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lunasun

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1. This is what happens when the IMF and the bankers goes country shopping
Thu Oct 18, 2012, 08:07 PM
Oct 2012

could happen here someday when we are a sale item
we will never follow Iceland
now too late+ too much invested

Under intense pressure from international creditors at the EU and IMF, Samaras' fragile coalition has been forced to draw up a draconian package of spending cuts worth €13.5bn – the price of a whopping €31.5bn loan instalment that is already four months overdue
Officials have suggested the burden will fall on society's most vulnerable with pensioners and low-income Greeks once again having to make the biggest sacrifices.

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