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Greece loses EU voting power in blow to sovereignty
London Daily Telegraph, U.K. ^ | Tuesday February 16, 2010 | Ambrose Evans-Pritchard

Posted on 02/16/2010 1:04:10 PM PST by jpl

The council of EU finance ministers said Athens must comply with austerity demands by March 16 or lose control over its own tax and spend policies altogether. It if fails to do so, the EU will itself impose cuts under the draconian Article 126.9 of the Lisbon Treaty in what would amount to economic suzerainty.

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News
KEYWORDS: eu; europe; europeanunion; greece; socialismsucks
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To: Ben Mugged
Oh sure the Socialists (not the marxist kind btw - do you know the difference) are in...very much loved and admired by the political elites in this country by the way Hmmmmmm. The conservativs turned out to be more to the left than the leftists --- kind of like RINO lites in this country

As for demanding a bailout-—that's BS.

The best they could so is to demand the long delayed reparations by the Germans and Austrians for the maniacal destruction of their country in WWII. Then they should talk about what they might owe to bloodsuckers Goldman Sachs.

My first preference is for them to get the Hell out of the EU. There are alternatives...

61 posted on 02/16/2010 1:27:19 PM PST by eleni121 (For Jesus did not give us a timid spirit , but a spirit of power, of love and of self-discipline)
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To: ConservativeMind

YES, you are right.................


62 posted on 02/16/2010 1:27:31 PM PST by Red Badger (Education makes people easy to lead, difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.)
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To: jpl

Watch the public employee unions riot in the streets if any of these “austerity measures” are actually pursued.


63 posted on 02/16/2010 1:27:41 PM PST by St. Louis Conservative
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To: jpl

Looks like they failed to read the fine print in the contract.


64 posted on 02/16/2010 1:27:42 PM PST by Mad_Tom_Rackham (It is the duty of the patriot to protect his country from its government -- Thomas Payne)
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To: buwaya
More likely (though very unlikely anyway) is that Greece would be expelled from the EU as a deadbeat.

It's no more likely than Obama cancelling social security and other dependency-building measures.

I believe that EU is *interested* in creating vassal states. This is the way for them (who? nobody!) to become uncrowned kings of Europe. The Lisbon Treaty was pushed through for a reason, and now Greece sees what that reason was.

65 posted on 02/16/2010 1:28:43 PM PST by Greysard
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To: buwaya

Your stereotypes sound amusing-—did you get rejected by some kid at the beach?


66 posted on 02/16/2010 1:30:08 PM PST by eleni121 (For Jesus did not give us a timid spirit , but a spirit of power, of love and of self-discipline)
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To: WhistlingPastTheGraveyard
Hey, maybe they could call on Soros! He's Greek! Thank you! So, true, always thought Soros was Hungarian! Some posters here seem to have a psychotic and IGNORANT fixation on Soros...
67 posted on 02/16/2010 1:30:20 PM PST by Mister Muggles (.Seattle: A city full of Liberal men with vaginas.)
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To: Ben Mugged
The EU sought to be a European version of America's 50 states just by slapping together the most uninspiring charter that I've ever read.

They recklessly added member states faster than even NATO could swallow up former Soviet satellite nations. They'd take any Euro nation no matter how much of an economic and social basket case they were.

Now that the wheels are coming off the wagon for their riskiest acquisitions like Greece, they demand that the non-Greek citizens bail them out while the bankers in charge practice classical Fascism by legally reverting Greece to a vassal state.

If that ain't Fascism, I don't know what is. That's why it's evil.

68 posted on 02/16/2010 1:30:56 PM PST by The KG9 Kid
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To: Joe Boucher

“So maybe Greece can cozy up to Turkey”

Like Olive Oil and water cozy? Ain’t gonna happen.


69 posted on 02/16/2010 1:31:09 PM PST by cowtowney
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To: Red Badger
Athens, Greece - the cradle of western-civilization democracy.

The 13 original American colonies - the cradle of the American Republic.

Something seems to be amiss here......hmmmm.....

I guess I'm just out of step with the siren call of socialism to free peoples.

Leni

70 posted on 02/16/2010 1:31:29 PM PST by MinuteGal (Bill O'Reilly: 9/8/09: "Communism is not a threat to us anymore"-10/20/09: "Obama is not a Marxist")
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To: henkster

It iss ein naturel phase.


71 posted on 02/16/2010 1:31:39 PM PST by ichabod1 ( I am rolling over in my grave and I am not even dead yet.)
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To: jpl
Wow. What a rotten situation Europe finds put itself in.
72 posted on 02/16/2010 1:31:42 PM PST by Nervous Tick (Eat more spinach! Make Green Jobs for America!)
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To: jpl

“What a rotten situation Europe finds itself in.”

Yet AGAIN. I think the EU is going to go the way of the Soviet Union.


73 posted on 02/16/2010 1:31:46 PM PST by Niuhuru (The Internet is the digital AIDS; adapting and successfully destroying the MSM host.)
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To: buwaya

I know the Italian people are generally cool cats.

I was asking in regards to their status in the EU: Strong or weak?


74 posted on 02/16/2010 1:31:51 PM PST by GOPsterinMA (Camelot sleeps with the fishes!)
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To: Rebelbase

California, along with much of the rest of this country, is galloping toward the same miserable outcome. Once Constitutional protections for private property had been usurped, and the politicians could say “elect ME, and I’ll give you a benefit and make somebody else pay for it”, the game was over.


75 posted on 02/16/2010 1:32:13 PM PST by Mad_Tom_Rackham (It is the duty of the patriot to protect his country from its government -- Thomas Payne)
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To: jpl

Blow to sovereignty? Wow, that’s a bit of an upside down comment, as if membership in the E.U. was tantamount to a sovereign wet dream. Bull s—t!


76 posted on 02/16/2010 1:32:33 PM PST by DoughtyOne (God, Family, Friends, Home, Town, State, the U.S., Conservatism, Free Republic & a dollar a day...)
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To: katana

I fear the greeks, even when they come bearing gifts.


77 posted on 02/16/2010 1:32:54 PM PST by ichabod1 ( I am rolling over in my grave and I am not even dead yet.)
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To: Greysard

The Holy Roman Empire is BAAAAACK!.......................


78 posted on 02/16/2010 1:33:06 PM PST by Red Badger (Education makes people easy to lead, difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.)
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To: Mister Muggles
So why does he have a Greek name?

And why do I see him around every corner and under every rock? LOL.
79 posted on 02/16/2010 1:33:38 PM PST by Mister Muggles (.Seattle: A city full of Liberal men with vaginas.)
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To: MinuteGal
I guess I'm just out of step with the siren call of socialism to free peoples.

The siren call of socialism is well listened to while strapped to a Pole.....................................

80 posted on 02/16/2010 1:34:17 PM PST by Red Badger (Education makes people easy to lead, difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.)
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