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German tax collectors volunteer for Greek duty More than 160 German tax collectors have volunteered for possible assignments in Greece to help the struggling Mediterranean country gather tax more efficiently, the finance ministry said in Berlin at the weekend.The offer risks fuelling resentment among Greeks who have already reacted angrily to earlier German calls for the appointment of a « budget commissioner » to monitor the Greek government’s financial management. The German government says it wants to help Greece develop a modern tax administration and has started recruiting volunteers. More than 160 German tax officials with English language skills have signed up and about a dozen also speak Greek, a spokesman for the finance ministry said. German criticism has reopened wounds in Greece dating back to the second world war. Protesters in Athens burned a German flag earlier this month and Greek newspapers have portrayed German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Nazi uniform. Germans, who are making the largest financial contribution to the eurozone bailout for Greece, are growing increasingly impatient with what finance minister Wolfgang Schäuble described as a « bottomless pit » in Greece. |
La Grèce sur le point de devenir une colonie Allemande ?
Anecdote sur la Grèce:
This is best encapsulated in an anecdote from my visit to Athens. A friend and I met up at a new bookstore and café in the centre of town, which has only been open for a month. The establishment is in the center of an area filled with bars, and the owner decided the neighborhood could use a place for people to convene and talk without having to drink alcohol and listen to loud music. After we sat down, we asked the waitress for a coffee. She thanked us for our order and immediately turned and walked out the front door. My friend explained that the owner of the bookstore/café couldn’t get a license to provide coffee. She had tried to just buy a coffee machine and give the coffee away for free, thinking that lingering patrons would boost book sales. However, giving away coffee was illegal as well. Instead, the owner had to strike a deal with a bar across the street, whereby they make the coffee and the waitress spends all day shuttling between the bar and the bookstore/café. My friend also explained to me that books could not be purchased at the bookstore, as it was after 18h and it is illegal to sell books in Greece beyond that hour. I was in a bookstore/café that could neither sell books nor make coffee.
http://economistmeg.com/2012/02/27/note-from-athens-feeling-on-the-ground-has-palpably-changed/
Un pays en faillite ça a l’air de quoi?
Si le Canada ne maintenant pas le Québec en vie via la péréquation comme il le fait depuis des lustres, on le saurait, nous au Québec, de quoi ça a l’air un pays en faillite.
Les Grecques doivent s’acculturer s’ils veulent rester dans la zone Euro. Fini une grèce qui ressemble à une maison de prostitution.
Amusant que ce soit une socialiste comme Merkel qui doit ramener à l’ordre L’ultra gauche Européenne mais cela passe mieux que si c’était des méchants conservateurs. Si Obama attaquerait L’IRAN le monde accepterait mais pas un Républicain. D’où l’Importance de mettre le plus de pression possible sur Saint Obama.