by Martin Foehler
and Alberto Paez
The suspension of Greece's debt relief short-term measures was a unilateral
decision by the German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schauble. The spokesperson
of Eurogroup's head Jeroun Dijsselbloem tweeted last week the so-called
"decision" on suspension. No decision was ever taken by the
Eurogroup on that direction, no press release was ever issued by the ESM,
thus it was a breach of last Eurogroup's (December 5) unanimous decision to
deal with Greece's debt relief measures.
This development was something unique for Eurozone and the EU, as collective
agreements were blatantly violated by Germany. Finance Minister Schauble,
along with the IMF, are eagerly working to impose a specific project for Greece
other than what has been agreed in the framework of Greece's third bailout
deal.
The scope of Schauble and IMF is one and simple: to see the Greek program
fail, the Greek government to
adopt new austerity measures and damage all the efforts and positive
developments that have taken place since August 2015. Essentially, as we have written during the previous weeks, the goal of both sides is..............
