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"en.20150225.14.3-159-000"2
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"Listening to all that has gone on in the past week as the new Greek government negotiated for its life and the lives of its citizens with the other members of the Eurogroup, I was struck by one thought: in all the barometers for ‘success’ used by Mr Dijsselbloem and the other austerity hawks, where is the measure for human suffering? In fact I’d go further – where is the humanity?
Questioning Mr Dijsselbloem in the ECON meeting yesterday, Dimitrios Papadimoulis MEP – who sees it all first-hand – outlined some of those human sufferings: ‘You know very well that the (existing) programme caused 25% recession in the Greek economy and a huge humanitarian crisis – over 25% unemployment, 2 500 000 Greeks living below the poverty line, nine out of 10 Greeks unemployed who don’t receive a cent of unemployment allowance…’
His words, however, fell on deaf ears. ‘Fiscal targets, 3%, 60%’, that’s all Mr Dijsselbloem understands; all the suffering and misery caused? Collateral damage.
It leads to the question – is the EU a community of peoples governed by elected politicians, or simply a company run by cold-blooded bureaucrats, technocrats, economists and accountants?"@en1
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