Monday, February 9, 2015

Tsipras Demands WWII Reparations from Germany

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras set out his government's legislative program in his first major speech to the Greek parliament on Sunday, which he used to maintain his administration's rejection of the country's bailout terms, and claim that in fact Germany owes his country billions of Euros in war reparations....

Greece has "a moral obligation to our people, to history, to all European peoples who fought and gave their blood against Nazism", to demand Germany pay back a loan which the Nazis forced from the Greek central bank during the war, as well as war reparations, the media reports Tsipras said in his speech.

  • Last year Syriza announced it had "precisely calculated" using data from the Bank of Greece that Germany, the country's biggest creditor, owes Greece €162 billion without interest as a result of the loan imposed by the Third Reich.
Germany has already rejected any prospective demand from Greece for reparations, with German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble telling the Neue Osnabrucker Zeitung in 2013 that he considers such statements to be "irresponsible," and that "much more important than misleading people with such stories would be to explain and spell out the reform path."

In Berlin on Thursday, Schäuble held a joint press conference with Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis at which the latter made reference to the rise of the Nazis in Germany and warned of the dangers of fascism in his country if Greek society continues to face the pressures of austerity. Varoufakis had already in a TV interview shortly before the meeting compared Greece's situation with that of Weimar Germany and the rise of Hitler.

"When I return home tonight," said Varoufakis on Thursday after his meeting with Schäuble, "I shall find myself in a parliament in which the third-largest party is not a neo-Nazi party, it is a Nazi party," referring to the Golden Dawn party.  "Germany must be proud of the fact that Nazism has been eradicated here," he also remarked.......................Read more: http://sputniknews.com/europe/20150209/1017996385.html#ixzz3RFWeUNtP

9/2/15
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2 comments:

  1. Tsipras réclame encore la «dette de guerre» aux Allemands...

    Alexis Tsipras n'a pas été refroidi après sa tournée européenne de la semaine dernière. Dimanche, à l'occasion de son discours de politique générale déclaré devant un parterre de 300 nouveaux élus du Parlement, le premier ministre grec a renouvelé son objectif de lutter contre l'austérité qui touche la Grèce. Dans son discours émaillé d'envolées sur le thème de «la fierté nationale» rendue aux Grecs par le nouveau gouvernement de gauche radicale Syriza, Alexis Tsipras s'est engagé «à construire une nouvelle Grèce économiquement indépendante, souveraine, traitant d'égal à égal dans l'Union européenne et la zone euro».

    Alexis Tsipras compte toujours négocier un allégement de la dette. «C'est une question d'honneur et de respect», déclare le nouvel homme fort du gouvernement grec. Et d'ajouter: «la décision inébranlable du gouvernement est d'honorer toutes ses promesses». Le premier ministre grec a énuméré devant le Parlement les mesures, qui risquent de contrarier les homologues de la zone euro, avant une nouvelle semaine à haut risque:

    ● La dette de guerre allemande dans le collimateur

    Le premier ministre grec ne change pas son fusil d'épaule. Malgré la réponse glaciale lancée par Berlin la semaine dernière, Alexis Tsipras se base toujours sur un accord signé en 1953 sur une partie de la dette contractée par la RFA pour mettre la pression sur les instances européennes. L'état-major allemand s'appuie sur des arguments juridiques pour contrecarrer les velléités grecques.

    Alexis Tsipras en fait un argument de négociation: la Grèce a «l'obligation morale et historique» de réclamer à l'Allemagne des indemnités de guerre, auxquelles elle a échappé à la fin de la deuxième guerre mondiale.

    Il a aussi demandé le remboursement du prêt imposé par les nazis à la Banque de Grèce. Au total, il y en aurait pour l'équivalent de la moitié de la dette grecque...........................http://www.lefigaro.fr/conjoncture/2015/02/09/20002-20150209ARTFIG00158-tsipras-reclame-encore-la-dette-de-guerre-aux-allemands.php
    9/2/15

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  2. Germany rejects Greek claim for World War Two reparations...

    (Reuters) - Germany said on Monday there was "zero" chance of it paying World War Two reparations to Athens, following a renewed demand from Greece's new leftist Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras.

    Tsipras, in his first major speech to parliament on Sunday, laid out plans to dismantle Greece's austerity program, ruled out any extension of its 240 billion euro international bailout and vowed to seek war reparations from Berlin.

    The demand for compensation, revived by a previous Greek government in 2013 but not pursued, was rejected outright by Sigmar Gabriel, Germany's vice chancellor and economy minister.

    "The probability is zero," said Gabriel, when asked if Germany would make such payments to Greece, adding a treaty signed 25 years ago had wrapped up all such claims.........................http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/02/09/us-eurozone-greece-germany-reparations-idUSKBN0LD1Q720150209?feedType=RSS&feedName=worldNews
    9/2/15

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