• Even the Ex-Greek PM was a tax evader
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[quote]Greece's civil war over naming and shaming suspected tax evaders intensified following the claim by police that former prime minister George Papandreou's octogenarian mother was behind a Swiss bank account of mutual funds worth $550m (£342m). Citing high-level officials at the crisis-hit country's financial crime squad, SDOE, the two weeklies, To Vima and Proto Thema, named Papandreou as the primary beneficiary of one of the biggest accounts on the list of more than 2,000 wealthy Greeks with deposits in the Geneva branch of HSBC. The American issued a vehement denial. "Why such lies? Why such attacks? Is it because my family never served this country's interest groups?" she asked. As the furore deepened, Papandreou, who had four children, including George, with the late socialist prime minister Andrea Papandreou, received support from an unexpected corner. The editor of the magazine Hot Doc that sent shockwaves through Greece by publishing the list in October, rushed to her defence, brushing off the allegation as a dirty tactic by media barons bent on settling old scores.[/quote] Source: [url]http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/dec/03/greece-margaret-papandreou-swiss-account-allegations[/url] Have a bonus too: [img]http://i.imgur.com/ZAKrU.png[/img]
My country is in deep shit and I don't see them coming out of it anytime soon, good thing i left :v:
Being that I live in Crete, it's interesting to see how everyone responds to these problems. Everyone blames the Germans; I'm not even lying.
[QUOTE=Bredirish123;38707058]Being that I live in Crete, it's interesting to see how everyone responds to these problems. Everyone blames the Germans; I'm not even lying.[/QUOTE] What kinda train of thought are they following?
[QUOTE=nickohlus;38707844]What kinda train of thought are they following?[/QUOTE] Germany hasn't paid our WWII Reparations, and have put a stranglehold on us with the Euro!
[QUOTE=Bredirish123;38708077]Germany hasn't paid our WWII Reparations, and have put a stranglehold on us with the Euro![/QUOTE] So they're not even [B]TRYING[/B] to check if they haven't fucked up themselves?
[QUOTE=Van-man;38710797]So they're not even [B]TRYING[/B] to check if they haven't fucked up themselves?[/QUOTE] Not really, just about everyone I have talked to about the current situation either blames the corrupt politicians or the Germans/EU; yet these are the same tax dodging individuals who think that by leaving the Euro it will unfuck everything.
And who's paying all the debts? The Dutch... As usual... (we pay the most per capita by far AND we're not getting it back!) Since when are we the cash cow?
[QUOTE=Mega1mpact;38711271]And who's paying all the debts? The Dutch... As usual... (we pay the most per capita by far AND we're not getting it back!) Since when are we the cash cow?[/QUOTE] It's kind of sad looking at Greece and wondering what all that money is doing. It's definitely not going to education or infrastructure. As beautiful as the city of Chania is, it has some of the poorest infrastructure I've seen in any country.
[QUOTE=Bredirish123;38711402]It's kind of sad looking at Greece and wondering what all that money is doing. It's definitely not going to education or infrastructure. As beautiful as the city of Chania is, it has some of the poorest infrastructure I've seen in any country.[/QUOTE] Honestly I'm for a law that allows the EU to temporarily take over a country (1-2 years) if 70% or more of the EU agrees with it. This will allow the EU to straighten up countries like Greece without having to deal with national democracy. Yes this sounds harsh but it is really one of the final options we have at the moment.Of course there should be restrictions on what laws etc can be adjusted and made when the EU 'seizes' a country for a temporary amount of time.
I think something needs to be done; the problem with the EU is that all of these countries are on the same currency but have completely different ways of managing their economies. Greece really needs to straighten their shit up but I honestly don't see it happening. It'll get to the point that the economy just implodes on itself. I know multiple people who have been completely fucked by the austerity measures. A nurse I know went from making 1400€ per month to only 600€. Then there's the countless strikes that keep happening regularly. Over the last month we hadn't had trash services, so up by all the bins was literally a mountain of garbage pouring into the streets.
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