I am not sure if Mr. Juncker was entirely conscious of his words when he spoke at the EU's traditionally undervalued Economic and Social Committee, but I perceived his statement on the occasion of long terms policy guidelines as potentially historical.
He literally stated that "on a peché" against the dignity of peoples in Greece, Portugal and Ireland and are to learn from the past to avoid the same mistakes, questioning the (democratic) legitimacy of the troika triangle and pointing towards a too passive predecessor who had his political career in the country Germany is now using as a show case. Back in junk creditworthy rated Portugal people continue affirming and denying their government's unsovereign submissiveness, with a touch of envy of the apparent pride parading of Greek counterparts.
It will have been a Rotschild descendant who proclaimed something around the lines "give me access to a country's money supply and I shall not care about who makes its laws". That was in the midst of the 19th century, more or less around the time that the Pan-German Alldeutsche Bewegung or the German Question, supported by very long term demographic research, ceased being secretive and started taking shape in society at large (and I suggest to any reader to google it up to what human disaster that movement led into the following century).
Today, Mr Wolfgang Schäuble is pursuing the functions of his mandate as much as Mr Tsiparis and both are limiting themselves within the boundaries of their electorate's interest, that is with a responsibility only towards their own country, with hardly any room for some multilateral European sharing environment. In a modern world, power also comes with accountability and I sense a spreading sense of frustration at all levels within Europe towards the burden of responsibility that Germany has been hiding from.
When we think of Germany, we do remember because we must, but really try to forget the dominant role it has played in relative recent history and prefer to pinpoint its contribution in science and industry along with the effects that continues to have on business, trade and even culture. The size of German enterprise and the extent of foreign investment, within a global economy then tend to cloud our views of how much of an introvert country or society Germany really is, especially if compared to the world wide colonizing empires that it has had its territorial military conflicts with.
The 4 months very conditioned extension Greece has been given is far from slicing a Gordian's knot, but probably time enough for Tsiparis "The Great" to continue his guerilla resistance to conquest sufficient international public and political support for the Greek cause, in order to reshape some of the conventional thinking that we have rather become bored with over the last 4 years. Poli kala!
With that being said, Yanis, come on man .... even if you believe that Karl Marx's is referring to capitalists in his quote on the good intentions on the road to hell, the paper you handed in early today (in accordance with Greek time but just before midnight as per Mr Dijsselbloem's time zone) only has two numbers, 56% referring to non-personnel expenditures and the number 10 in terms of ministries to remain.
If any academic or professional would handover this to me as a performance or business plan I too would send them back home for some more work or just maybe forget about it and go out for a drink and just talk about the joys of life.
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