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Greek PM Seeks "Happy Ending" - Will Do Whatever It Takes
As next week's Eurogroup meeting's last chance to get more cash, ahead of the looming threat of a €780mm payments due to The IMF, rapidly approaches, the left-wing Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has forecast a "happy ending" to fraught negotiations on the cash-for-reforms deal. EU creditors are less enthusiastic, as Reuters reports, noting talks were making progress, though not enough for a deal next Monday. Tsipras promised to do "whatever it takes in order to reach... an honest and mutually beneficial agreement with our partners", but gave no indication of yielding on the lenders' core demands for painful reforms.
The relentless payment schedule for The Greeks...
With Greece fast running out money, sources close to the talks with the International Monetary Fund, the European Commission and the European Central Bank said there was still no breakthrough on crucial sticking points over pension and labor market reforms and budget targets.
Tsipras, who has taken personal charge of the negotiations, told parliament in Athens: "I am confident that we will soon have a happy ending and that despite the difficulties... we will carry out the agreement which will be concluded soon in Europe."
The leftist leader said his government was "doing whatever it should in order to reach ... an honest and mutually beneficial agreement with our partners", but gave no indication of yielding on the lenders' core demands for painful reforms.
The government has said its "red lines" are that it will not make further pension cuts or legislate to ease layoffs in the private sector. It has given some ground on privatizations and value added tax but wide gaps remain.
In Rome, Eurogroup chairman Jeroen Dijsselbloem said Monday's meeting of finance ministers of the currency area would not be decisive, but negotiations were moving forward. Greece's partners would only consider debt relief once Athens committed to and completed its current bailout program, he said.
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As a reminder, Monday is D-Day, as Athens must make a €780 million payment to the IMF on Tuesday and unless the IMF agrees to effectively pay itself by loaning Greece more money, that payment will be missed at which point "all bets are off."
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I'm gonna need some confirmation that he will infact love the IMF for "rong time"
The IMF is going to give him pocket change the Greeks can believe in.
The we seeked a "happy ending" at our massage therapist. Had a cop pay we a visit.....
Hand jobs for everyone!
You are too US centric.
Happy endings for Greeks are getting it up the rear from the EU while getting their testicles fondled before they are crushed.
A chicken in every pot, a hand in every crotch...
All the EU 'extend and pretend' won't matter since the Greeks are bankrupt. The real plan is to load up the Greeks with enough phony debt untill all of their major assets are held by foreigners, then pull the plug.
If the Greeks had any balls - they would elect Mr. Panos as prime minister.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zvl9N9GdraQ
Maybe he's getting a BJ from LaGarde? Merkel?
Totally uncalled for. That is just plain gross! Not to mention shrinkage effect.
In China a haircut costs $2. Haircut with a Happy Ending: $25-50.
Adjust prices for Greece and Troika.
This PM turned out to be a bonafide, flash in the pan. What a fagit!
Cool handle....
Greece might well be the spot from which the great crash will originate. No other country is in this deep a hole, has a population used to a certian way of life they cannto change and the ruthless IMF breathing down their necks.
Just imagine, 10 years ago Athens hosted the olympics, and now this.
Burn the fucking money-changers system down.
But yeah, Greece might be the financial tinder-box they use to explode th esystem.
Mother of democracy and all that, let her kill her metastasized off-spring eh?
Meanwhile, Sonic Cleansing, Sequence 17:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BrvoWEw2J8
Cue the massage parlor jokes.
:)
It's a good thing the Greek's latest election changed everything. Can you imagine how bad it would be if they didn't have this guy fighting for them? Remember this in November and tell all your friends to get out and vote. It's their most important duty as a citizen.
I don't think a Tsipras R&T is gonna cover it.
Bust the joint out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPtjyqgZAUk&hd=1
End socialism in Hellas; that'll solve your problems.
Good luck with that, PM.
No need to 'end socialism', it will end itself...when the money is gone!
Greece will fold !
Alexis, don't forget to wear your vibrating butt plug while sucking cock for more money.
Surviving Progress| World Bankhttp://m.youtube.com/watch?v=186JorWpklo
Tsipra's press releases, alternately threatening, then begging, have a remarkable similarity to the gyrations of a junky to get more dope.
Looking at Greece's woes, it appears that the Greek Government is the problem, not the solution.
Sounds like he has looked over the cliff and decided he didn't like the view. When the choice is riots all summer long, or sipping ouzo on the beach for awhile longer, it's not hard to understand. Politicians always choose the path of least resistence. Full on collapse will come soon enough anyway.
Tsipras has been misquoted
He actually said, in a literal word-for-word translation,
"Greece will have a herpe ending",
meaning that it will either leave or be kicked out of the EU and the disease of European Union will finally be over....
How did a happy ending become a requirement. He should know if kept his promises that it would not end happy. Why the fuck does everyone think they're supposed to be and are entititled to be HAPPY? BULLSHIT the truth rarely make you happy.
Expect Greece to promise anything and implement nothing.
Same strategy as usual - signing a formular for the German and French account department to retard write-downs, to prolong the fiction of repayment to the voters and keep up fake statistics.
Greeks don't care anyway - but it'n not realy relevant in this negotiation. The paper is needed to facilitate new thefts - sorry - credits flowing the same day into the pockets of the financial mafia.
Banks convert their bad loans (...and companies their Ponzi-deals...) in real money plus interests. German tax payers pay for their exports - the yields are adressed to international stock holders, bankers & management.