Tyskland överväger nya grekiska nödlån för att rädda bankerna
Wall Street Journal rapporterar att Tyskland överväger att överge sin påtryckning om att grekiska obligationsinnehavare skall dela på bördan och gå med på fortsatta nödlån oavsett, trots att detta går tvärtemot den inhemska opinionen och därmed med all sannolikhet innebär slutet för Merkel.
Inte för att detta kommer som någon direkt överraskning, då det återigen visar på hur oerhört angelägna De Styrande är av att se om sina egna, dvs bankerna, som annars skulle drabbas hårt. Tro inte för en sekund att fortsatta lån till Grekland handlar om något annat. Ni kommer kanske ihåg vad som händer om vi får se en grekisk default.
Här är ett utdrag från Wall Street Journal:
Germany is considering dropping its push for an early rescheduling of Greek bonds in order to facilitate a new package of aid loans for Greece, according to people familiar with the matter.
Berlin’s concession that it must lend Greece more money, even without burden-sharing by bondholders in the short term, would help Europe overcome its impasse over Greece’s funding needs before the indebted country runs out of cash in mid-July.
But some officials in Berlin hope that a short-term fix can be found that would allow a full deal including a bond rescheduling later this year.
Euro-zone officials have acknowledged for weeks that Greece will face a shortfall in financing of around €30 billion ($43 billion) a year in 2012 and 2013—even after a €110 billion bailout agreed last year. But agreement on how those gaps should be filled is proving difficult, thanks to growing political opposition in northern Europe to bailouts of profligate countries such as Greece.
Germany has for weeks argued that private investors in Greek bonds should, in some way, bear part of the burden of any new bailout package for Athens. But the European Central Bank staunchly opposes any form of debt restructuring. Meanwhile the International Monetary Fund is demanding clarity on Greece’s 2012 funding before it releases money that Greece needs to get through this summer.
Officials from the ECB, the IMF and the European Commission are currently in Athens to find a way to generate additional cash—including for the Greek government to generate more money on its own. The so-called “troika” are expected to issue their conclusions by early next week, officials said.
Greece’s government Monday stepped up preparations for billions of euros of new spending cuts, tax rises and privatizations that it plans to unveil in the next few days even as widespread public opposition to the measures continued to mount on the streets of Athens.
Och här är en försmak på hur det kommer se ut när De Styrande låter sina hantlangare påbörja utförsäljningen av grekiska tillgångar:


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