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Anyone suggesting this as a reason Greece would have been better off outside the EU is out of their mind. As poorly as the EU performed during the financial cri
by addicted 8y ago
Anyone suggesting this as a reason Greece would have been better off outside the EU is out of their mind. As poorly as the EU performed during the financial crisis, nearly every member of the EU was better off inside rather than outside. There is a reason Turkey is so keen to get into the EU even after the crisis.
Also, while it’s correct the British media has been using the mistakes the EU made during the financial crisis (which were the same as the mistakes the British made, who self-imposed austerity and continue to do so), the reality is none of these actually apply to the UK which has its own currency and as a result has/had dramatically more financial freedom.
The UK essentially had the best of the EU and had avoided the worst of it. It’s amazinf that they voluntarily gave up that deal.
- StavrosK 8y ago> nearly every member of the EU was better off inside rather than outside Is this true of current-day Greece (and future Greece, since things are only getting worse)?
- tonyedgecombe 8y agoThe Greeks seem to think so. In fact if I was Greek I would want to stay in the Euro zone (but keep my money in a German bank).
- AnaniasAnanas 8y agoRemember this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_bailout_referendum,_2015 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_bailout_referendum,_2015 A "no" vote was seen as a "leave from the Euro zone" vote by the average citizen. It was the Greek government that ignored the referendum, not the Greeks.
- tonyedgecombe 8y agoA "no" vote was seen as a "leave from the Euro zone" That wasn't what was on the ballot paper.
- pbhjpbhj 8y ago>There is a reason Turkey is so keen to get into the EU even after the crisis. // Keen in the way a person who is shovelling doughnuts in to their face is keen to lose weight. They've done basically zero about major flaws that prevent their entry; indeed rather than stop human rights offenses Erdogan has multiplied them.
- jacobush 8y agoIs the Erdogan Turkey really keen on the EU? To me, it seems more like Erdogan played the EU card to get internal and external critics off his back - and now that he has "consolidated" his support at home, he doesn't need the EU card, also you can only play it out so many times before it gets old.