Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras told parliament on Sunday that Germany had a “moral obligation” to bail out Greece because of the Nazis. The far left Greek Prime Minister rejected “cruel” austerity plans that were forced on Greece by the European Union.
Alan Greenspan today predicted Greece’s exit from the EU.
Euro drops below $1.13 as Greenspan predicts #Grexit & sees other countries to leave #Eurozone http://t.co/bfbFtSzfEH pic.twitter.com/6AAEM8QE7u
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The AFP reported:
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said Sunday the country had a “moral obligation” to claim reparations from Germany for the damages wrought by the Nazis during World War II.
Greece had “a moral obligation to our people, to history, to all European peoples who fought and gave their blood against Nazism,” he said in a key address to parliament.
Berlin has already sounded a firm “no” to requests for reparations nearly 70 years after the end of the war, but Tsipras and his radical left party have vowed to tackle the issue.
“Our historical obligation is to claim the occupation loan and reparations,” the new PM said, referring to Germany’s four-year occupation of Greece and a war-time loan which the Third Reich forced the Greek central bank to give it which ruined the country financially.
Tsipras’s anti-austerity Syriza party claims Germany owes it around 162 billion euros ($183 billion) — or around half the country’s public debt, which stands at over 315 billion euros.
GREENSPAN PREDICTS COLLAPSE OF EURO… http://t.co/ojYNzaaHL6
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