History is written by the winners of the war.
Greece....how can they...
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morganist
They put up with it because they wanted them to join the EU.
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morganist
I think it was like a bribe to keep them in. Also the administrative side of the Euro was terrible. They set up the statistical body called Eurostat to look into the fiscal and administrative figures of the Eurozone however it did not have any power. They gained the figures from National Statistical Insititutes that were not regulated or sanctioned. In 2008 the ESGAB was set up to regulate these figures but they are still not sanctioned. The only way they have been sanctioned is through the austerity program.
The Eurozone was not regulated or managed properly and the efforts made to do so have only come from the agreement to pay them more money. It is as if they have no real power in Greece and enforcement only comes at the worst time.
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Umm, I think you are confused about how it works. Greece was on the side of the Allies, who won WW2. The winners of a war gets paid, not the losers.
Hiroshima and Nagasaki were retaliation for Pearl Harbor?!?
While not directly, and officially it was to "end the war", this was what pushed them to use nuclear weapons.
As far as I know, much of eastern europe actually sided with the allies.
But the "history is written by the winning side" comment is very much right of course, the tables might just turn though.
If you think that you greeks can get away with it, stealing money from other Europeans by lying and cheating without pissing other Europeans like me off, think again.
Bookings for tourism in greece are already down 25% for the moment. And I'm happy for it.
I tell everybody who wants to hear it how normal greek citizens cheated everything and everybody to earn more money. Well, I guess you greeks will receive what you deserve.
