Eurogroup is Procrustes of European democracy
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Austerity piled on austerity is making Greece's exit from the euro appear as "an unavoidable choice", the leader of the fifth largest party in parliament said on Thursday.
Alexis Tsipras, who heads the Radical Left Coalition (Syriza), said that while his coalition has never called for Greece to leave the eurozone, political developments meant this was becoming a greater possibility.
Speaking on public broadcaster NET TV, Tsipras said that the troika would not be satisfied with written
commitments from all the political party leaders in Greece to uphold the austerity agreement, regardless of the outcome of elections expected in April.
"They will also be asking the pensioners to sign a letter of remorse that they accept that their pensions will sink to 200 euros", he said.
He warned that "A country with salaries of 400 euros cannot be a European country of Europe, but an African one. Greece is distancing itself from Europe and going closer to Libya and Egypt."
He opined that voters will face the dilemma of "don't vote left so that the country will be saved" if elections are held.
"The Eurogroup is turning into the Procrustes of democracy in Europe," he said, referring to the mythological Greek figure who stretched people or cut off their legs, so as to force them to fit the size of an iron bed.
"[German Finance Minister Wolfgang] Schaeuble is playing the same role as that played by the tanks in the Second World War."
"We've reached the point of being under a German hegemony of a different era," Tsipras charged.
source athensnews.gr
May 19, 2012 - 02:34
