Greece is in a depression in a Europe in tatters

Writes the Ceteris Paribus
What happens in the Eurogroup on December 5? There will be a deal? A somewhat paradoxical answer to this question would be that this will be decided on 4 December from…
the Italians and Austrians voters! If the Italian referendum on the constitutional reform prevail “No”, the Italian prime minister has reiterated his commitment that he would resign. In this case, Italy will surrender to the charm of the “ευρωσκεπιτικισμού” and the “ant-globalization”. If, also, in re presidential electoral campaign dominated by the right-wing mr Hofer, Austria will become even more emphatically not a fan of the line of protectionism.
The Meet, prime minister of Italy who is suffering from the japanese syndrome of long-term fixation on economic stagnation and feels uncomfortable in the narrow corset of the european ντιρεκτίβων, it behaves as a friend of Greece and Alexis Tsipras. Austria holds already a tough stance in our country.
But the question is how much and in which direction will change the policy of Italy and Austria, if the Way lost in the Italian referendum and the Hofer won the austrian presidency. The issue is that the European Union and the Euro area, i.e. the “real Europe”, seem to falter after the Brexit. The election of Donald Trump gave a global… leadership model in an international stream of a return to protectionism and the “traditional” values. In a Europe where the crisis has lead to the limits of endurance with the existing balances, the international power’s representatives can go on consecutive triumphs in the elections of 2017. With the expected exception of Germany, which was perhaps the only real winner from the european status quo. Even in Germany, however, the political pressure on Merkel brought her one step before the resignation…
In these circumstances, it is completely reasonable that the Huh.E. and the Euro area to be dominated by a climate of “βαλτώματος”, impermanence and “emptiness”. No one knows what τέξεται the επιούσα and all expect to “do fund” with the completion of the image after the elections the end of 2016 (4 December), and 2017, and until September that going to be the German elections.
Whatever is decided, then, on 5 December, will be governed by the logic of temporality, of the “patch”. Only the government is prepared to “welcome” in θριαμβικούς tons of the “deal” – for obvious reasons. Because agreement there will be with certainty. This guaranteed two things:
First, that the european leadership (whatever it actually means) doesn’t want now redundant fuses of uncertainty and instability.
Second, that Alexis Tsipras and his government have decided to say the big “yes to all” to quickly shut down the evaluation. The recent reshuffle put in the crucial ministries of the “right” people so that the “job” to finish quickly, without the “red” lines, “αυτοκριτικές” and guilt syndromes and especially without wasting time due to communication management of the inevitable yes.
In a Europe that is entering into uncharted waters, into a world that is in transition to a new, probably more “dark” and dangerous time, Greece has been grounded, is under repression. This is the harsh reality behind the almost certain agreement on 5 December or the next Eurogroup on 10 January 2017.
The new international stream of the return to protectionism swear by the slogan “take our country back”. In the fixation of Greece, “tied to the mast” of Germany and its creditors, no one has a “kidney” to think anything other than, “yes to all”. When everyone is thinking the “next day” of Europe and the world, in Greece, the horizon of the political class is at most the next evaluation.
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