογισμό και με διαρθρωτικές αλλαγές. Μόνο έτσι ενισχύεται η ανάπτυξη. Και χρειάζεται αμοιβαιότητα για να επιδείξουμε κι εμείς αλληλεγγύη. Και το έχουμε ήδη δείξει αυτό με ποσά που ξεπερνούν τα 200 εκατομμύρια ευρώ».&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 13px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;Η υπουργός Οικονομικών Μαρία Φέκτερ αφήνει να εννοηθεί ότι η Γερμανία δεν είναι η μόνη χώρα που διατυπώνει αυτήν την άποψη. «Είναι πολύ δύσκολο να πειστούν τα εθνικά κοινοβούλια να συναινέσουν σε ακόμη περισσότερα χρήματα» υποστηρίζει η Αυστριακή υπουργός. Όσον αφορά την Ελλάδα, η κ.Φέκτερ απευθύνεται απευθείας πλέον στο πολιτικό προσωπικό της χώρας, λέγοντας ευθέως αυτό που σκέπτονται οι περισσότεροι:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 13px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;«Περιμένουμε ότι το πολιτικό επίπεδο θα πρέπει να δραστηριοποιηθεί περισσότερο στην Ελλάδα. Δεν μιλάμε για μείωση κόστους, μιλάμε για μεταρρυθμίσεις. Εδώ δεν έχουμε δει πρόοδο μέχρι στιγμής».&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Η έκθεση της τρόϊκα δεν αναμένεται να έχει ολοκληρωθεί μέχρι τη σύνοδο κορυφής. Και ήδη ο Ευρωπαίος επίτροπος Όλι Ρεν προϊδεάζει τους υπόλοιπους Ευρωπαίους στην ιδέα ότι η Ελλάδα θα χρειαστεί περισσότερα χρήματα.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 13px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;Christoph Hasselbach / Γιάννης Παπαδημητρίου&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 13px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="clearing" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; border-width: initial; border-width: initial; clear: both; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 0; margin-bottom: 0px; 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background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: red; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.4em; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 3px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;The euro crisis&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;h3 class="headline" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 2.2em; 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A precipitous exit from the euro would be a disaster&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;div class="ec-article-info" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; clear: both; color: #666666; float: left; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 20px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;Jan 28th 2012 | from the print edition, Economist&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="block block-ec_components" id="block-ec_components-share_inline_header" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; 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margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;&lt;div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 13px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;GREECE, progenitor of the euro zone’s debt drama, is back at centre-stage. The reason is a battle between the Greek government, its European and IMF rescuers, and the holders of Greek bonds over the terms of a “voluntary” reduction in its private debts. Greece’s economy is in far worse shape than when the outlines of a deal were put together last October, so there is a bigger financial hole to plug. Germany and other rescuers don’t want to offer more money, not least because Greece’s politicians have broken so many of the promises they made to reform. Bondholders don’t want to take a bigger hit.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 13px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="content-image-float clearfix" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; clear: both; float: right; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 15px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;&lt;img alt="" class="imagecache imagecache-290-width" height="170" src="http://media.economist.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/290-width/images/print-edition/20120128_LDC479.gif" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; display: block; margin-bottom: 2px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" title="" width="229" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 13px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 13px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;If no deal is in place by March 20th, when a big bond payment is due, Greece will be pushed into a chaotic default, which would increase the risk that the country is forced out of the euro. That is a frightening prospect. The ensuing chaos and contagion could fell the single currency, not least because Europe’s governments have made little progress on building a “firewall” around countries like Italy and Spain.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="related-items" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 3px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 3px; clear: both; float: right; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 15px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 4px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 168px;"&gt;&lt;strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; 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padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;European politics&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class="last" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 1.2em; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;&lt;a class="related-inline-topics" href="http://www.economist.com/topics/greek-politics" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #08526d; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;Greek politics&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 13px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;What is the best way out of this mess? Step one is to force private bondholders to take more losses. They have been treated with kid gloves so far because European governments insist the debt deal must be voluntary, thanks in part to a misplaced fear of triggering credit-default swaps. That must change. Discard the veneer of voluntarism and Greece can be tougher on its creditors. It should pass a law that retroactively introduces collective-action clauses into all domestic-debt contracts (making it easier to impose debt deals on recalcitrant bondholders). If it does this now there is still, just, enough time to organise a big, coercive, but orderly, restructuring of Greek bonds by March 20th.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 13px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;That is the route this newspaper has long advocated. A year ago it would have gone a long way towards solving Greece’s problems. Unfortunately, today it is no longer enough. The economy is in such a state, with slumping output and a still-gaping budget deficit, that there is no realistic prospect of reducing its debts to a sustainable level by hitting private bondholders alone. Debts owed to official bodies—from the bonds held by the European Central Bank to the loans from euro-zone governments—will at some point need to be reduced too.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 13px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;Greece will need propping up for a long time. Virtually no progress has been made in overhauling the economy. Although wages have fallen slightly, the country remains chronically uncompetitive (see&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.economist.com/node/21543522" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #08526d; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_self"&gt;article&lt;/a&gt;). Greece’s rescuers bear some blame: they focused too much on raising taxes and too little on reforming the state and freeing up the economy. But the real culprit is the Greek government, which has proved singularly incapable of implementing the reforms needed to allow the economy to grow.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="content-image-float clearfix" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; clear: both; float: right; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 15px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 290px;"&gt;&lt;img alt=" " src="http://media.economist.com/images/images-magazine/2011/02/12/WO/20110212_WOM539_290.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; display: block; margin-bottom: 2px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" /&gt;&lt;span class="caption" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; display: inline; float: left; font-size: 1.1em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;Explore our&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.economist.com/euroguide2011" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #08526d; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title=" (opens in a new window) "&gt;&lt;strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;interactive guide&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;to Europe's troubled economies&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="credit" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: silver; display: inline; float: right; font-size: 1.1em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 13px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;With so little to show for the efforts so far, would it be better for Greece and its European creditors if the country simply left the single currency? If Greece had its own currency, devaluing it would surely be part of the route to greater competitiveness. And leaving the euro might just be the shock Greece’s political system needs to galvanise reform.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 13px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;Yet the costs of a Greek exit still outweigh the benefits. Recreating a currency is far harder than devaluing an existing one. Some industries, such as tourism, would eventually benefit, but in the short term jettisoning the euro would cause devastating disruption. The legal mess of broken contracts it would create would take years to sort out. Greece could face hyperinflation and become a failed state. Not surprisingly, a large majority of Greeks want to keep the euro.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 13px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;&lt;strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;Playing for time&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 13px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;For the rest of Europe, a Greek exit would also be dangerous: it could cause bank runs, capital flight and soaring bond yields in Portugal, Italy and beyond. But over time the balance of risks will change. Once a tough debt restructuring has been imposed on Greece’s private creditors, the country’s fate will have less impact on other bond markets. As reforms in Italy and Spain gain momentum, the distinctions between Greece and others will become clearer. And over the coming months European leaders, with luck, will agree on a permanent way to boost their rescue funds. All this would make the spectre of a Greek exit much less frightening for the rest of the euro zone.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 13px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;Greece’s European rescuers should offer the country a clear choice. If it embraces tough reforms, it will get fresh funds and a gradual reduction of its official debts. But if it continues its current path of inaction, it may not be able to avoid an exit. 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0px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;29.01.2012&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;h1 style="background-color: white; color: #003282; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 7px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;Δημοσιονομικό Σύμφωνο: το κατάλληλο εργαλείο;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;div class="partNav" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; clear: both; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.792em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="clearing" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; border-width: initial; border-width: initial; clear: both; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 0; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: white; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;&lt;div class="picBoxDetailTop" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; float: left; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; width: 194px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.dw-world.de/popups/popup_lupe/0,,15698713,00.html" style="color: #333333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="http://www.dw-world.de/image/0,,6643624_1,00.jpg" style="display: block; float: left; margin-bottom: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="captionBox" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;i class="caption" style="background-color: #f4f4f4; color: #555555; display: block; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; line-height: 1.4em; padding-bottom: 3px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 3px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.dw-world.de/popups/popup_lupe/0,,15698713,00.html" style="color: #555555; font-size: 10px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="detailTeaserBox" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; float: left; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; width: 374px;"&gt;&lt;h4 class="detailContentTeasertext" style="color: #333333; font-size: 12px; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;Το νέο δημοσιονομικό σύμφωνο της ΕΕ θα είναι ένα από τα βασικά θέματα της Συνόδου Κορυφής. Την ώρα που μπαίνουν οι τελευταίες πινελιές επί του τελικού κειμένου, το Βερολίνο είναι αισιόδοξο ότι θα τύχει ευρύτερης αποδοχής&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="clearing" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; border-width: initial; border-width: initial; clear: both; line-height: 0; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="detailContent" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; border-width: initial; clear: both; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 10px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;&lt;div style="color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 13px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 13px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;Μπορεί το σχετικό κείμενο να έχει προετοιμαστεί σε χρόνο ρεκόρ για ευρωπαϊκά δεδομένα, ωστόσο είναι ήδη σαφές ότι εν τέλει δεν θα είναι τόσο αυστηρό όσο ήλπιζαν και ήθελαν να είναι οι Άνγκελα Μέρκελ και Νικολά Σαρκοζί. Ο Χριστιανοδημοκράτης ευρωβουλευτής Έλμαρ Μπροκ, ο οποίος συμμετείχε στις σχετικές διαπραγματεύσεις, το χαρακτηρίζει "σημαντικό θεμέλιο" που όμως δεν επαρκεί: "Πάντα μπορείς να πετύχεις κάτι καλύτερο. Πιστεύω ότι τώρα είναι δυνατόν να επιβάλεις κυρώσεις και να κινείς τις διαδικασίες για υπερβολικό χρέος μέσα από έναν αυτοματισμό. Με τον τρόπο αυτό διασφαλίζεται η κοινοτική μέθοδος και εξαλείφεται ο κίνδυνος διάσπασης της Ευρώπης".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Το σύμφωνο προβλέπει την επιβολή αυτόματων κυρώσεων στις χώρες που παρουσιάζουν υπερβολικά ελλείμματα. Επίσης εισάγεται το λεγόμενο χρεόφρενο το οποίο θα πρέπει να οδηγήσει μακροπρόθεσμα σε ισοσκελισμένους προϋπολογισμούς. Στο τελευταίο επέμενε η Γερμανία που έχει υιοθετήσει ήδη το φρένο του χρέους στο σύνταγμά της. Η Γερμανία δεν προσπαθεί να επιβάλει στους υπόλοιπους τις θέσεις της, επαναλαμβάνει με κάθε ευκαιρία η Α. Μέρκελ:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Καμία χώρα δεν μπορεί να υπαγορεύει στους άλλους τι θα κάνει. Αλλά θα πρέπει να μιλάμε μεταξύ μας. Δεν μπορούμε απλώς να παρακολουθούμε και να περιμένουμε ότι με τον ένα ή τον άλλο τρόπο όλοι θα το κάνουν σωστά. Είμαστε διατεθειμένοι να μάθουμε ο ένας από τον άλλο. Αυτό όμως δεν έχει σχέση με την κυριαρχία μιας χώρας".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Νέο περιτύλιγμα;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="picBoxInlineEven" style="display: block; float: right; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 5px; margin-right: -8px; margin-top: 0px; width: 194px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.dw-world.de/popups/popup_lupe/0,,15698713_ind_1,00.html" style="color: #003282;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img alt="Πιο αυστηρούς κανόνες θέλουν Μέρκελ και Σαρκοζί" border="0" height="109" src="http://www.dw-world.de/image/0,,15654024_1,00.jpg" style="clear: both; display: block; float: left; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; max-width: none;" width="194" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;i class="caption" style="background-color: #f4f4f4; color: #555555; display: block; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; line-height: 1.4em; padding-bottom: 3px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 3px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.dw-world.de/popups/popup_lupe/0,,15698713_ind_1,00.html" style="color: #555555; font-size: 10px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"&gt;Πιο αυστηρούς κανόνες θέλουν Μέρκελ και Σαρκοζί&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Στην πραγματικότητα, εάν εξαιρέσει κανείς το χρεόφρενο, το νέο δημοσιονομικό σύμφωνο δεν είναι κάτι εντελώς καινούριο. Ο αρμόδιος για τις οικονομικές και νομισματικές υποθέσεις κοινοτικός Επίτροπος Όλι Ρεν ισχυρίζεται ότι το 99 % των όσων προβλέπει το νέο σύμφωνο, εμπεριέχεται ήδη στο υπάρχον ευρωπαϊκό δίκαιο. Μόνον οι χώρες που θα υπογράψουν το σύμφωνο θα έχουν το δικαίωμα να λαμβάνουν μελλοντικά βοήθεια από τα ταμεία διάσωσης. Το νέο σύμφωνο αναμένεται να τεθεί σε ισχύ τον επόμενο χρόνο και αφού προηγουμένως έχει επικυρωθεί από τα εθνικά κοινοβούλια.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Πολλοί ειδικοί εκτιμούν ωστόσο ότι το σύμφωνο δεν θα συμβάλει άμεσα στην αντιμετώπιση της παρούσας κρίσης, αλλά ότι θα αποφέρει καρπούς σε βάθος χρόνου. Όπως σημειώνει ο Ζαν Πιζανί-Φερί, από το think-tank των Βρυξελλών Bruegel:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Δεν πρόκειται να υπάρξουν κοινά χρέη εάν δεν μπορεί να ελεγχθεί τι κάνει ο καθένας. Ποιός θα το ελέγχει αυτό όμως; Θα πρέπει να γίνει από ένα θεσμοθετημένο όργανο της ΕΕ ή της ευρωζώνης που θα έχει πολιτική νομιμοποίηση. Αλλά διαπιστώνουμε ακριβώς το αντίθετο. Δεν υπάρχει βούληση για εμβάθυνση της πολιτικής ένωσης στην ευρωζώνη, ειδικά μάλιστα στη Γαλλία".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Αντιδράσεις&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="picBoxInlineUneven" style="display: block; float: left; margin-bottom: 4px; margin-left: -8px; margin-right: 8px; margin-top: 0px; width: 194px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.dw-world.de/popups/popup_lupe/0,,15698713_ind_2,00.html" style="color: #003282;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img alt="Πόσες χώρες θα συμμετέχουν τελικά;" border="0" height="109" src="http://www.dw-world.de/image/0,,15638856_1,00.jpg" style="clear: both; display: block; float: left; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; max-width: none; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" width="194" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;i class="caption" style="background-color: #f4f4f4; color: #555555; display: block; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; line-height: 1.4em; padding-bottom: 3px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 3px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.dw-world.de/popups/popup_lupe/0,,15698713_ind_2,00.html" style="color: #555555; font-size: 10px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"&gt;Πόσες χώρες θα συμμετέχουν τελικά;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Θα πρέπει να σημειωθεί πάντως ότι οι Βρετανοί, που είχαν ήδη προαναγγείλει το βέτο τους, δεν είναι οι μόνοι που αντιστέκονται. Ο πολωνός πρωθυπουργός Τουσκ έχει εκφράσει τις επιφυλάξεις του για την προωθούμενη δημοσιονομική ένωση τονίζοντας ότι θα πρέπει να ληφθούν υπόψη και οι χώρες που δεν είναι μέλη της ευρωζώνης.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Άγνωστος Χ παραμένει και η στάση που θα τηρήσει ο ούγγρος πρωθυπουργός Όρμπαν. Η πλειονότητα των ευρωπαίων ηγετών πάντως επιθυμεί να τεθεί σε ισχύ το νέο σύμφωνο ακόμη κι αν δεν έχει επικυρωθεί από όλες τις χώρες που θα συμμετέχουν. Ποιό θα πρέπει να είναι το «μίνιμουμ συμμετοχής» πάντως, δεν έχει ακόμη αποσαφηνιστεί.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Bernd Riegert / Κώστας Συμεωνίδης&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Υπεύθ. σύνταξης: Γιάννης Παπαδημητρίου&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 13px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="clearing" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; border-width: initial; border-width: initial; clear: both; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 0; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="partNav" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; clear: both; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.792em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="clearing" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; border-width: initial; border-width: initial; clear: both; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; 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color: #3d77e0; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; line-height: 1em; margin-bottom: 4px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;Πολιτική&lt;span class="add" style="font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;29.01.2012&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;h1 style="background-color: white; color: #003282; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 7px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;Ποιος θέλει «επίτροπο» ή «εντεταλμένο» στην Αθήνα;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;div class="partNav" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; clear: both; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.792em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="clearing" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; border-width: initial; border-width: initial; clear: both; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 0; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: white; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;&lt;div class="picBoxDetailTop" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; float: left; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; width: 194px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.dw-world.de/popups/popup_lupe/0,,15701583,00.html" style="color: #333333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="http://www.dw-world.de/image/0,,15687775_1,00.jpg" style="display: block; float: left; margin-bottom: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="captionBox" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;i class="caption" style="background-color: #f4f4f4; color: #555555; display: block; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; line-height: 1.4em; padding-bottom: 3px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 3px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.dw-world.de/popups/popup_lupe/0,,15701583,00.html" style="color: #555555; font-size: 10px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="detailTeaserBox" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; float: left; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; width: 374px;"&gt;&lt;h4 class="detailContentTeasertext" style="color: #333333; font-size: 12px; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;Και ο γερμανικός τύπος επιβεβαιώνει σήμερα την πρόταση για αποστολή για διορισμό ειδικού επιτρόπου για την Ελλάδα.&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="clearing" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; border-width: initial; border-width: initial; clear: both; line-height: 0; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="detailContent" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; border-width: initial; clear: both; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 10px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;&lt;div style="color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 13px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 13px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;«Επίτροπος περικοπών για την Αθήνα;» επιγράφεται σχετικό ρεπορτάζ της εφημερίδας Frankfurter Allgemeine της Φραγκφούρτης, ενώ η Welt του Βερολίνου κυκλοφορεί με το εξής πρωτοσέλιδο: «Το Βερολίνο θέλει τον έλεγχο στον προϋπολογισμό της Αθήνας».&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 13px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;Σύμφωνα με το ρεπορτάζ της Frankfurter Allgemeine ο «επίτροπος για το πρόγραμμα περικοπών» ή «εντεταλμένος της Ε.Ε. για τον προϋπολογισμό» προτείνεται να έχει δικαίωμα συμμετοχής και βέτο στις αποφάσεις που αφορούν το πρόγραμμα σταθεροποίησης της Ελλάδας, ενώ θα αναλάμβανε να εγκαταστήσει και ένα κεντρικό σύστημα ελέγχου όλων των κρατικών δαπανών. Επίσης προτείνεται να ενσωματωθεί ειδική ρήτρα στο ελληνικό δίκαιο, σύμφωνα με την οποία η μείωση του χρέους θα έχει προτεραιότητα απέναντι σε άλλους πολιτικούς στόχους.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 13px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;Ήδη χθες κύκλοι της γερμανικής κυβέρνησης είχαν επιβεβαιώσει στην Deutsche Welle ότι συζητείται να οριστεί ένας «εντεταλμένος προϋπολογισμού» για την Ελλάδα, χωρίς πάντως να επιβεβαιώνουν τις πληροφορίες ότι η πρόταση προέρχεται από το Βερολίνο.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 13px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Αντιδράσεις των γερμανικών κομμάτων&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 13px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="picBoxInlineEven" style="display: block; float: right; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 5px; margin-right: -8px; margin-top: 0px; width: 194px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.dw-world.de/popups/popup_lupe/0,,15701583_ind_1,00.html" style="color: #003282;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img alt="Διίστανται οι απόψεις στους Γερμανούς φιλελεύθερους για την πρόταση περί επιτρόπου." border="0" height="143" src="http://www.dw-world.de/image/0,,15651507_1,00.jpg" style="clear: both; display: block; float: left; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; max-width: none;" width="194" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;i class="caption" style="background-color: #f4f4f4; color: #555555; display: block; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; line-height: 1.4em; padding-bottom: 3px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 3px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.dw-world.de/popups/popup_lupe/0,,15701583_ind_1,00.html" style="color: #555555; font-size: 10px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"&gt;Διίστανται οι απόψεις στους Γερμανούς φιλελεύθερους για την πρόταση περί επιτρόπου.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Σύμφωνα με την Frankfurter Allgemeine την πρόταση περί επιτρόπου υποστηρίζει και ο νέος πρόεδρος του Ευρωκοινοβουλίου Μάρτιν Σουλτς, πρώην επικεφαλής της σοσιαλιστικής ομάδας στις Βρυξέλλες, ο οποίος φέρεται να έχει δηλώσει: «Η Ελλάδα θα πρέπει να ζήσει με το γεγονός ότι εκείνοι που δίνουν πολλά χρήματα για την ανόρθωση της χώρας, πρέπει να συμμετέχουν και στις αποφάσεις για το πώς θα μοιραστούν τα χρήματα αυτά- κάτι που συνεπάγεται περιορισμό της εθνικής κυριαρχίας για συγκεκριμένο χρονικό διάστημα».&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 13px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;Ο επικεφαλής των Φιλελευθέρων και υπουργός Οικονομίας Φίλιπ Ρέσλερ φαίνεται να υποστηρίζει επίσης την πρόταση περί επιτρόπου. Σε συνέντευξή του στην εφημερίδα Bild που θα δημοσιευθεί τη Δευτέρα, ο Γερμανός πολιτικός δηλώνει: «Κατά την υλοποίηση του μεταρρυθμιστικού προγράμματος χρειαζόμαστε καλύτερη ηγεσία και επιτήρηση. Αν οι Έλληνες δεν το καταφέρουν αυτό, τότε η ηγεσία και η επιτήρηση θα πρέπει να δοθούν έξωθεν, για παράδειγμα μέσω της Ε.Ε.». Ωστόσο την ίδια στιγμή ο αντιπρόεδρος της κοινοβουλευτικής ομάδας των Φιλελευθέρων Φλόριαν Τόνκαρ απορρίπτει την πρόταση περί επιτρόπου. «Δεν είναι δυνατόν εκπρόσωποι άλλων χωρών να δίνουν απευθείας εντολές για περικοπές, κατά παράκαμψη των δημοκρατικών θεσμών μίας χώρας» λέει ο Τόνκαρ στην εφημερίδας Frankfurter Allgemeine.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 13px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;Επικριτικός είναι και ο επικεφαλής της κοινοβουλευτικής ομάδας των Πρασίνων Γιούργκεν Τριττίν. «Πρόκειται για κλασσική συζήτηση αντιπερισπασμού που απευθύνεται στην εσωτερική πολιτική σκηνή» υποστηρίζει ο πρώην υπουργός και εξηγεί: «Η καγκελάριος Μέρκελ θέλει να καθησυχάσει τους βουλευτές της, γιατί δεν κατάφερε να υλοποιήσει της υποσχέσεις που τους έδωσε το φθινόπωρο ότι θα επιβάλλονται αυτόματες κυρώσεις στους παραβάτες του νέου συμφώνου δημοσιονομικής πειθαρχίας».&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 13px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;DPA / FAZ / Welt / Γιάννης Παπαδημητρίου&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 13px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Υπεύθ. σύνταξης: Σπύρος Μοσκόβου&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 13px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="clearing" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; border-width: initial; border-width: initial; clear: both; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 0; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="partNav" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; clear: both; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.792em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="clearing" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; 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color: #3d77e0; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; line-height: 1em; margin-bottom: 4px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-transform: uppercase;"&gt;FINANCE&lt;span class="add" style="font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; text-transform: none;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;28.01.2012&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;h1 style="background-color: white; color: #003282; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 7px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;Greece rejects German plan to surrender control over its budget&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;div class="partNav" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; clear: both; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.792em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="clearing" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; border-width: initial; border-width: initial; clear: both; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 0; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: white; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;&lt;div class="picBoxDetailTop" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 50, 130); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; float: left; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; width: 194px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.dw-world.de/popups/popup_lupe/0,,15700716,00.html" style="color: #333333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img alt="A euro" border="0" src="http://www.dw-world.de/image/0,,15687953_1,00.jpg" style="display: block; float: left; margin-bottom: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="captionBox" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 50, 130); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;i class="caption" style="background-color: #f4f4f4; color: #555555; display: block; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; line-height: 1.4em; padding-bottom: 3px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 3px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.dw-world.de/popups/popup_lupe/0,,15700716,00.html" style="color: #555555; font-size: 10px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"&gt;Greek debt talks continued through the weekend&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="detailTeaserBox" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 50, 130); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; float: left; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; width: 374px;"&gt;&lt;h4 class="detailContentTeasertext" style="color: #333333; font-size: 12px; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;Greek officials have flatly refused to consider a German plan that would see it relinquish control over its budget. Greece's leaders, meanwhile, have edged closer to a deal with private investors in ongoing debt talks.&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="clearing" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; border-width: initial; border-width: initial; clear: both; line-height: 0; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="detailContent" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; border-width: initial; clear: both; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 10px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;&lt;div style="color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 13px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div dir="ltr" style="color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 13px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;Greek officials firmly dismissed a German proposal on Saturday for Greece to surrender control over its budget policy to an EU commissioner.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div dir="ltr" style="color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 13px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;It is "the product of a sick imagination" said Anna Diamantopoulou, Education Minister and former European Commissioner, after the Financial Times first reported the proposal made to Germany's eurozone partners on Friday. It was suggested that a commissioner, appointed by the other eurozone finance ministers, would have the power to veto budget decisions made by the Greek government.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div dir="ltr" style="color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 13px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;"Budget consolidation has to be put under a strict steering and control system," the Financial Times quoted the proposal as saying.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div dir="ltr" style="color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 13px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;"Given the disappointing compliance so far, Greece has to accept shifting budgetary sovereignty to the European level for a certain period of time," it said.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div dir="ltr" style="color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 13px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;Greek government spokesman Pantelis Kapsis asserted, however, that after a series of tough financial reforms and more changes on the cards, the government should to retain control of the budgetary decisions.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div dir="ltr" style="color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 13px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;"The government stresses that this responsibility belongs exclusively to the Greek government," Kapsis said. "The government has made a series of steps to improve the effectiveness of the public administration and a closer monitoring of the efforts to achieve fiscal targets."&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div dir="ltr" style="color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 13px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="picBoxInlineEven" style="display: block; float: right; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 5px; margin-right: -8px; margin-top: 0px; width: 194px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.dw-world.de/popups/popup_lupe/0,,15700716_ind_1,00.html" style="color: #003282;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img alt="Charles Dallara, right, and Jean Lemiere from the Institute of International Finance " border="0" height="109" src="http://www.dw-world.de/image/0,,15682156_1,00.jpg" style="clear: both; display: block; float: left; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; max-width: none;" width="194" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;i class="caption" style="background-color: #f4f4f4; color: #555555; display: block; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; line-height: 1.4em; padding-bottom: 3px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 3px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.dw-world.de/popups/popup_lupe/0,,15700716_ind_1,00.html" style="color: #555555; font-size: 10px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"&gt;Negotiators said they expected to have a deal ready next week&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;The European Commission in Brussels came out in support of the Greek government on Saturday, reaffirming its rejection of the proposal.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div dir="ltr" style="color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 13px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;"The Commission is committed to further reinforcing its monitoring capacity and is currently developing its capacity on the ground," said economic affairs spokesman Amadeu Altafaj. Such key decisions, however, "must remain the full responsibility of the Greek government."&lt;/div&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;div dir="ltr" style="color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 13px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;Slow progress&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;div dir="ltr" style="color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 13px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;The revelations came as Greek Prime Minister Lucas Papademos and Finance Minister Evangelos Venizelos emerged confident after lengthy talks with Charles Dallara, the head negotiator for banks and private investors which hold a large portion of Greek government bonds.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div dir="ltr" style="color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 13px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;"We are a step away," Venizelos said, adding that the negotiations aimed at convincing the private lenders to accept a 50 percent writedown on 200 billion euros ($264 billion) of Greek debt were "difficult and delicate."&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div dir="ltr" style="color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 13px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;Dallara and his colleague Jean Lemierre also appeared confident that the negotiations, which have been going on for the past three weeks, were nearing their completion.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div dir="ltr" style="color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 13px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;"Further progress was made, building on the understandings reached yesterday [Friday] on the key legal and technical issues," they said in a joint statement after the meeting adjourned.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div dir="ltr" style="color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 13px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;Reducing the country's debt is a precondition to Greece receiving a crucial second bailout of 130 billion euros. If the negotiations were to fail, Greece would be unable to pay&amp;nbsp;a 14.5-billion-euro bond on March 20, meaning it would default on its debt.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div dir="ltr" style="color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 13px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;Author: Charlotte Chelsom-Pill, Stuart Tiffen (dpa, AFP, AP)&lt;br /&gt;Editor: Martin Kuebler&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 13px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="clearing" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; border-width: initial; border-width: initial; clear: both; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; 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line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;In remarks following an almost three-hour meeting with the heads of the three parties that make up his coalition government Sunday, Papademos said the country's negotiating position was greatly strengthened by the cross-party support.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;A day earlier, Greece and its private sector creditors announced they were on the verge of a deal to write off EUR100 billion worth of the country's debt, pending the outcome of separate talks on the new, multi-billion euro bailout for Athens. In weekend statements, both sides said they expected a deal to be completed next week.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;Effectively, the focus now shifts to a European summit in Brussels Monday where the continent's leaders will sanctify--or not--the terms of the debt restructuring and the new loan. But complicating those discussions are new demands by Germany for greater oversight over Greece's budget affairs, and growing concerns that Greece's funding needs might be bigger than originally thought.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;Over the weekend, it emerged over that Germany was leading a push for tighter control over Greece's budget and economic plans.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;Frustrated with the slow pace of implementation of reforms, a German proposal was circulated last week among euro zone finance ministry officials calling for Athens to cede some control over its budget decisions to Europe in return for a second bailout, one official told Dow Jones Newswires.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;The official said any decision to place Greece's budget process under increased European control would "have to be taken consensually with Greece" and cited the German proposal as "one idea among many under discussion."&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;Greece's finance minister Evangelos Venizelos Sunday pushed back against the proposal, saying Athens had already signed up to an appropriate level of oversight at a summit last October where the outlines of a second bailout package were agreed. He insisted that "Greece alone has, not only the responsibility, but also the incentive to ensure the implementation of the program."&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;A spokesman for European Commissioner for economic affairs Olli Rehn said Brussels would "reinforce" its monitoring role on the ground, but insisted that "executive tasks must remain the full responsibility of the Greek government."&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;At last October's summit, European leaders and the International Monetary Fund agreed to provide Greece with EUR130 billion in fresh financing to cover the country's cash needs through 2015. But the new loan was contingent on a debt write-down plan that would slash Greece's debt ratio to 120% of gross domestic product in 2020 from an unsustainable 160% currently.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;Since then, further deterioration in the Greek economy and a budget deficit that has widened to nearly 10% of GDP could put those projections in doubt. Euro-zone and IMF officials now say Greece may need roughly an extra EUR15 billion.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;But in Athens, the mood Saturday was upbeat. "We really are one step away from a final agreement [on the debt deal]," Venizelos told reporters.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;Throughout the day Saturday, Greece conducted parallel negotiations with the private creditors at the same time as it held talks with European Commission, IMF and European Central Bank officials--known as the troika--over the new loan program.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;A person with direct knowledge of both sets of talks said a formal deal won't be announced until Athens agrees new austerity measures with the troika.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;Without a fresh bailout, Greece won't be able to meet a EUR14.4 billion bond redemption maturing Mar. 20 and could become the first euro-zone member in the 11 year history of the currency bloc to default.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;The key to clinching the debt talks appeared to come after bondholders indicated they would accept lower yields on new Greek debt that Greece will issue to replace its old bonds under the terms of the debt restructuring. According to a source close to the negotiations, the creditors agreed to an average yield of less than 4% over the 30-year maturity of the new bonds.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;That brings the deal in-line with the recent demands made by Greece's eurozone partners.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;"We are close to a finalization of a voluntary PSI (private sector involvement)," the Institute of International Finance, a Washington-based bank lobby representing the creditors, said in a statement Saturday.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;Although the final decision on both the debt deal and the new loan will be made in Brussels, Papademos, who heads a three-party coalition government, met with party leaders Sunday to seek anew their commitment to the new loan terms.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;In a statement following the meeting, Papademos warned Greeks that the country will need to take further steps to fix its public finances and overhaul its economy, but that Greece's political leaders are united behind the effort.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;"The negotiations are not easy. Despite the progress that has contributed to the stabilization of the economy; despite the significant changes and the great sacrifices of the citizens; missed goals and the delayed implementation of policies has led our partners to ask for further commitments and terms," he said.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;"The political leaders and I find ourselves in absolute agreement over the need to continue the negotiations and the positions that we will support," he added.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;pre style="font-size: 1.2em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;-By Alkman Granitsas, Costas Paris and Laurence Norman, Dow Jones Newswires;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span 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background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;Το δεκασέλιδο υπόμνημα της Τρόϊκα αναφορικά με τα μέτρα που πρέπει να υιοθετηθούν από τη χώρα μας, πριν από το νέο Πρόγραμμα και μετά από αυτό, ως πολιτικές που πρέπει να το συνοδεύουν, είναι ένα κείμενο επί του οποίου κανείς μπορεί να πει πολλά.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;Ας επικεντρωθώ επί του παρόντος σε μερικές παρατηρήσεις.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;Ξεκινώ με τις συμβολικού χαρακτήρα:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;Η Κυβέρνηση μιας κυρίαρχης, δυτικής χώρας, που είναι μέλος της Ε.Ε , της Ο.Ν.Ε. &amp;amp; του ΝΑΤΟ, λαμβάνει από τους Δανειστές της, ένα δεκασέλιδο κείμενο, διασάφησης, υποτίθεται, των επερχόμενων πολιτικών στο πλαίσιο του Νέου Προγράμματος, που καλείται να εφαρμόσει και επικυρώσει, μέσω της Βουλής της. Και αποδέχεται αυτή η Κυβέρνηση, να μοιράσει στα μέλη του υπουργικού της συμβουλίου ένα τέτοιο κείμενο, το οποίο δεν έχει συνταχθεί ή έστω μεταφραστεί στην επίσημη γλώσσα του κράτους, του οποίου είναι Κυβέρνηση. Μοιράζεται δε σε υπουργούς και στελέχη, στην αγγλική, ωσάν να μην έχουμε Διϋπουργική Συνεδρίαση υπό τον Πρωθυπουργό της Ελλάδος, αλλά συνεδρίαση του Δ.Σ. κάποιας πολυεθνικής πολυμετοχικής εταιρίας κάπου στο εξωτερικό.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;Και να ήταν μόνο αυτό. Ανοίγοντας να διαβάσει κανείς αυτό το πόνημα, μπας και καταλάβει τι εισηγήσεις υπάρχουν προς την ελληνική κυβέρνηση, διαπιστώνει ότι σχεδόν οι μισές εισηγήσεις, είτε είναι αόριστες, μεσσιανικού χαρακτήρα, παραδοχές της υπέρτατης αλήθειας της Τρόϊκα, είτε έχουν κάπου, εντός της διατύπωσής τους, την περιβόητη φράση «to be defined, to be determined». Και επ’ αυτού του κειμένου, γίνεται κουβέντα, συγκροτούνται ομάδες εργασίας και διενεργούνται συναντήσεις.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;Μόνο και μόνο για τα ανωτέρω δύο σημεία (κείμενο που δίδεται στα Αγγλικά και μόνο &amp;amp; αοριστία προτάσεων) κάθε σοβαρή κυβέρνηση κυρίαρχης χώρας με στοιχειώδη αυτοσεβασμό και επίγνωση της θέσης της τόσο έναντι των δανειστών όσο κυρίως έναντι του λαού της, θα το επέστρεφε πάραυτα πίσω με τον χαρακτηρισμό «ΑΠΑΡΑΔΕΚΤΟ».&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;Πάμε όμως στη ουσία. Σε πολλά λέει τα αυτονόητα. Μπορεί να τα λέει χωρίς ιδιαίτερες λεπτομέρειες, αλλά πάντως λέει πράγματα που εν πάσει περιπτώσει, δεν είναι σατανικά, δεν είναι παράλογα και δεν νομίζω ότι πρέπει χωρίς δεύτερη κουβέντα να τα απορρίψει κανείς. Λέει όμως και κάποια άλλα, τα οποία γεννούν ερωτήματα. Σταχυολογώ μερικά.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;ol start="1" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 1.5em; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;&lt;li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;Γιατί, ενώ φαίνεται λογική (για λόγους οικονομίας κλίμακας και παρακολούθησης) η απαίτηση για να καθιερωθεί νομοθετικά ένα ταμείο επικουρικών συντάξεων, επιμένουν σε, γύρευε με τι δημοσιονομικό αποτέλεσμα, νομοθετική περικοπή των επικουρικών συντάξεων; Το έχουν μετρήσει άραγε, με μελέτη;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;Γιατί ο περιορισμός των εισακτέων στις παραγωγικές σχολές στρατού και σωμάτων ασφαλείας θα προσδώσει δημοσιονομική ωφέλεια; Μήπως διότι θα ενταθεί το πρόβλημα της αστυνόμευσης και της ασφάλειας και θα πάρουμε όλοι τις καραμπίνες και άρα θα εισπραχθεί περισσότερος ΦΠΑ από τις πωλήσεις όπλων;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;Γιατί συνιστά μέσο βελτίωσης της διαχείρισης των δημοσίων οικονομικών η ενίσχυση του ρόλου και της «ανεξαρτησίας» της ΕΛΣΤΑΤ; Φοβούνται κάτι και θέλουν να προστατεύσουν εκλεκτούς;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;Γιατί δεν μας λένε ποιο θα είναι το σχέδιο για την Αγροτική Τράπεζα (ΑΤΕ) αλλά το αφήνουν για ευθετότερο χρόνο να το διευκρινίσουν; Άραγε δεν ενδιαφέρονται για τις τύχες του πιστωτικού ιδρύματος εκείνου το οποίο έχει μέσω εμπράγματων εξασφαλίσεων (ενέχυρα ή προσημειώσεις υποθηκών) σχεδόν το σύνολο του αγροτικού και κτηνοτροφικού κεφαλαίου της χώρας; Ή μήπως ενδιαφέρονται τόσο πολύ, που θα τα κουβεντιάσουμε στο μιλητό και υπό άλλες καταστάσεις;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;Γιατί αφού η Τράπεζα της Ελλάδος και το Υπουργείο Οικονομικών θα κάνει τα πάντα για τη σωτηρία και διατήρηση του Τραπεζικού τομέα της χώρας, χρειάζεται επιπροσθέτως να νομοθετηθούν ειδικές ρυθμίσεις που να επιτρέπουν την μείωση αμοιβών προσωπικού στις Τράπεζες αλλά και ο περιορισμός προσωπικού (σ.σ. αλλιώς, απόλυση); Δεν θα είναι αρκετή η δημοσιονομική στήριξη, τα Core Tier, οι κοινές, μη έχουσες δικαίωμα ψήφου, μετοχές και τα άλλα μέτρα στήριξης; Γιατί;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;Τι θα προσδώσει η προσφορά, έτσι, σαν να λέμε βάλε δύο κιλά τυρί, από το κράτος, για ιδιωτικοποίηση δύο – τριών ΔΕΚΟ; Ποιες θα είναι αυτές; Με ποια κριτήρια θα επιλεγούν; Ποια ενδεχομένως η στρατηγική τους σημασία για τη χώρα; Ποιος ξέρει…! Ας τις βγάλουμε στο σφυρί και βλέπουμε. Τουλάχιστον θα φτιάξει το επενδυτικό κλίμα.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;Είναι καταπληκτικό ότι, ενώ τίθεται η αποδοχή της κυβέρνησης για την νομοθετική καθιέρωση της ελαστικοποίησης των μισθών, ως προαπαιτούμενο για το νέο Πρόγραμμα, οι καταπληκτικοί τύποι της Τρόϊκα, δεν είναι έτοιμοι να μας πουν πως και σε ποιο ύψος την εννοούν. Θα τα βρούμε μετά, λένε. Και τους ακούτε ακόμα;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;Αμ’ το άλλο; Θα μειώσουμε τις ασφαλιστικές εισφορές κατά 5% αλλά το πώς και το πότε, άδηλο.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;Για την απελευθέρωση των επαγγελμάτων θα έχετε ακούσει. Εκτός από τις τροποποιήσεις στα Νομοθετικά διατάγματα για την απελευθέρωση φορτηγών κλπ. εμένα μου κάνει εντύπωση γιατί θα αποτελέσει μέγιστο μέτρο δημοσιονομικής προσαρμογής και επιτυχίας δημοσιονομικού ελέγχου, η κατάργηση των κατώτατων αμοιβών δικηγόρων με παγία αντιμισθία. Δεν μιλώ για το ζήτημα της κατάργησης της χωρικότητας της κατά τόπο αρμοδιότητας κάθε δικηγορικού συλλόγου, μέτρο, που μαζί με την ελεύθερη ίδρυση δικηγορικών εταιριών, ουσιαστικά θα εκμηδενίσει τον χαρακτήρα του ελεύθερου επαγγελματία δικηγόρου στην επαρχία.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;Αφού μας λένε εμμέσως ότι θα πουλήσει η ΔΕΗ λιγνητικές μονάδες, μαθαίνουμε ότι η πώληση και υδροηλεκτρικών εργοστασίων, της ΔΕΗ βεβαίως – βεβαίως, θα δημιουργήσει ανταγωνισμό…! Α και μια και μιλάμε για ενέργεια. Θα αναθεωρηθεί το πλαίσιο υποστήριξης των Ανανεώσιμων πηγών Ενέργειας ώστε να μειωθεί η επίπτωσή στα δημόσια οικονομικά (Μήπως εννοούν την επιδότηση της κιλοβατώρας από ΑΠΕ;)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;Αύξηση αντικειμενικών αξιών κατά 25% αναδρομικά από 01/01/2012. Ε, το τέλος ακινήτων, να μη πω που θα φτάσει, έτσι;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;Και το κερασάκι. Οι μεγάλες περικοπές, έχουν σκεφτεί οι φωστήρες της Τρόϊκα, να γίνουν στην άμυνα (τώρα που θέλουμε υποτίθεται να κηρύξουμε ΑΟΖ και να εκμεταλλευτούμε τους υδρογονάνθρακες μας στην Α. Μεσόγειο), στην υγεία (όπου αντί να εισηγηθούν την ταχεία επαναπροώθηση 1 εκ λάθρο που επιβαρύνουν το σύστημα υγείας με τις ασθένειές τους, το ασφαλιστικό με την ανασφάλιστη εργασία τους κλπ, κλείνουν νοσοκομεία, δημιουργούν ελλείψεις προσωπικού και υλικών, υποβαθμίζουν και κάνουν ακριβότερη την παροχή υπηρεσιών υγείας για τον γενικό πληθυσμό) και από το κλείσιμο επιχειρήσεων του Δημοσίου (ΔΕΚΟ) &amp;nbsp;και απόλυση προσωπικού (όπου οι έννοιες «ύφεση» και «ανεργία» είναι κάποιες φανταστικές έννοιες, που δεν σχετίζονται με αυτή την πολιτική, διότι κατά τους φωστήρες, οι απολυμένοι του Δημοσίου τάχαμου θα απορροφηθούν, ας πούμε, από τον Ιδιωτικό Τομέα. Σε κάποια άλλη ζωή ίσως…! Δεν υπάρχει Ιδιωτικός Τομέας στην Ελλάδα του 2012. Πέθανε ύστερα από 2 χρόνια λάθη και ανοησίες)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;Με αυτά και με αυτά, θα ήθελα να σημειώσω και κάτι άλλο, σε πολιτικό επίπεδο.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;Οι καλοί δανειστές, θα μας ζητήσουν δεσμεύσεις. Θα ζητήσουν συνευθύνη. Θα ζητήσουν συνυπογραφές και υποταγή στα αόριστα, ανεφάρμοστα, απροσδιόριστα και εντελώς καβαλημένα σχέδια και πολιτικές τους, εις το διηνεκές;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;Τότε ο Αρχηγός της Αξιωματικής Αντιπολίτευσης έχει δύο επιλογές.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;Η μία είναι να αφήσει να διαπραγματευτεί μόνος του ο άχρωμος Πρωθυπουργός, ο άνθρωπος που μιλάει μεν ελληνικά, πλην όμως, αν όχι απόλυτα, τουλάχιστον σε σημαντικό βαθμό, προστατεύει και συμφέροντα ξένων. Και έτσι να πάρει αυτός το ανάθεμα. Άλλωστε, ένα αόριστο έγγραφο δεσμεύσεων, αναφορικά με ένα αόριστο νέο Πρόγραμμα, αλλά με μια πολύ ορισμένη και αρκούντως περιγραφική και λεπτομερή δανειακή σύμβαση, είναι συνδυασμός που από μόνος του μπορεί να θάψει πολιτικές καριέρες. &amp;nbsp;Με μια τέτοια εξέλιξη, η Ελλάδα θα μείνει μεν κάπως ζωντανή για λίγο, αλλά ο χρόνος της θα είναι μετρημένος από τις … Δάνειες Δυνάμεις και ο λαός της θα παραμείνει σκυφτός και απογοητευμένος από τους πολιτικούς του που δεν έδωσαν την μάχη, δεν δικαίωσαν τις προσδοκίες της, δεν έκαναν κάτι άλλο, δεν έδωσαν ελπίδα, δεν έκαναν την υπέρβαση, δεν έδωσαν την συμβολική μάχη έστω.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;Η άλλη λύση είναι , να μαζέψει μόνος του, με τις δικές του δυνάμεις και την αξία του, από αυτό το κατάπτυστο τελεσίγραφο των 10 σελίδων, τα πέντε δέκα πράγματα που όντως είναι ορθά και λογικά, να βάλει μέσα το δικό του οικονομικό μίγμα, να αναλύσει την πολιτική του, με στόχους και χρονοδιαγράμματα, σε βάθος τετραετίας,, να κοτσάρει φαρδιά – πλατιά από κάτω την υπογραφή του και να το στείλει στον Πρωθυπουργό, με ένα σημείωμα: «&lt;em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;Αυτό είναι κύριε Πρωθυπουργέ το πλαίσιο πολιτικής που στηρίζω, επ’ αυτού μπορώ να δεσμευτώ και να υπογράψω έναντι των Δανειστών, και αυτό θα θέσω στη βάσανο της κρίσης των πολιτών της χώρας στις εκλογές που συμφωνήσαμε να γίνουν σύντομα&lt;/em&gt;». Τελεία και παύλα.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;Να δει και ο κόσμος ότι όπου χρειάζεται υποχώρηση, λελογισμένες κινήσεις τακτικής και διπλωματία, μπορεί να τις κάνει. Όπου όμως χρειάζεται να μείνει ανυποχώρητος, μένει ανυποχώρητος και αντιδρά. Ας κάνει μετά ο Πρωθυπουργός και οι Δανειστές ό,τι νομίζουν.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;Κάθε δε άλλη προτροπή, παραίνεση, απειλή, εκβιασμό, ή προσβολή, Δανειστών, Γερμανών, Γάλλων, Βησιγότθων, Τραπεζιτών, ή άλλων απλών, ντόπιων και ξένων, σφουγγοκολαρίων όλων των ανωτέρω, να την γράφει εκεί που δεν παίρνει μελάνι και να την επιστρέφει στον αποστολέα της ως «ΑΠΑΡΑΔΕΚΤΗ». Και όταν το κάνει, να φωνάζει δημοσιογράφους στη Συγγρού και να το λέει ο ίδιος. Όχι με δελτίο Τύπου.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;Μετά, ελάτε να μου πείτε για δημοσκοπήσεις, κομματική ισχύ, κυβερνησιμότητα, συσπείρωση και αποφασιστικότητα. Και δείτε μετά τα μάτια των συμπολιτών, συγχωριανών και συγκατοίκων σας, όταν κουβεντιάζετε στο καφενείο ή στην αυλή του σπιτιού! Φλόγες θα πετούνε, έτοιμοι θα είναι για μάχη και αγώνα να στήσουν πάλι από την αρχή την αρχέγονη χώρα τους. 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background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;&lt;strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;Η Ελλάδα δέσμια μιας άπληστης ελίτ&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;Ποια ομοιότητα μπορεί να έχει ο βιομηχανικός αέρας του Μανχάιμ με τη διαύγεια ενός ηλιόλουστου πρωινού στη Σαντορίνη;&amp;nbsp; Καμία.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;Αυτή η μικρή, πλην ουσιαστική, παραδοχή έχει εφαρμογή σε ένα πλήρες φάσμα της οικονομικής μας δραστηριότητας.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;Η Ελλάδα είναι μια χώρα ευλογημένη,&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;προικισμένη με όλες τις ομορφιές της γης&lt;/strong&gt;.&amp;nbsp; Δεν είναι δυνατόν αυτή η χώρα να βρίσκεται αντιμέτωπη με τη χρεοκοπία.&amp;nbsp; Κάτι δεν πάει καλά.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;Και όμως.&amp;nbsp; Η χώρα μας είναι δυστυχώς&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;δέσμια μιας άπληστης ελίτ&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;που καταρρέει και που εκφράζεται κυρίως μέσα από τη διαπλοκή ενός τριγώνου&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;Τραπεζιτών – Εργολαβοκαναλαρχών – Πολιτικών&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;και ενός πεθαμένου οικονομικού μοντέλου που επιμένει&lt;strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;να μεταφέρει βίαια πόρους από το κοινωνικό κράτος στις τράπεζες&lt;/strong&gt;, από τις μικρομεσαίες επιχειρήσεις στο διεθνές κεφάλαιο.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;Διανύοντας τον 5&lt;sup style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; bottom: 1ex; font-size: 10px; height: 0px; line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;ο&lt;/sup&gt;&amp;nbsp;χρόνο της ύφεσης, είμαστε πιο ώριμοι από ποτέ, ώστε να διαπιστώσουμε τις προφανείς αδυναμίες και αγκυλώσεις μας.&amp;nbsp; Δεν θα μπω στον πειρασμό να αριθμήσω&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;τα λάθη της πολιτικής ηγεσίας, ούτε τις πρόδηλες ευθύνες των φαύλων προσώπων που επιλέξαμε για κυβερνήτες&lt;/strong&gt;.&amp;nbsp; Θα προσπαθήσω να παραμείνω στους οικονομικούς όρους.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;&lt;strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;Το πρόβλημα ξεκινάει από 2 σαθρούς πυλώνες:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;ol style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 1.5em; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;&lt;li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;Το δυσβάσταχτο&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;χρέος&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;που συσσωρεύτηκε αψήφιστα κατά τη διάρκεια της μεταπολίτευσης&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;Το καρκίνωμα των&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;τραπεζών&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;που καταβροχθίζει τα υγιή κύτταρα της οικονομίας (μικρομεσαίες επιχειρήσεις) και απειλεί με&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;ξαφνικό θάνατο&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;τη χώρα&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;Όσο δεν λύνουμε δυναμικά αυτά τα δύο προβλήματα, η χώρα μας, αν και ευλογημένη, θα είναι&lt;strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;δέσμια των ορέξεων&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;του κάθε ξιπασμένου χαρτογιακά, ένθεν κακείθεν του Ατλαντικού.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;&lt;strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;Το χρέος&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;Έχουμε κάνει αναρίθμητες συζητήσεις για το πρόβλημα του χρέους και τις πιθανές λύσεις του.&amp;nbsp; Η γενικότερη αντίληψη, που τελευταία κερδίζει έδαφος ακόμα και σε θεσμικούς κύκλους,&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;είναι ότι το&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;PSI&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;δεν αποτελεί αυτό που λέμε ριζική λύση&lt;/strong&gt;.&amp;nbsp; Θα συμφωνήσω απόλυτα.&amp;nbsp; Το χειρότερο με το PSI δεν είναι, ούτε το Αγγλικό δίκαιο, ούτε το μνημόνιο που συνοδεύει την αποικιοκρατική σύμβαση.&amp;nbsp; Το χειρότερο είναι ότι&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;θα επιτείνει την αβεβαιότητα γύρω από το χρέος και δεν θα καταφέρει να αναχαιτίσει την ύφεση&lt;/strong&gt;, που θα συνεχίσει να μας επισκέπτεται με μαθηματική ακρίβεια, για πολλά χρόνια.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;Η λύση είναι μια στιβαρή, αποφασιστική αναδιάρθρωση&lt;strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;, ένα δομικό&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;Hard&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;Default&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;στο 90% τουλάχιστον όλων των ομολόγων που έχουν εκδοθεί με βάση το Ελληνικό δίκαιο.&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp; Η δυναμική αυτή λύση θα κλείσει τα στόματα των αγορών (οι οποίες θα απευθυνθούν στο επόμενο θύμα) και θα καταστήσει οριστικά και αμετάκλητα το χρέος μας βιώσιμο. &amp;nbsp;Κάθε συζήτηση περί επιστροφής στη δραχμή ή περί νέας αναδιάρθρωσης θα σταματήσει και η οικονομία θα μπορέσει να σταθεροποιηθεί και να ανασυνταχθεί.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;Φυσικά η λύση αυτή προϋποθέτει παράλληλα μια&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;δυναμική φορολογική πολιτική&lt;/strong&gt;(αποφορολόγηση) και τη δημιουργία ενός&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;ελλείμματος&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;το οποίο θα κατευθυνθεί στοχευμένα στην&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;ανάπτυξη&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;και θα χρηματοδοτηθεί είτε από τους εταίρους μας, είτε από τη χώρα – στρατηγικό εταίρο που θα επιλεγεί για την εξόρυξη των&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;υδρογονανθράκων&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;&lt;strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;Α. Αποφορολόγηση&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;Μια δυναμική πολιτική, στη βάση των πρόσφατων ανακοινώσεων της Ν.Δ. για τη φορολογία, θα δώσει τις απαραίτητες ανάσες σε ιδιώτες και επιχειρήσεις και μια μικρή ώθηση στην κατανάλωση.&amp;nbsp; Επιπλέον η σταθερότητα του φορολογικού συστήματος, ο εξορθολογισμός του (φθηνότερη ενέργεια, φθηνότερος τουρισμός, φθηνότερες μεταβιβάσεις ακινήτων) και η εξάλειψη κινδύνων όπως η επιστροφή στη δραχμή και η πιστωτική συρρίκνωση,&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;θα επαναφέρουν το ενδιαφέρον των επενδυτών&lt;/strong&gt;, Ελλήνων και ξένων σε παραγωγικούς τομείς, όπου η Ελλάδα διαθέτει στρατηγικά πλεονεκτήματα (τουρισμός, βιολογική γεωργία, ΑΠΕ, προϊόντα διατροφής κ.α.).&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;&lt;strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;Β. Η σημασία του ελλείμματος στην ανάπτυξη&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;Όσο προσπαθούμε να μηδενίσουμε ένα μεγάλο έλλειμμα και ταυτόχρονα να επιτύχουμε θετικούς ρυθμούς ανάπτυξης, απλώς&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;ματαιοπονούμε&lt;/strong&gt;.&amp;nbsp; Αυτά τα πράγματα συμβαίνουν μόνο σε τευτονικά παραμύθια και σίγουρα όχι στις πλάτες ενός λαού&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;με παράδοση στην επιχειρηματικότητα και τη δημιουργική σκέψη&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;(εδώ μετράει και η διαύγεια του τοπίου).&amp;nbsp; Τα κράτη λειτουργούν όπως οι επιχειρήσεις.&amp;nbsp; Μια επιχείρηση χρειάζεται να δανειστεί, να επενδύσει σε παραγωγικές δραστηριότητες για να παρουσιάσει στη συνέχεια κέρδη και ανάπτυξη.&amp;nbsp; Δεν είναι δυνατόν να ζητάμε από μια οποιαδήποτε επιχείρηση να περικόπτει τις δαπάνες της, να μηδενίζει τις επενδύσεις της και να αναμένει θετικά αποτελέσματα.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;Το ίδιο συμβαίνει και με τα κράτη.&amp;nbsp; Πρέπει όμως να είμαστε πολύ προσεκτικοί στο που θα κατευθύνουμε τα απαιτούμενα δάνεια.&amp;nbsp; Πρέπει ταυτόχρονα να δημιουργήσουμε&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;παραγωγικές επενδύσεις&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;στους τομείς που προανέφερα,&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;αλλά και να στηρίξουμε την ιδιωτική κατανάλωση και την εργασία.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;Όχι λοιπόν άμεσες απολύσεις στο δημόσιο (αλλά κανόνας 1/5), όχι μειώσεις μισθών και συντάξεων, όχι αύξηση της φορολογίας.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;Πολλοί πέφτουν στην παγίδα ότι μετά από ένα βίαιο κούρεμα, η χώρα μας θα είναι αποκλεισμένη από τις αγορές.&amp;nbsp; Πράγματι κάτι τέτοιο είναι πολύ πιθανόν να συμβεί για τους επόμενους 18 μήνες.&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;Ωστόσο η Ελλάδα είναι μέλος της ευρωπαϊκής ένωσης και έχει προνομιακή πρόσβαση σε χρηματοδοτικά εργαλεία&lt;/strong&gt;.&amp;nbsp; Επίσης ποσά της τάξεως των 20δις ετησίως που θα χρειαστούμε μέχρι την οριστική αναδιάταξη της οικονομίας, δεν είναι δύσκολο να βρεθούν&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;μέσω διακρατικών δανείων ή ακόμα και μέσω εσωτερικού δανεισμού&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;&lt;strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;Το τραπεζικό καρκίνωμα&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;Όσο οι τράπεζες δεν κάνουν τη δουλειά για την οποία εφευρέθηκαν, η οικονομία δεν πρόκειται να πάρει μπροστά.&amp;nbsp; Όσα πακέτα διάσωσης και να έρθουν, όσα PSI, όσες ανακεφαλαιοποιήσεις&lt;strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;, το παιχνίδι παίζεται πάντα στην πραγματική οικονομία.&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp; Και η πραγματική οικονομία χρειάζεται ρευστό εδώ και τώρα, όσο ποτέ άλλοτε.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;Δεν είναι δυνατόν να περιμένουμε νέες μονάδες παραγωγής ελαιολάδου, χωρίς ένα τέτοιο εγχείρημα να μπορεί να χρηματοδοτηθεί από υγιείς τράπεζες.&amp;nbsp; Δεν είναι δυνατόν να δημιουργήσουμε νέα ξενοδοχεία, μικρά ή μεγάλα,&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;χωρίς τη μετακίνηση πόρων από τους καταθέτες στους επιχειρηματίες.&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp; Και δυστυχώς είναι παγκοίνως γνωστό ότι η κεφαλαιακή ανεπάρκεια των τραπεζών μας, αποτελεί τροχοπέδη για οποιαδήποτε αναπτυξιακή ενέργεια.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;Έχουμε σπαταλήσει δισεκατομμύρια για να διατηρήσουμε νεκροζώντανες τις τράπεζες, ενώ θα μπορούσαμε&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;με τα μισά χρήματα&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;να αναδιατάξουμε την οικονομία και να δημιουργήσουμε πλούτο και θέσεις απασχόλησης.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;Η λύση βρίσκεται στα πόδια μας, έχει ήδη νομοθετηθεί και αναμένει την πολιτική απόφαση:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;Οι τράπεζες θα βάλουν οριστικά λουκέτο, η μία μετά την άλλη, καθώς θα αφεθούν αβοήθητες, όπως οποιαδήποτε άλλη επιχείρηση.&amp;nbsp; Καθώς οι μέτοχοι θα αδυνατούν να ανταπεξέλθουν στις κεφαλαιακές ανάγκες των ιδρυμάτων τους,&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;θα τίθενται στη διάθεση του υπουργείου οικονομικών.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;Οι τράπεζες θα τίθενται σε εκκαθάριση, ενώ το υγιές ενεργητικό, καταθέσεις, δάνεια, χρεόγραφα κ.λπ θα μεταβιβάζονται σε μια νέα κρατική τράπεζα.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;Η νέα τράπεζα θα είναι απόλυτα υγιής και θα χρηματοδοτεί με κανόνες την αναδιάταξη της οικονομίας.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;Παράλληλα θα υπάρξει&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;πλήρης διαγραφή των λιστών του Τειρεσία&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;(αμνηστία) &amp;nbsp;και σε όλα τα ιδιωτικά δάνεια θα επιβληθεί&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;κούρεμα&lt;/strong&gt;, ανάλογο με τις νέες οικονομικές δυνατότητες του δανειολήπτη, κάτι σαν μαζική εξωδικαστική εφαρμογή του νόμου Κατσέλη, με προέκταση και&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;στα στεγαστικά δάνεια&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;Ειδικό δικαστικό σώμα που θα συσταθεί, θα εξετάσει όλες τις υποθέσεις πλειστηριασμών από τον Οκτώβριο του 2008,&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;αποδίδοντας πίσω στους δικαιούχους ακίνητα και επιχειρήσεις που χάθηκαν λόγω απληστίας των τρωκτικών.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;Οι δύο αυτές δυναμικές λύσεις, σε χρέος και τράπεζες, &amp;nbsp;θα λύσουν δια παντός το οικονομικό πρόβλημα και&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;θα επαναφέρουν πολύ γρήγορα τη χώρα σε θετικούς ρυθμούς ανάπτυξης.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;Από εκεί και πέρα θα πρέπει και η νέα κυβέρνηση, διδασκόμενη από τα λάθη του παρελθόντος, να διαχειριστεί&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;συνετά&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;την οικονομία, να αποφύγει τις άσκοπες σπατάλες στο δημόσιο τομέα,&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;την πελατειακή νοοτροπία&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;και την αλόγιστη χρήση του εργαλείου που ονομάζεται έλλειμμα.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;Μακάρι να μπορούσαμε να φέρουμε το χρόνο πίσω στο 2008 και να διορθώναμε όσα λάθη έγιναν.&amp;nbsp; Μακάρι να μπορούσαμε να αποπληρώσουμε τις υποχρεώσεις μας, να εξυγιάνουμε τις τράπεζες και να σταθεροποιήσουμε την ανάπτυξη.&amp;nbsp; Δυστυχώς έγιναν λάθη και παραλείψεις.&amp;nbsp; Μπλέξαμε στα νύχια του ΔΝΤ και εμπιστευθήκαμε τις συνταγές της Τρόικας.&amp;nbsp; Σήμερα δεν κινδυνεύει μόνο η υπόσταση της πατρίδας, δεν απειλείται μόνο η εθνική μας ακεραιότητα&lt;strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;.&amp;nbsp; Σήμερα απειλείται πάνω από όλα ο συνεκτικός κρίκος τους έθνους μας, η ελληνική οικογένεια&lt;/strong&gt;.&amp;nbsp; Αγγίζουμε επικίνδυνα τα όρια της φτώχειας και της απόγνωσης και η ‘’λύση’’ που μας προσφέρεται είναι ταπεινωτική και μας εξαθλιώνει.&amp;nbsp; Και το πιο σημαντικό είναι ότι&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;δεν μας δίνει ούτε μια χαραμάδα ελπίδας για το μέλλον.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;Ήρθε η ώρα για λύσεις δυναμικές και αποφασιστικές,&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;δεν θα υπάρξει δεύτερη ευκαιρία.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;&lt;strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; 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color: #3d77e0; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; line-height: 1em; margin-bottom: 4px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;Οικονομία&lt;span class="add" style="font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;25.01.2012&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;h1 style="background-color: white; color: #003282; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 7px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;Σημαντικό το αποτέλεσμα του PSI για το 2ο πακέτο στήριξης&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;div class="partNav" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; 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float: left; margin-bottom: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="captionBox" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;i class="caption" style="background-color: #f4f4f4; color: #555555; display: block; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; line-height: 1.4em; padding-bottom: 3px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 3px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.dw-world.de/popups/popup_lupe/0,,15688317,00.html" style="color: #555555; font-size: 10px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="detailTeaserBox" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; float: left; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; width: 374px;"&gt;&lt;h4 class="detailContentTeasertext" style="color: #333333; font-size: 12px; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;Υπέρ της αύξησης των κεφαλαίων των μηχανισμών στήριξης προκειμένου να ενισχυθούν οι δανειοδοτικές δυνατότητές τους τάσσεται η γενική διευθύντρια του Διεθνούς Νομισματικού Ταμείου Κριστίν Λαγκάρντ&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="clearing" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; 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padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 13px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;Μιλώντας στη γερμανική ραδιοφωνία (Deutschlandfunk), η επικεφαλής του ΔΝΤ τόνισε ότι η δημιουργία ενός μεγαλύτερου τοίχους προστασίας εκ μέρους των Ευρωπαίων είναι βασική προϋπόθεση για να βάλει από την πλευρά του και το ταμείο πιο βαθιά το χέρι στη τσέπη. Όλα δείχνουν ότι η διαχείριση της κρίσης χρέους εισέρχεται σε μια καθοριστική φάση. Παρά τις πιέσεις και τις διαβεβαιώσεις, πολλοί αναλυτές εκφράζουν αμφιβολίες για το εάν το τέλος του 2012 βρει την Ελλάδα στην ευρωζώνη. Η επικεφαλής του ΔΝΤ αντιμετωπίζει, πάντως,&amp;nbsp;με μεγαλύτερη αισιοδοξία τα πράγματα.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 13px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;«Έχω αποφασίσει να αντιμετωπίζω θετικά τα πράγματα. Οι πολιτικοί ηγέτες διαθέτουν και τα εργαλεία και τα απαιτούμενα μέτρα για να διαχειριστούν τα πράγματα και να επαναφέρουν την ευρωζώνη στο δρόμο της βιωσιμότητας, ο οποίος σε τελική ανάλυση θα ενισχύσει την ίδια την ευρωζώνη. Θα πρέπει όμως να γίνουν ακόμη πολλά», υπογράμμισε η επικεφαλής του ΔΝΤ και πρόσθεσε: «Θα πρέπει να ενισχυθεί η ανάπτυξη, ενώ το τείχος προστασίας θα πρέπει να γίνει πιο συμπαγές. Η ευρωπαϊκή ολοκλήρωση θα πρέπει να τελειοποιηθεί. Και με χαροποιεί το γεγονός ότι οι υπουργοί Οικονομικών της ευρωζώνης εντείνουν τις διαπραγματεύσεις τους για το δημοσιονομικό σύμφωνο, το οποίο είναι προϋπόθεση για περισσότερη κοινή ευθύνη. Πρόκειται για γεγονός μεγάλης σημασίας».&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 13px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;«Είναι πολλοί οι δρόμοι που οδηγούν στη Ρώμη»&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 13px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="picBoxInlineEven" style="display: block; float: right; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 5px; margin-right: -8px; margin-top: 0px; width: 194px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.dw-world.de/popups/popup_lupe/0,,15688317_ind_1,00.html" style="color: #003282;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img alt="Η Κριστίν Λαγκάρντ με τη καγκελάριο 'Αγκελα Μέρκελ" border="0" height="109" src="http://www.dw-world.de/image/0,,15674442_1,00.jpg" style="clear: both; display: block; float: left; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; max-width: none;" width="194" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;i class="caption" style="background-color: #f4f4f4; color: #555555; display: block; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; line-height: 1.4em; padding-bottom: 3px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 3px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.dw-world.de/popups/popup_lupe/0,,15688317_ind_1,00.html" style="color: #555555; font-size: 10px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"&gt;Η Κριστίν Λαγκάρντ με τη καγκελάριο 'Αγκελα Μέρκελ&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Αναφερόμενη στην ανάγκη αναδιάρθρωσης του ελληνικού χρέους προκειμένου αυτό να γίνει βιώσιμη η κα Λαγκάρντ υπογράμμισε ότι η συμμετοχή του ιδιωτικού τομέα θα πρέπει να είναι ουσιαστική. «Δεν θέλω να δεσμευθώ μιλώντας για συγκεκριμένα ποσοστά. Υπάρχουν πολλοί τρόποι να μειώσει κανείς το χρέος. Είναι πολλοί οι δρόμοι που οδηγούν στη Ρώμη. Θα πρέπει κανείς να εξετάσει λεπτομερώς κάθε γραμμή και παράγραφο της συμφωνίας. Αλλά δεν συμμετέχω στις διαπραγματεύσεις αυτές. Εδώ συζητούν οι πιστωτές και η Ελλάδα. Το αποτέλεσμα των διαπραγματεύσεων είναι πολύ σημαντικό για τον σχεδιασμό του δευτέρου προγράμματος στήριξης. Και εφόσον έχει αποφασιστεί η συμμετοχή του ιδιωτικού τομέα, αυτή θα πρέπει να είναι εποικοδομητική και ουσιαστική», παρατηρεί η επικεφαλής του ΔΝΤ.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 13px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Τέλος η Κριστίν Λαγκάρντ εξέφρασε την ανάγκη βελτίωσης του τείχους προστασίας της ευρωζώνης από την κρίση. «Θα πρέπει σε ευρωπαϊκό επίπεδο το τείχος να είναι επαρκές και θα πρέπει να βελτιωθεί. Και αυτό ισχύει τόσο για τον προσωρινό όσο και για τον μόνιμο μηχανισμό στήριξης. Εάν γίνει αυτό, τότε τα μέλη του ΔΝΤ θα αυξήσουν ευχαρίστως τους πόρους και δεύτερον θα στηρίξουν αυτούς που χρειάζονται βοήθεια και πληρούν τις προϋποθέσεις, όχι μόνο τις χώρες της ευρωζώνης αλλά όλες τις χώρες».&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 13px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Burkhard Birke/Σταμάτης Ασημένιος&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 13px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Υπεύθ. σύνταξης: Κώστας Συμεωνίδης&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 13px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="clearing" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; 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color: #3d77e0; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; line-height: 1em; margin-bottom: 4px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-transform: uppercase;"&gt;EUROPEAN UNION&lt;span class="add" style="font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; text-transform: none;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;29.01.2012&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;h1 style="background-color: white; color: #003282; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 7px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;EU budget pact - a major breakthrough?&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;div class="partNav" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; clear: both; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.792em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="clearing" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; border-width: initial; border-width: initial; clear: both; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 0; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: white; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;&lt;div class="picBoxDetailTop" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 50, 130); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; float: left; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; width: 194px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.dw-world.de/popups/popup_lupe/0,,15697859,00.html" style="color: #333333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img alt="Piggy bank with 50 euro notes" border="0" src="http://www.dw-world.de/image/0,,15697638_1,00.jpg" style="display: block; float: left; margin-bottom: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="captionBox" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 50, 130); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;i class="caption" style="background-color: #f4f4f4; color: #555555; display: block; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; line-height: 1.4em; padding-bottom: 3px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 3px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.dw-world.de/popups/popup_lupe/0,,15697859,00.html" style="color: #555555; font-size: 10px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"&gt;Germany already has a constitutional debt limit&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="detailTeaserBox" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 50, 130); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; float: left; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; width: 374px;"&gt;&lt;h4 class="detailContentTeasertext" style="color: #333333; font-size: 12px; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;At their summit on Monday, 26 European Union members are set to adopt a new treaty on budget discipline. The fiscal pact is aimed at cutting debt. Is it a breakthrough or just a sideshow?&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="clearing" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; border-width: initial; border-width: initial; clear: both; line-height: 0; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="detailContent" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; border-width: initial; clear: both; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 10px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;&lt;div style="color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 13px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 13px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;The last details of the EU budget pact are being negotiated, but the German government is optimistic that it will all work out in the end. And no wonder, as&amp;nbsp;the idea for stricter budget discipline comes from Chancellor Angela Merkel.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 13px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;At the last EU summit in December, Merkel joyfully declared that the agreement by all member states, with the exception of Britain, was the breakthrough needed for a long-term resolution to the bloc's debt crisis.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 13px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;In less than two months, a treaty text has been worked out in what has to be&amp;nbsp;a&amp;nbsp;record time.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 13px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;The fiscal pact, however, does not have quite the bite originally intended by Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy, the political minds behind the proposal.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 13px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;German Central Bank President Jens Weidmann is now calling the treaty an important "contribution" to solving the crisis.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 13px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Sanctions for debtors&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 13px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="picBoxInlineEven" style="display: block; float: right; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 5px; margin-right: -8px; margin-top: 0px; width: 194px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.dw-world.de/popups/popup_lupe/0,,15697859_ind_1,00.html" style="color: #003282;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img alt="French President Nicolas Sarkozy (r) and German Chancellor Angela Merkel shake hands after a news conference" border="0" height="109" src="http://www.dw-world.de/image/0,,15654815_1,00.jpg" style="clear: both; display: block; float: left; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; max-width: none;" width="194" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;i class="caption" style="background-color: #f4f4f4; color: #555555; display: block; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; line-height: 1.4em; padding-bottom: 3px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 3px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.dw-world.de/popups/popup_lupe/0,,15697859_ind_1,00.html" style="color: #555555; font-size: 10px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"&gt;France and Germany launched the fiscal pact proposal&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Elmar Brok, a European parliamentarian from Merkel's Christian Democratic Party who took part in the negotiations, views the pact as an important "component" but not enough to solve the crisis on its own. Brok told Deutsche Welle that there were a few things that could have been improved.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 13px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;"But I think now it's possible to impose sanctions and launch legal proceedings against debtors automatically," he said.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 13px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;Although the treaty was agreed on outside the framework of the&amp;nbsp;European Union,&amp;nbsp;because Britain vetoed the process,&amp;nbsp;it is supposed to later become part of EU law. Brok considers that aspect especially important.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 13px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;"The community methodology was upheld so that no division of Europe could develop," said Brok.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 13px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;British Prime Minister David Cameron vetoed the deal because he said he was concerned about forfeiting national budget sovereignty.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 13px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;And in fact, the accord does call for automatic penalties in the case of excessive budget deficits, but what that ceiling will be is still under negotiation. In addition, a debt limit mechanism has been introduced which is supposed to lead to balanced budgets in the long term.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 13px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;This point was a key issue for Chancellor Merkel, because Germany already has a debt limit written into its constitution. Berlin was unable, however, to push through a proposal to enshrine debt limits in the constitutions of all member states. What's more, under certain extraordinary circumstances, such as steep recessions, there can be exceptions.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 13px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;Merkel has rejected complaints that she was trying to force her will on others just because she represented the largest eurozone country.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 13px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;"We are prepared to learn from one another," the chancellor said this week in Berlin during a visit with Belgian Prime Minister Elio Di Rupo. "It has nothing to do with dominance. It's not our fault that we're this big."&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 13px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="picBoxInlineUneven" style="display: block; float: left; margin-bottom: 4px; margin-left: -8px; margin-right: 8px; margin-top: 0px; width: 194px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.dw-world.de/popups/popup_lupe/0,,15697859_ind_2,00.html" style="color: #003282;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img alt="EU Monetary Affairs Commissionere, Olli Rehn" border="0" height="109" src="http://www.dw-world.de/image/0,,15688641_1,00.jpg" style="clear: both; display: block; float: left; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; max-width: none; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" width="194" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;i class="caption" style="background-color: #f4f4f4; color: #555555; display: block; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; line-height: 1.4em; padding-bottom: 3px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 3px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.dw-world.de/popups/popup_lupe/0,,15697859_ind_2,00.html" style="color: #555555; font-size: 10px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"&gt;Nothing really new, except the debt limit, said Rehn&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Nothing really new&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 13px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;Except for the debt limit&amp;nbsp;- that is, to reduce deficits and not accrue new debt&amp;nbsp;- there is nothing entirely new in the budget pact rules. Olli Rehn, the EU's monetary affairs commissioner, told a meeting of EU finance ministers in Brussels that 99 percent of the regulations in the new pact were already part of existing EU law. He said the whole idea was to underscore that point.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 13px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;"The fiscal pact is a fundamental obligation to budget discipline by the national parliaments of EU members," Rehn said. "That is the actual purpose. It will be achieved mainly by implementing existing rules and regulations."&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 13px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;Only those countries which join the budget pact can expect to receive aid from the 17-nation eurozone rescue fund. Within the next year, the treaty is expected to come into effect following ratification by the national parliaments. That, too, would be a record-breaking time frame for the EU.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 13px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;Experts agree the treaty is not a big help in the current crisis but that it will bear fruit in the future. Jean Pisani-Ferry, from the Brussels-based think tank Bruegel, points out that a real fiscal union with common budget and debt policies is still a long way off.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 13px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;"Actually, we need more political integration, but we are seeing the exact opposite. There is no political will to abandon one's own sovereignty, especially not in France," he notes.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 13px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;A political sideshow&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 13px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;The president of the EU Commission, Jose Manuel Barroso, has warned that the fiscal pact, which Britain has not agreed to, must not and cannot be used to create new institutions that would compete with existing common structures. He said anything else would generate confusion.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 13px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="picBoxInlineEven" style="display: block; float: right; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 5px; margin-right: -8px; margin-top: 0px; width: 194px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.dw-world.de/popups/popup_lupe/0,,15697859_ind_3,00.html" style="color: #003282;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img alt="Hannes Swoboda" border="0" height="109" src="http://www.dw-world.de/image/0,,15700055_1,00.jpg" style="clear: both; display: block; float: left; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; max-width: none;" width="194" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;i class="caption" style="background-color: #f4f4f4; color: #555555; display: block; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; line-height: 1.4em; padding-bottom: 3px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 3px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.dw-world.de/popups/popup_lupe/0,,15697859_ind_3,00.html" style="color: #555555; font-size: 10px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"&gt;Just a political sideshow, says Swoboda&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;"The treaty must, in the end, lead to more Europe, not less," Barroso stressed.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 13px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;The leader of the Socialist group in the European Parliament, Hannes Swoboda of Austria, has criticized Merkel and Sarkozy, both conservatives. He told DW that focusing on the fiscal pact alone was wrong.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 13px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;Labeling the budget treaty "a sideshow," Swoboda said it was much more important to discuss the role of the European Central Bank in issuing eurobonds and providing other economic stimulus measures.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 13px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;"There are sufficient political structures in Europe, but so far the heads of state and government, especially Chancellor Merkel, have refused to work within these structures," Swoboda said. There is no political will for a joint solution, he added.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 13px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has expressed his reservations about the fiscal union, calling for more input from those countries that do not yet have the euro. Furthermore, no one in Brussels quite knows how&amp;nbsp;Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban will vote when the negotiations are completed. Orban, who recently was massively criticized for possible treaty violations on another set of issues, could reject the pact.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 13px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;To prevent any delays, the majority of EU leaders want to enact the new treaty, even if it's not ratified by all the participating countries. Just how high this threshold will be&amp;nbsp;- 10, 12 or 17 members&amp;nbsp;- is still undecided.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 13px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;Author: Bernd Riegert / gb&lt;br /&gt;Editor: Joanna Impey&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 13px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="clearing" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; border-width: initial; border-width: initial; clear: both; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 0; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 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margin-bottom: 1.1em;"&gt;Incidentally, the IMF also explained on 25 January that it has never asked the ECB to play an active role in writing off the Greek debt. IMF boss Christine Lagarde, however, had clearly said while speaking in Berlin that the official creditors to Athens, aka the ECB and Eurozone governments, could participate in the effort to reduce the Greek debt to manageable levels.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 1.2em; line-height: 1.5em !important; margin-bottom: 1.1em;"&gt;In any case, the austerity policies in countering the Eurozone's debt problems have proved insufficient to convince the world’s financial markets that the single money zone will overcome its over-indebtedness.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 1.2em; line-height: 1.5em !important; margin-bottom: 1.1em;"&gt;The question is whether Merkel, who is the main political force behind the past two years’ attempts, is still insisting that the Eurozone should continue applying the same problematic economic policy mix of austerity and labour market deregulation.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 1.2em; line-height: 1.5em !important; margin-bottom: 1.1em;"&gt;At this point, it must be remembered that even the Greek employers’ associations rejected on 25 January the idea of abolishing the traditional 13th and 14th yearly wages paid to private-sector workers, after these bonuses of two extra salaries were abolished from the beginning of 2010 in the state sector and the pension system.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 1.2em; line-height: 1.5em !important; margin-bottom: 1.1em;"&gt;Greek employers also rejected the idea of a generous reduction of the lowest legal remuneration in the private sector and, instead, asked for a three-year freeze in salaries.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 1.2em; line-height: 1.5em !important; margin-bottom: 1.1em;"&gt;Under these conditions, it seems that the German government will continue to impose Teutonic solutions on the rest of the Eurozone through the tight fiscal Union of the EU26 that Merkel proposed during the European Summit in early December and the other 25 leaders accepted, with the exemption of UK Prime Minister David Cameron.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 1.2em; line-height: 1.5em !important; margin-bottom: 1.1em;"&gt;This new ‘Union within the Union’ is going to be an awkward organisation, not being an EU institution itself but functioning under the auspices of the main European organs such as the European Parliament, Council and Commission, using their blessing to legitimise itself inside and outside the EU 27.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 1.2em; line-height: 1.5em !important; margin-bottom: 1.1em;"&gt;In any case, a lot of action to straighten up the Eurozone's problems is taking place outside the main EU institutions – for example, the next summit of the 27 EU leaders on 30 January will not have the Greek issue on its agenda, as the Hungarian COREPER II Ambassador Péter GYÖRKÖS recently revealed, adding, however, that this may still change before the summit.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 1.2em; line-height: 1.5em !important; margin-bottom: 1.1em;"&gt;The real action towards an agreement over Greek-debt reduction by 50% takes place in closed rooms in Berlin and Frankfort, outside EU procedures.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 1.2em; line-height: 1.5em !important; margin-bottom: 1.1em;"&gt;The Greek private lenders, aka the banks, which are expected to suffer a 50% reduction in their Athens debt holding, complain that the new demands for a deeper ‘haircut’ to their wealth is removed from what the October EU summit decided.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 1.2em; line-height: 1.5em !important; margin-bottom: 1.1em;"&gt;However, the next EU summit is not supposed to present an opinion on this matter and the details of Private Sector Involvement (PSI) in alleviating the Greek debt are being negotiated outside of the EU institutions.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 1.2em; line-height: 1.5em !important; margin-bottom: 1.1em;"&gt;So, what kind of ‘more Europe’ are the Germans asking for? 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margin-bottom: 1.1em;"&gt;Converging information from Athens, Brussels and Davos indicates that the agreement between the Greek government and its creditors is almost concluded.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 1.2em; line-height: 1.5em !important; margin-bottom: 1.1em;"&gt;Charles Dallara, the head of the International Institute of Finance representing the banks, is expected to meet Prime Minister Loukas Papademos late on 27 January to seal the deal on Private Sector Involvement (PSI) in alleviating the country's debt, but it is not clear if there will be an announcement made immediately afterwards.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 1.2em; line-height: 1.5em !important; margin-bottom: 1.1em;"&gt;In Athens, sources close to the negotiating teams say that the deal has as its central point an average interest rate of 3.7% on the new debt – the idea is that the new bonds, which are to replace 50% of the nominal value of the debt paper currently held by banks, will bear an interest rate below this level and will be increasing after the country enters in a sustainable growth path, hopefully in the year 2014 or 2015.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 1.2em; 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