Gheorghe Gradinaru

February 24

Here both sides are to blame. Berlin is indeed overly fixated on austerity, just as Greece wants to live in a world where it can spend money like a drunken sailor. But it is only slow, painful, structural reform – particularly labour market and pensions reform – that can truly transform Greece and the rest of Europe; and that will take years. The best-case deal would be for the north to relax its obsession with the Greek primary surplus – allowing it to fall to around 1.5 per cent of GDP as Varoufakis wants – in return for iron-clad and non-negotiable commitments to structural reform over the next half decade.

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  Prospectiv A-z .
  "But it is only slow, painful, structural reform – particularly labour market and pensions reform – that can truly transform Greece and the rest of Europe; and that will take years." 
  
  Basescu-Boc ar fi rezolvat asta intre doua partide. De table.

  
  
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  Smaranda Dobrescu Un articol bun al lui Galbraith, scris astazi. Syriza ar fi fost de acord cu 70% din programul de reforme. Celelalte 30 procente ramase ar fi saracit tara odata in plus prin aplicare si ar fi de neacceptat nu neaparat de un partid al stangii radicale, dar de niciun alt partid realist:
  "The remaining “thirty percent” fell mainly into three areas: fiscal targets, fire-sale privatizations and labor-law changes. The fiscal target of a 4.5 percent “primary surplus” was a dog as everyone would admit in private. The new government does not oppose privatizations per se; it opposes those that set up price-gouging private monopolies and it opposes fire sales that fail to bring in much money. Labor law reform is a more basic disagreement – but the position of the Greek government is in line with ILO standards, and that of the “programme” was not.
  
  http://www.socialeurope.eu/2015/02/greek-deal/

  

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