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http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/markets/a-look-at-the-austerity-measures-greece-has-to-introd uce-before-getting-bailout/2012/02/14/gIQArPpBDR_story.html
Note, 300m in military cuts that weren't there on Thursday. The additional 25m is coming out of pensions.
It's there. Junker can pretend, but it's there.
Moving the goalposts again.
that was published tuesday.
Juncker postponed the meeting on Sunday evening.
Everyone knew of what the Greek vote consisted. It was an actual vote on the program. Ollie Rehn said late this afternoon that the meeting was on.
You're telling me that the meeting was postponed on Sunday and Ollie Rehn was not informed until today?
I'd like to see a source for that.
They are moving the goalposts no matter how much you wish to deny it.
The other issue is the 325m shortfall in savings. Kathimerini writes that the Greek cabinet examined a proposal to use cuts in defense spending, public investment funds and the health sector, but that this proposal was rejected by Euro Working Group -- low-level EU finance ministry officials who were meeting in Brussels on Tuesday. Kathimerini's sources said that the EU officials insisted that the additional savings should come from cuts to pensions.
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