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They've got to pass four pieces of detailed and complex legislation with 48 hours notice - I doubt very much it will get through. It's an horrendous corruption of democracy - how can 48 hours be enough to properly scrutinize and debate that legislation let alone ensure there aren't any mistakes...

Interesting. I share the authors sentiments. The EU has already forced the change of one democratically elected leader of Greece ( and Italy ) and no doubt will now force the current PM from power at some point. It's strange that so many people are blind to the EUs lack of following democratic...

Proud of making the 200,000 poorest Greek pensioners even poorer ? Proud of a deal that will cost many more Greeks their jobs thus pushing the 25% unemployment rate ( 50% of young people ) even higher ? No thanks, I'd rather not even be associated with being European as it stands.

And in a slightly less fashionable way - i.e. no tweet format - by ignoring how the Nazi's came to power risks the EU repeating history. The Germans were severely financially punished after WWI and the poverty and repression led to the direct rise of the far right. Greece already has a very left...

#TypicalProEULetsNotLearnFromHistorylLetsJustForgetItEverHappened

An interesting article - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-33503330 I was most taken by this bit : "Will the rise and rise of populist anti-EU parties all over Europe be staunched or encouraged by reports that an EU official described Mr Tsipras's treatment by other EU leaders as the...

If this mate of mine had previously written off some of the money I borrowed from him then I would return the favour.

#GreecewroteoffGermanWWIIdebtsbutGermanywon'treturnthefavour ...... and it's bloody difficult not using the spacebar !

#EUStitchUp

I guessed it was but GDP doesn't measure wealth or ability to pay - the countries with more people are generally going to have a larger GDP but not necessarily be as wealthy as other smaller countries. As I said, the Eurozone is a basket case glued together by political blindness, greed and...

Some surprising figures there. So one of the faltering economies - i.e. Italy - is the third highest contributor along with Spain, also in trouble, in forth spot ?? While Luxemburg with all it's banking wealth and tax haven income contributes a small fraction more than Cyprus who nearly went...

The good news is that the cracks are beginning to show ....

Maybe the solution might be to calculate what todays value of the debt Greece wrote off for Germany was and take that off what they owe to Germany ? Oh, silly me, the Germans are too arrogant to do that.

Nope, I'll criticise you for your blind and almost evangelical support for the EU, France and Germany who are equally culpable in this farce. So on one side we have a irresponsible set of Greek governments and on the other the corrupt EU. Stuck in the middle are the normal Greek people who are...

How nice of them ..... they clearly have very short memories !!!! So we didn't need to world wars for the Germans to control Europe, we've just given it to them.

You're twisting what I posted - I didn't comment on it being possible for Greece to be kicked out and nor did the Spanish minister - he suggested Greece couldn't DECIDE to leave voluntarily. Which of course is utter rubbish - they only need to create their own currency and away they go. Whether...

And there is a perfect example of two things : 1. The EU not even able to agree what the rules are. Some have said Greece could drop out and now this fella saying it's impossible to drop out. 2. The arrogance of the EU thinking that a country can't decide to leave the eurozone - of course they...

I don't doubt the sentiment of your post but I'm pretty sure Barclays didn't receive a public bailout - it went back to the markets for investment and had billions pumped in from the oil rich Middle East backers.

It's not that straight forward though. The UK is a Union yet there are different rules, regulations and laws in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland and generally that seems to work. Yet the EU seems to think that everyone should have the same rules etc. They take no account of...

You mean the EU can't allow democracy ? I guess you're right - just look at those countries that dared to vote against the Lisbon Treaty ! Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha - errr, audited accounts ? Receipted expenses ?