Europe - the 'laughingstock of the WORLD’

Greece mendapati dirinya lagi terhenti lain dengan mogok besar-besaran dijalankan sebagai pemeriksa IMF membayar 1 lagi lawatan menyelesaikan hutang ke Athens. Tetapi "IMF" bukan merupakan 1 kaedah yang produktif menyelesaikan krisis, ekonomi, Yanis Varoufakis kepada RT.

Kira-kira 12,000 orang telah mengambil jalan-jalan di tengah-tengah Athens dalam 2 perhimpunan yang dianjurkan oleh Parti Komunis Yunani dan Gabungan Am Pekerja Greek, berarak secara aman kepada Parlimen dan kemudian bersurai. 1 pasukan Kesatuan Eropah (EU) dan IMF pemeriksa memulakan semula rundingan lebih dengan pegawai Greek apakah langkah Athens perlu mengambil untuk menjamin bayaran lain bailout dan mengelakkan lalai pada 1 pembayaran balik bon yang disebabkan US $ 18.6 billion 20 Mac.

Untuk mengurangkan hutang, Greece juga cuba untuk merundingkan isu perjanjian bon yang panjang-pembayaran balik dengan pelabur swasta, tetapi rundingan terhenti sepanjang perselisihan pendapat tentang kadar faedah. Pelabur, bagaimanapun, mengulangi komitmen mereka kepada perjanjian pada bursa hutang sukarela, dan mengesahkan bahawa mereka akan kembali ke Athens pada hari Rabu untuk meneruskan perbincangan. Sementara itu, Tabung Kewangan Antarabangsa (IMF) menganggarkan bahawa negara-negara di seluruh DUNIA akan memerlukan kira-kira US $ 1 trilion dalam pinjaman pada tahun-tahun akan datang. IMF berkata, ia bertujuan untuk mengumpul sehingga $ 500 bilion bagi pinjaman baru, termasuk $200 billion yang telah dijanjikan oleh negara-negara Eropah.

Yanis Varoufakis, seorang profesor ekonomi di Universiti Athens, memberitahu RT bahawa Greece mengadakan perbincangan dengan pelabur swasta sebagai sebahagian daripada perjanjian dengan Kesatuan Eropah (EU) dan IMF. "Idea ini adalah untuk menulis sebahagian daripada hutang melalui potongan PSI ini (pelabur sektor swasta) untuk membolehkan Jerman dan EU secara amnya untuk membawa diri mereka untuk membayar wang yang diperlukan untuk Greece untuk memenuhi obligasinya," kata Varoufakis.

"Tiada apa-apa jua yang berlaku di Greece membuat apa-apa perbezaan, kerana semua keputusan penting telah dicapai di Brussels, di Frankfurt, di Paris, di Berlin," katanya. "Sama ada Greece akan lalai akhirnya bergantung kepada sektor rasmi - Kesatuan Eropah (EU) dan IMF" Varoufakis berkata apa-apa wang Greece menerima "hanya akan digunakan untuk membayar balik bank." Jadi, daripada rak hutang Yunani baru, katanya, ia akan masuk akal banyak lagi untuk membiarkan lalai Greece di zon Euro. "Kemudian sektor rasmi secara langsung dapat permodalan semula bank-bank, yang akan masuk akal banyak lagi," jelas beliau. "Tetapi rasa tidak adalah kad lukisan hari ini - untuk 2 tahun yang lalu - di Kesatuan Eropah."

"Orang-orang Eropah telah gagal untuk meletakkan rumah mereka bagi," tambah Varoufakis. "Mereka telah gagal untuk datang dengan rancangan untuk menangani krisis bersekedudukan dengan sektor perbankan pada 1 tangan, dan ahli negeri-negeri di Zon Eropah. Kami telah menggunakan IMF. Ini adalah 1 tragedi." "Kami, Eropah, bertukar diri ke dalam laughingstock daripada DUNIA, "katanya.

Cc1WC'sChannel REVIEW Disaster 2012: Demonstrators shout slogans during a 24-hour strike against the austerity measures in Athens on January 17, 2012 (Penunjuk perasaan menjerit slogan semasa mogok 24 jam terhadap langkah-langkah penjimatan di Athens pada 17 Januari 2012)

Greece finds itself at yet another standstill, with a mass strike underway as IMF inspectors pay another debt-settling visit to Athens. But “resorting to the IMF” is not a productive method of settling the crisis, economist Yanis Varoufakis told RT.

Some 12,000 people took to the streets in central Athens in two rallies organized by the Greek Communist Party and the General Confederation of Greek Workers, marching peacefully to the parliament and then dispersing. A team of EU and IMF inspectors resumed negotiations with Greek officials over what steps Athens needs to take in order to secure another bailout payment - and avoid default on an $18.6 billion bond repayment due March 20.

To reduce its debt, Greece also attempted to negotiate an extended-repayment bond issue deal with private investors, but the talks stalled over a disagreement on interest rates.  Investors, however, reiterated their commitment to an agreement on a voluntary debt exchange, and confirmed that they would return to Athens on Wednesday to resume discussions. Meanwhile, the International Monetary Fund estimated that countries around the world will need about $1 trillion in loans in the coming years. The IMF said it aims to raise up to $500 billion for new loans, including $200 billion already promised by European countries.

Yanis Varoufakis, a professor of economics at Athens University, told RT that Greece is holding talks with private investors as a part of a deal with the EU and IMF. “The idea was to write down part of the debt through this PSI (private sector investors) haircut in order to allow Germany and the EU in general to bring themselves to paying the money necessary for Greece to meet its obligations,” Varoufakis said.

“Nothing that happens in Greece makes any difference, because all the important decisions are reached in Brussels, in Frankfurt, in Paris, in Berlin,” he added. “Whether Greece will default depends ultimately on the official sector - the European Union and the IMF.” Varoufakis says any money Greece receives “will only be used in order to repay banks.” So instead of racking up new Greek debt, he says, it would make much more sense to let Greece default within the Eurozone. “And then the official sector could directly recapitalize the banks, which would make much more sense,” he explained. “But sense is not the drawing card these days – for the last two years - in the European Union.”

“The Europeans have failed to put their house in order,” Varoufakis added. “They have failed to come up with a plan to deal with the cohabiting crisis with the banking sector on the one hand, and the member states of the Eurozone. We have resorted to the IMF. This is a tragedy.” “We, Europeans, turned ourselves into the laughingstock of the WORLD,” he concluded.