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25. Greece Really Is Going To Start Selling Off Islands
Thu Aug 23, 2012, 09:45 AM
Aug 2012
http://www.businessinsider.com/greece-island-sale-2012-8

THE PRIME MINISTER of Greece has made a surprise announcement to Le Monde newspaper: that his country is ready to put some of its uninhabited islands up for sale.
According to the French publication today, PM Antonis Samaris makes the admission in a lengthy interview – a synopsis of it can be viewed on Le Monde’s website. In the introduction, the reporter Alain Salles notes that Greece hopes to accelerate the privatisation (of some State assets) and is ready to give up uninhabited islands (underlined in red):
It’s part of Samaras’s plan to try and pull Greece back from the brink of total meltdown as it tried to meet the terms of its bailout agreement.
German MPs told Greece to sell the islands two years ago – this is what they said then:
What is most interesting about this revelation – apart from the speculation about what wealthy individual might be the new owner of a private Mediterranean island or two – is the fact that this idea was mooted to Greece two years ago… by the Germans.


Read more: http://www.thejournal.ie/greece-sell-uninhabitated-islands-569415-Aug2012/#ixzz24NQOIz6P

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