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Originally Posted by Irenicus
Greece urgently needs structural reforms and stimulus, both preferably intertwined such that one is essential to another. The EU help packages are not helping them with it. I would have thought the Bright Minds of Europe, at least the few in the Central Banks that have yet to be poisoned by Thatcherite propaganda and German moralism on debt, should be pressuring Syriza for long term structural reforms in exchange for stimulus, term packages with some precedents from the 1953 forgiveness of (half) of German debt. That is, if they are actually serving the vision of a better Europe for all, a decade or two from now, rather than the interests of the creditors, now.
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The problem with "long term structural reform" is that the Greek have been promising such for years - since way before 2008 - and don't seem to have started on the important bits.