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Eurozone ministers reject Greek bailout extension: sources
AFP via Yahoo News ^ | 06/27/15

Posted on 06/27/2015 8:25:22 AM PDT by Enlightened1

urozone finance ministers refused Saturday to extend Greece's bailout programme past June 30 after Athens called a referendum on reform proposals by creditors, sources told AFP.

The ministers "rejected an extension of the aid programme" at a meeting in Brussels, hours after Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras called the plebiscite on the bailout proposal for July 5.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: bailout; eu; greece; reject

1 posted on 06/27/2015 8:25:22 AM PDT by Enlightened1
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Eurozone finance ministers refused Saturday to extend Greece’s bailout programme past June 30 after Athens called a referendum on reform proposals by creditors, sources told AFP.

The ministers “rejected an extension of the aid programme” at a meeting in Brussels, hours after Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras called the plebiscite on the bailout proposal for July 5.


2 posted on 06/27/2015 8:25:59 AM PDT by Enlightened1
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Eurozone ministers reject Greek bailout extension: sources

Sources=front runners. Although anymore, gold is usually hammered on any news.

3 posted on 06/27/2015 8:30:22 AM PDT by Stentor ("The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.")
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Let Greece go under! The idea that somehow the Greek “citizens,” (i.e. worthless welfare recipients) should get to vote on whether they want to continue to be paid to sit on their asses in perpetuity is laughable!


4 posted on 06/27/2015 8:32:18 AM PDT by vette6387
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They’ll inevitably become a Russian colony and Putin and Co. buy up the Greek assets on the cheap.


5 posted on 06/27/2015 8:33:55 AM PDT by dfwgator
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Let the Greeks go bankrupt. They deserve it.

Hope the Prime Minister get his butt kicked.

6 posted on 06/27/2015 8:39:36 AM PDT by Cowboy Bob (Isn't it funny that Socialists never want to share their own money?)
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"I say, 'Let 'Em Crash!'"

7 posted on 06/27/2015 8:40:53 AM PDT by dfwgator
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So what happens when Greece goes bankrupt?

Do they sell it at auction?

I hear the Chinese are offering cash...


8 posted on 06/27/2015 8:44:01 AM PDT by BlueNgold (May I suggest a very nice 1788 Article V with your supper...)
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Nah, they migrate to other countries like they, and other peoples have done.

Germany has some great Greek restaurants.

Perhaps they will flood Africa and start anew.

9 posted on 06/27/2015 8:48:46 AM PDT by Theoria (I should never have surrendered. I should have fought until I was the last man alive)
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Time’s up!

On the bright side, once Greece defaults and goes back to the Drachma, I figure in a few weeks that currency will be at Zimbabwe levels; time to go buy myself that nice villa overlooking the Aegean for, I figure, about $15.99.

Woot!


10 posted on 06/27/2015 9:13:25 AM PDT by AnAmericanAbroad (It's all bread and circuses for the future prey of the Morlocks.)
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They threatened to join Russia.


11 posted on 06/27/2015 9:15:22 AM PDT by A CA Guy ( God Bless America, God Bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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They’ve threatened a lot of things.

For that scenario to happen, Greece would actually have to leave the EU proper. A default simply crashes Greece out of the Eurozone (in theory - there is actually no mechanism for expelling a country from the Eurozone....presumably, I guess no one ever thought it could happen or something. So what happens next really is anyone’s guess!) not the EU itself.


12 posted on 06/27/2015 9:18:42 AM PDT by AnAmericanAbroad (It's all bread and circuses for the future prey of the Morlocks.)
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This has had more ups and downs than a sports superstar’s contract negotiation. The saying to big to fail might apply here.


13 posted on 06/27/2015 9:21:16 AM PDT by McGruff (It's getting ugly around here.)
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The ministers "rejected an extension of the aid programme" at a meeting in Brussels, hours after Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras called the plebiscite on the bailout proposal for July 5.

The biggest problem for the EU isn't the terms. It's the idea that the little people will have any say over what their betters do.

14 posted on 06/27/2015 10:01:28 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (The 1st amendment is the voice and the 2nd is the teeth of freedom. Obama wants to knock out both.)
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