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Germany, the country that "bailed out" Greece the hardest, made big returns from it: 2.9 billion Euro since 2010 alone, with more profits on the horizon [1]. Ge

by foepys 8y ago

Germany, the country that "bailed out" Greece the hardest, made big returns from it: 2.9 billion Euro since 2010 alone, with more profits on the horizon [1]. German defense contractors also sold some submarines even though Greece was effectively not able to buy them [2] and some regional Greek airports were bought by a large German airport company [3]. You can't deny that at least Germany made hefty profits from "bailing out" Greece. Sources in German (maybe DeepL can help translate): 1: http://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/soziales/griechenland-hilfe-deutschland-macht-2-9-milliarden-euro-gewinn-a-1214134.html http://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/soziales/griechenland-hilfe... 2: https://www.heise.de/tp/features/Griechische-Milliarden-fuer-deutsche-U-Boote-3386247.html https://www.heise.de/tp/features/Griechische-Milliarden-fuer... 3: https://www.tagesspiegel.de/wirtschaft/griechenland-fraport-kauft-14-regionalflughaefen/12202008.html https://www.tagesspiegel.de/wirtschaft/griechenland-fraport-...

claudius 8y ago
So far and iff Greece does pay back the remaining debt. It’s not entirely uncommon for a lender to make some money from interest before the other party defaults and the lender loses its investment. Could you explain why this is controversial? Should Germany have donated funds to make up for the mismanagement of the Greek government?
- foepys 8y ago
  It isn't controversial for me. I think it's correct to make a bit of money off of it, especially after Greece lied their way into the EU with fraudulent accounting. However, GGP said that the EU more or less donated money to Greece and that is just not factually correct. In fact, GGP is also wrong in indirectly claiming that subsidies are bad. Every country on earth gives out subsidies to its economy and as the EU acts like a country in many ways (esp. wrt trade), it should give out subsidies to its economy. GGP just tried to bash the EU with baseless arguments, as it almost always happens in such threads.

by foepys 8y ago

claudius 8y ago

So far and iff Greece does pay back the remaining debt. It’s not entirely uncommon for a lender to make some money from interest before the other party defaults and the lender loses its investment. Could you explain why this is controversial? Should Germany have donated funds to make up for the mismanagement of the Greek government?

foepys 8y ago
It isn't controversial for me. I think it's correct to make a bit of money off of it, especially after Greece lied their way into the EU with fraudulent accounting. However, GGP said that the EU more or less donated money to Greece and that is just not factually correct. In fact, GGP is also wrong in indirectly claiming that subsidies are bad. Every country on earth gives out subsidies to its economy and as the EU acts like a country in many ways (esp. wrt trade), it should give out subsidies to its economy. GGP just tried to bash the EU with baseless arguments, as it almost always happens in such threads.