This video, recorded in London, England, says about itself:
Greek man chokes back tears as he thanks Greece Solidarity campaigners
30 June 2015
Greek people speak ahead of Sunday’s historic bailout referendum.
From daily The Independent in Britain:
Greek debt crisis: ‘The dark forces of the EU have subjected Greece to a coup‘ – Caroline Lucas condemns austerity package
Green party MP joins hundreds of thousands of people on Twitter who use the #ThisIsACoup hashtag to protest against strict austerity measures
Matt Dathan, Online political reporter
Monday 13 July 2015
Caroline Lucas has condemned the “forces of darkness” of the EU for forcing a strict austerity package on Greece, claiming Athens had been subjected to a “coup”.
The Green party MP joined hundreds of thousands of people who took to Twitter to denounce the new measures, using the hashtag #ThisIsACoup.
Eurozone leaders completed a mammoth 17-hour meeting this morning and announced they had unanimously agreed to offer a third bailout worth €86bn to Greece in return for the debt-ridden country immediately bringing in a swathe of reforms to cut spending on pensions, raise tax revenues and liberalise the labour market.
But Ms Lucas said the new measures, which must be pushed through the Greek parliament by Wednesday, would cripple the country and said the democratic will of a country had been “superseded” by the forces of the EU, International Monetary Fund and European Central Bank.
Writing on her website, Ms Lucas said: “The oldest democracy in the world has been subjected to a coup. Over the course of just a few days the Greek Parliament is being forced to rush through emergency legislation to cut pensions, raise taxes and privatise swathes of the economy – without any time for genuine debate. The forces of darkness – the IMF, the Eurozone and the ECB – are subjecting an already deeply impoverished country to further needless cruelty. National sovereignty has, in effect, been suspended.
“A credible solution to Greece’s woes exists: European countries should come together to discuss ways to cancel at least some of the debt. It’s been done before – when Germany’s debts were cancelled after World War Two – and it should be done again.
“These are dark days for anyone who believes in democracy. The will of a nation has been superseded in favour of relentless, economically illiterate and socially destructive austerity. It’s time that politicians here in Britain, no matter where they stand on the economics of the Greek situation, take a stand for the simple right of a nation to manage its own affairs.”
From Sky News:
Paul Krugman, the Nobel-prize winning economist and austerity critic, said creditors’ demands on Greece “went beyond harsh into pure vindictiveness, leading to the complete destruction of national sovereignty with no hope of relief.”
He added: “It’s a grotesque betrayal of everything the European project was supposed to stand for.”
Italy’s prime minister Matteo Renzi said it was wrong for Germany to “humiliate” Greece.
He said: “Humiliating a European partner after Greece has given up on just about everything is unthinkable. To Germany I say: enough is enough.”
Germany has taken the lead in demanding the most onerous conditions for Greece, including proposals to effectively reduce Greece to semi-colonial status. Berlin is seeking not only to force Greece into line—or push it out of the euro zone—but to discipline the other major euro countries, France and Italy included: here.
The Guardian view on the Greek deal: it solves nothing and holds many dangers. Editorial. The Greek deal is unfair and unlikely to work. Far from easing the pace of austerity, the agreement embeds it: here.
IMF “trained” Greek journalists in Washington D.C. to spin stories in favor of IMF and European Commission: here.
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