Monday, May 16, 2011

The arrest of DSK plunged Greece into anxiety

Athens, Correspondence - The arrest of Dominique Strauss-Kahn, managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) falls ill for Greece, while EU ministers are looking again on the issue of the country's debt, Monday, May 16 The government spokesman said Sunday that the relationship with the IMF was "institutional", but the personal relationship between Dominique Strauss-Kahn and Prime Minister George Papandreou, both Socialists, have played a key role to enable the plan Rescue Greece in May 2010.

The dominant concern in the newspapers on Monday. "The maid stops Greece," headlined the leftist daily Eleftherotypia, while the Liberal Kathimerini saw "Greece in limbo" and Ta Nea close of Pasok, remarked on "Sex, loans and mortgages. It was around Dominique Strauss-Kahn (DSK) that George Papandreou first turned when he discovered how much deficit the country.

DSK spoke very quickly in favor of a plan for Greece, while European leaders dithered. "The situation in Greece would certainly have been better if the EU and the IMF could help Greece earlier," regretted DSK, April 4. The IMF boss revealed he had recently been in contact with Mr. Papandreou shortly after coming to power of the latter in October 2009.

This caused a small controversy in Greece because it did not correspond with the official version of government. For Dominique Strauss-Kahn became a familiar figure for Greece. His words are dissected by the media. A few months earlier, an interview on Canal + where he explained that the Greeks were "in trouble" caused a sensation in the country.

It is also one of the favorite heads of Turkish demonstrators who oppose austerity measures. It is the symbol of the policy imposed on the country in exchange for the loan of 110 billion euros for granted that Greece avoided bankruptcy by the IMF and the European Union (EU). The IMF representative Poul Thomsen is currently in Athens with the other members of the troika (IMF, EU, European Central Bank) to measure changes in the implementation of the austerity plan.

Greece is struggling to meet its goals because tax revenues are insufficient and austerity measures have worsened the recession. Relations are increasingly strained between the government and the Troika. Foreign representatives to further grow the economy and privatization, which strikes the social base of Pasok, to within the government itself.

The deputy chairman of the union ADEDY public, Elias Vrettakos, does not pay much tears over the fate of the IMF's managing director. "This is not about people," he said Monday on the sidelines of the European Trade Union Congress, which takes place in Athens. The policy imposed by the IMF and the European Union has tragic consequences for our country.

The government suppresses the social gains and rights of workers. The memorandum signed by the government with the Troika is the best way to destroy our country. " One protester even less diplomatically summed up the feeling of a portion of the street, at the last general strike, May 11, wearing a T-shirt, unequivocally: "Fuck the MFI [IMF]!" Alain Salles

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