In today’s EU summit meeting Angela Merkel and Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras each other for the first time. The mood could hardly be of heated. This is also helped harsh statements of Tsipras in the past.
In the dispute over Greece rescue it comes to hundreds of billions of euros. But it is also about feelings, sense of honor and wounded pride.
In Greece, the feeling of humiliation is particularly large. No wonder: the government is limited in its ability to act for years. One in four citizens are unemployed. Wages and pensions rich barely alive.
The new Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has the choice and therefore won because he promised to return the Greek people’s dignity.
However, it Tsipras with the dignity of other politicians do not always squeamish around. Particularly clear he was 2012 in an interview with the TV journalist Stephan Lamby, in which the then Oppositionspolitker Merkel attacked directly. Tsipras will meet at the EU summit in Brussels with Angela Merkel (CDU) morning. Whether the chancellor his interview statements still resents?
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One thing is certain: Merkel will not forget so easily. . In the political Berlin shall be deemed always well informed when it comes to past statements of their interlocutor
FOCUS Online documents the key messages from the Tsipras interview:
Q: What is Angela Merkel’s role in the euro crisis
Alexis Tsipras: Mrs Merkel plays a central role, it is the actress . Since it denies the Society’s demand a more humane policy, it is the key person
Q:. What is your opinion on the first phase of the euro crisis
? Tsipras: Mrs Merkel has a strategy. This strategy is not about friendly feelings for the Greek people or the peoples of southern Europe. Mrs Merkel’s strategy is to prevent the dissolution of the euro zone just before twelve – and at the same time the hard neoliberal policies of austerity to tighten (austerity). Merkel’s policy is a German Europe and not a European Germany
“hegemonic Germany”
Q:. What do you mean by the term “German Europe “
Tsipras: We move toward a Europe under the reign of Mrs Merkel and Germany. We move toward a Europe which is fundamentally antisocial, where democracy is endangered, where decisions are taken on the basis of market criteria. It’s about a Europe of the hegemon Germany
Q:. What damage adds Angela Merkel in her opinion to Greece
Q:. Merkel principle is simple: Help Greece to reform. Is not useful
Tsipras: Certain reforms are needed. But these reforms do not work when simultaneously collapses the economy. The white Angela Merkel very good. In reality, neither Merkel pursues the goal to obtain the structural weaknesses of the Greek state under control, yet reduce debt. It wants to create in Greece a low-wage zone . She wants to redistribute the cake of state wealth – through privatization. Simultaneously, it will make our country a Debt colony . With the aid payments is not about charity. If you do not provide the support, the cost of the global economy, the European and German economy would be enormously high
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