Tag: eurozone

Finns Want to Leave the Eurozone

Finnish Markka In a country of 5 million people, 50 thousand is a lot of signatures. Sputnik : A campaign for Finland to leave the Eurozone has gained more than 50,000 signatures for its proposal, the number of votes that forces parliament to debate its…

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“Oxi”

Hellenic Oxichan has arrived in your zone. Your fortune: Happening. Greece has said no. By a wide margin. Even while polls showed that 75% wanted to stay in the Euro . They want to stay in the Euro they just don’t want to pay these…

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D-Day in Greece: Nai or Oxi?

It is D-Day in Greece. If this is even real, which is debatable. It may well be that Greeks will vote “no” and then the IMF will just offer new terms which aren’t quite as brutal. My hope is for a full exit, obviously. Maybe…

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Greece: Brace Yourselves – It’s Happening.

Hell appears to be opening up in Greece. There is a run on ATMs, they were emptied and now they’ve shut them off and haven’t given a time they’ll open them up again. They are going into capital controls. BBC : It was more or…

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Syriza Wins in Greece

Syriza leader Alexis Tsipras said: “Today the people of Greece wrote history.” How cute. This is a serious happening. BBC : Anti-austerity Syriza party has won Greece’s general election, putting the country on a possible collision course with the EU over its massive bailout. With…

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Greece: Syriza is Going to Win

You should have listened. Though we’ll have coverage of this tomorrow when the ball officially drops, it is now completely indisputable that Syriza is going to win in Greece. Reuters : Greece’s anti-bailout Syriza party has widened its lead over the ruling conservatives to 6.7…

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