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The main point is, if you try to repay your debts, make massive cuts, push through reforms while your social fabric is tearing and your people are despairing, if you restructure your debt so that, in effect, you move any court-related contingencies from Athens to London, if you do all this simply to wipe only $25 billion from your load--and in the end you are expelled for all your (albeit shortsighted) efforts, then the markets will very well determine that the possibility of "failure" in other countries is great.
by Upstate NY on Fri May 11th, 2012 at 11:02:25 AM EST
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I think Tsipras should do an interview on German TV.
by rootless2 on Fri May 11th, 2012 at 11:10:35 AM EST
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He will have to be very well prepared, and not get off track, with predetermined sound bites and answers to german-oriented questioning.

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Anaïs Nin
by Crazy Horse on Fri May 11th, 2012 at 11:52:00 AM EST
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Perhaps he should send Yanis Varoufakis to make the case for Greece.

As the Dutch said while fighting the Spanish: "It is not necessary to have hope in order to persevere."
by ARGeezer (ARGeezer a in a circle eurotrib daught com) on Sat May 12th, 2012 at 07:28:11 PM EST
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