2015-02-13

The Finns Run on Greece

Soini tags Greek bailout for election platform
Finns Party chair Timo Soini said that the election result in Greece shows that the European Union’s aid policy has been flawed.

“The election result is a knockout blow to this flawed aid policy. Mistakes have been made for five years and this is the result,” Soini told Yle’s Aamu-tv breakfast programme Monday.

Soini said that he will use the Greek bailout saga as the main platform theme for Finland’s general election due in April. He added that Greece is now more indebted than it was before the eurozone crisis began.

“When Finland began this kind of aid policy at the hands of the old parties, our share of the burden was zero euros, now it’s seven billion euros,” Soini remarked.
The evolving expectation seems to be the Greeks will be pushed to the wall and then get a deal. It appears there will be domestic political costs for many northern European, pro-euro political parties.

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