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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGreece’s Troubles Attract Little Sympathy From Poorer Neighbors
SOFIA, Bulgaria Throughout months of acrimonious haggling with creditors, Greeces left-wing government has cast itself as the victim of an elitist financial and political order beholden to Europes stingy rich, notably Germans.
Some of the most resolute opponents of cutting Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and his Syriza Party any slack, however, have been Europes most deprived nations, places like Bulgaria, the European Unions poorest member, and Baltic States blighted by decades of Soviet-imposed penury.
We are much poorer than the Greeks, but we have performed reforms, Rosen Plevneliev, the president of Bulgaria, a northern neighbor of Greece, said in an interview. When you have a problem, you have to address it and not shift it to Brussels or onto somebody else, he said, deriding Syrizas complaints that Europe had let Greece down.
The left-leaning Syriza Party has won applause from a host of mostly small left-wing groups in Europe for bucking what they condemn as the tyranny of greed-fueled markets and elitist technocrats. It has also been cheered by right-wing insurgents like Marine Le Pen, leader of the National Front in France, who rejoice at Greeces troubles and see them as proof that Europes established order is crumbling.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/30/world/europe/greeces-troubles-attract-little-sympathy-from-poorer-neighbors.html?_r=0
stevenleser
(32,886 posts)shenmue
(38,501 posts)I don't laugh at anybody's economic collapse.
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Igel
(35,191 posts)Except for the 1%, of course.
Then again, the assurance came in the form of an article that interviewed one couple. It would have been misleading and manipulative for them to have done anything but produce a fairly typical example instead of an outlier.
I guess, though, they had a couple. And when the headline spoke about "Greeks having nothing" those were the two it had in mind. Whatever the headline is likely going to be interpreted to mean.