And so a little truth gets out into the light of day: the ‘Troika’ sacrificed working people and the social fabric to shield the banks from having to absorb their deserved losses. The rest is our history. It didn’t have to be this way. It cannot continue. An interview worth watching on Keeptalkinggreece.com
“They gave money to save German and French banks, not Greece,” Paolo Batista,one of the Executive Directors of International Monetary Fund told Greek private Alpha TV on Tuesday. Batista strongly criticized not only the euro zone and the European Central Bank but also the IMF and the Fund’s managing Director Christine Lagarde for defending Europe much too much…
He urged Greece to directly negotiate with the IMF and favored the restructuring of the Greek debt that is being held by the European partners. Here is a direct video link.