New details
came out from a new book by the former Greek Minister of Finance,
Yanis Varoufakis, concerning the dramatic negotiations with the
German leadership about the Greek issue, at the time of his term in
the ministry. The dialogues are quite revealing and confirm that the
main concern of the German directorate is to impose the cruel
neoliberal conditions, not only in Greece, but in the whole eurozone.
Varoufakis
reveals
the characteristic words by the German Minister of Finance, Wolfgang
Schäuble, during a private meeting with him, who says clearly that
euro goes with the memorandums, which are the catastrophic agreements
signed between Greece and Troika (ECB, IMF, European Commission):
«I was
very pleased to hear your PM speak about the possibility of a
referendum. This would be perfect! But pay attention. You should be
very clear with the Greeks on what are their options. According to
the polls, the majority is in favor of euro. You should tell them
that, if they want euro, they should accept the memorandum. If they
don't want the memorandum, that's ok, let them go on. Let them go on.
The memorandum goes without changes. Or, drachma. You should accept
the memorandum if you want euro. If you don't want euro, that's
another issue.»
«You
see, the only way for the Union to survive, the only thing it can
keep us, is more discipline. Anyone who wants the euro should accept
the discipline. Eurozone will be en-powered significantly in case
that discipline will be imposed by a Grexit.»
We
have pointed repeatedly that the particular problems of Greece were
only the pretext for the IMF-EFD
invasion. An invasion for the purpose of destroying systematically
the Greek economy according to the brutal neoliberal experiment, to
open the road for the new conditions. That is, unprecedented cuts in
wages-pensions, dissolving labor rights and social state, sell off
public assets.
Therefore,
Schäuble's ultimatum leaves no doubt: eurozone means brutal
austerity, sado-monetarism, neoliberal destruction.
Indeed,
Greece was forced yesterday to sign a fourth catastrophic memorandum
which seals the final details of the cruel neoliberal experiment.
From Reuters:
As part of the reforms, Athens has promised to cut
pensions in 2019 and cut the tax-free threshold in 2020 to produce
savings worth 2 percent of gross domestic product.
If it outperforms its targets, it will be allowed to
activate a set of measures offsetting the impact of the additional
austerity, which includes mainly lowering taxes.
Athens also agreed to sell coal-fired plants and coal
mines equal to about 40 percent of its dominant power utility Public
Power Corp's (DEHr.AT) capacity.
On the budgetary target level, the lenders are now
likely to decide among themselves on Greece's medium-term primary
surplus targets, a key element for granting further debt relief.
In a draft document seen by Reuters, the IMF says Greece
can reach a primary surplus - the budget balance excluding debt
repayments - of 2.2 percent in 2018 and aim at 3.5 percent annually
in 2019-2021. It suggests the primary surplus target be reduced to
1.5 percent of GDP thereafter.
Euro zone lenders, however, believe Greece must sustain
a 3.5 percent GDP primary surplus target over a longer period.
Last year's Greek primary surplus was 4.2 percent,
according to the lenders. Whether that can be maintained is unclear.
Early
this year, the neoliberal priesthood made
clear what it wants:
While
the German sado-monetarists insist that the IMF mafia should remain
in the Greek program, the IMF has set new conditions: it wants Greece
to continue cuts and austerity even after the end of the cruel
agreement (third memorandum) between Greece and its creditors (EU
Commission, ECB, IMF), meaning, even after 2018!
Less
than a year ago, the chairman of eurozone finance
ministers, Jeroen Dijsselbloem, has stated that “I don’t see
any flexibility on the 3.5 percent [of GDP primary surplus] in 2018
because it was one of the anchors of the agreement of last summer. So
that’s going to take a huge effort on the part of Greece but I
think it can be done,”.
In other
words, after six years of orchestrated destruction of the Greek
economy through the IMF recipe, the Brussels bureaufascists insisted
on 3.5% primary surplus by a devastated economy! Either they are
indeed sociopaths, or, the most probable, do not care about any
surplus. They just use it to impose further cuts in pensions and
salaries, further rise in taxes for the remaining middle class, to
the last drop of blood of the Greek economy.
The
IMF-adopted policies completely ruined Greece over the last six
years, but the Troika sadists want to destroy whatever has left from
the country. They want to make an example of Greece. They want to
finish the experiment, loot public property, transfer the new
conditions throughout eurozone. It is more than obvious now.
As
also described in previous
article:
Poor
Mr. Schäuble must give "earth and water" to the German
oligarchs. He must organize a new Treuhand for the whole Europe to
sell-off public property, he must completely dissolve labor rights,
bring down pensions and wages, destroy the social state. He must end
quickly with Greece and pass all the "Greek achievements"
to the whole eurozone.
Europeans
should also start to get used to unemployment rates of more than 30%,
according to the Greek experiment. When these measures reach Germany,
Mr. Schäuble will have the perfect excuse for the angry Germans:
blame the Greeks and the European south because they refused to take
"reforms" early, it's their fault.
This whole
scenario explains why Greece's creditors insist to destroy Greece,
knowing that they will never take their money back, as they
systematically destroy the economy. Now you know. They don't care at
all. They can print as much money as they want and give them to the
banking parasites who control the Brussels-Berlin axis.
So, as you
see now, poor Mr. Schäuble is very far from being considered a
"powerful leader". Not only he is a puppet, but he is a
puppet under pressure. He must do the work quickly for the oligarchs,
persuading European people that the definite "restructure"
of the eurozone into a totalitarian financial dictatorship is
inevitable.
Therefore,
any country that would think to join the euro sado-monetary prison,
should know what to expect from now on.
Furthermore,
the dialogues revealed by Varoufakis are quite interesting for one
more reason: they show that he fell in Schäuble's trap, as the
German official was pretending that he was pro-Grexit. Varoufakis'
reactions show that this is a very probable scenario that we will
analyze in a subsequent article.
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