What’s right? – The column by Wolfram Weimer: Grexit or Brexit? – Reuters

Wolfram Weimer

The journalist was editor of the daily newspaper “Die Welt”, the political magazine “Cicero” and “Focus”. He describes himself as conservative values.

In Greece, the Athens government debt drama dances a new round extortion-Syrtaki. The Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras flirting with Putin and the EU is in the back. The Interior Minister Nikos Voutzis threatens to default, you will now pay for their own people and no more loans

The reform lists submitted in Brussels are rather dubious marginal sketches -. Anything between audacity and grotesque. Then contradicts a spokesman for the Interior Minister and praises progress that no one sees again in Brussels. And finally emerged ultimate reform list, but does not include a reform of the ailing pension system nor a liberalization of the labor market, but overspending in the amount of at least 1.1 billion euros.

Pitfalls: What could

• Greece is five years after the first loan assistance before a mountain of difficulties. For the past one and a half months, the left-right government in Athens ruled. The list of pitfalls and problems, however, is long. (Source: AP)

• The government is running out of money. She scratches along the last resort, even the pension funds are tapped. In March Greece must meet any liabilities of around seven billion euros. A Kassensturz to clarity bring -. The demand donors

• The left Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras running the of time. By April, the government is to present a viable list of reforms and savings donors before additional credit support flow. These are long-term but not enough, it must be her new debt solutions or concepts.

• The new Finance Yanis Varoufakis provides not only with the lenders, led by Germany, ideological battles, he also represents the European Central Bank in the pillory and over again. Greece, however, depends on the drip of the ECB, the guardian of the euro.

• How difficult is it for Government is to fill the coffers to show their recent reform proposals. The mentality of the refusal to pay taxes sit so deep that housewives, students or tourists are to be used as an amateur taxman.

• is true that the majority of Greeks recent polls suggest further behind the government. But the fear of the uncertain future has led many Greeks to deduct Billions of dollars from their accounts. Regain the lost confidence at home and abroad, is one of the biggest problems.

• Tsipras wants by his own admission no euro-exit (“Grexit”), the consequences are incalculable. An accidental falling out of the euro (“Graccident”) is not excluded by economists – if the negotiations with the Euro-partners fail, chaos erupts, the Greeks plunder their accounts, pensions and salaries not paid. Then, the scenario adopted, Athens would be insolvent and would be salvation in a new drachma looking for.

is Europe’s policy now stunned. Even the well-wishers feel slow demonstrated by the endless series of insolence. In some suspicion germinates, the Greek government deliberately play the wild amateur and was in truth with all sneaky credit blackmail the go; they would return to the drachma not shy away rather want and only investigated the scapegoat in Europe. In Greece companies already clear how individuals empty the accounts. Either way – Tsipras, Varoufakis & amp; Co. stagger their games against the euro exit.

That would be a relief for Europe increasingly dangerous. The real threat to the integrity of the European Union now lurks in the southeast but not in the northwest. And the one is directly related to the other.

The more the EU show from Greece, blackmail and exclude financially leaves, the more grows in the UK the will of this rogue states club quit. Opinion polls in the UK do not bode well. So Britain to leave the EU – – And so the “Brexit” could take place because everyone wanted to prevent (Greek exit from the euro) only the “Grexit”

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