tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26981669.post2665906662508943228..comments2024-03-23T10:55:30.196-05:00Comments on Cold Fusion Guy: Greece to Hold Referendum on Eurozone debt dealJim Peethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07649414726939918803noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26981669.post-27281524871633085722011-11-01T09:39:48.766-05:002011-11-01T09:39:48.766-05:00JP: More
Greek referendum a deal-breaker, Dutch ...JP: More <br /><br /><a href="http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Europe-crisis-plans-at-risk-apf-2714136735.html?x=0&sec=topStories&pos=2&asset=&ccode=" rel="nofollow">Greek referendum a deal-breaker, Dutch MP says</a><br /><br />Excerpt:<br /><br /><i>"It's a deal-breaker," said party financial spokesman Ronald Plasterk of Greek Prime Minister' George Papandreou's shock decision to call a referendum on the deal.<br /><br />"It can't be so that 17 countries sit down together to talk about a package to save the Greek economy and that we then have to wait until January to open an email to see if Greece wants it."<br /><br />The Dutch parliament is debating the EU agreement Tuesday.<br /><br /></i>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26981669.post-82715768957853956742011-11-01T08:50:09.582-05:002011-11-01T08:50:09.582-05:00JP: Greek vote would be on euro membership: Finnis...JP: <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/11/01/us-finland-greece-idUSTRE7A010N20111101" rel="nofollow">Greek vote would be on euro membership: Finnish minister</a><br /><br /><i>"The situation is so tight that basically it would be a vote over their euro membership," Alexander Stubb, the Finnish minister of European affairs and foreign trade, said in an interview with Finnish broadcaster MTV3.<br /><br />Stubb said Greece had committed to the summit decision.<br /><br />"Greece has committed to a new program which includes structural reforms. All of a sudden, if they vote against those reforms, then Greece is the one who violated the agreement," he said.<br /><br />He added no bailout aid would be deployed if Greece dodged from the required reforms.<br /><br />The latest opinion poll showed a majority of Greeks took a negative view of the bailout deal.<br /><br />Euro zone leaders last week agreed to hand Greece a second, 130-billion-euro bailout with 50-percent write-down on its debt.<br /><br /></i>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com