Peter Spiegel: "How Greece lost credibility"

Peter Spiegel is the well-known journalist who signs in recent days the telltale reports of the Financial Times for the strong political background that marked the management of Greek debt crisis by the European in critical years 2011 and 2012.

Spiegel, the director of the Financial Times in Brussels, reveals in NEWSBOMB another occult aspect of what we experienced at that time. Referring to the period of May 2011 to July 2011, when George Papandreou was still Prime Minister George, he describes the reaction of Brussels in the desperate move of the former Prime Minister to "reshape" the government, giving the crucial portfolio of the Ministry of Finance to Evangelos Venizelos.

The testimony is informative: "When the "old guard" of PASOK appeared, with Venizelos to take the Ministry of Finance, the Greek government has lost any credibility in Brussels. I believe that Athens completely lost the weight which carried during negotiations."

Peter Spiegel adds: "I remember the first meeting of the Eurogroup when Venizelos appeared. He came and said: "These are the things we do. We will do this and that... ". Olli Rehn, the gentler man in the world, turned and said, "Sorry, sir. You would not do this. You do not understand how it's done".

The journalist of F.T. continues: "From that day the credibility of Greek government had been simply lost. Was it a mistake of Papandreou? Was it an inner drama within PASOK which had just unfolded? Partly, both. I think that they did not recognize what Papandreou did in the early stages of the program and probably should criticize him about how led the government out of control at the end of his term. "

As shown, the following period, the testimonies of those who lived through the events of that period will follow each other, and many skeletons will come out of the closet, for many...
T.P.