The one truly endearing thing about the Troika (as viewed through the prison, sorry, prism of the EU) is its unequalled capacity for making a sow’s ear out of a silk purse, fashioning a cockup from the straightforward, or sowing confusion upon the soil of clarity. The example this week (and if you didn’t catch it don’t worry, there’ll be at least two more along next week) is the alleged EC budget gap, and the alleged Greek budget gap….the latter being the real reason, I’m told, why the Troika pulled out of Athens last week – well, that and the fact they couldn’t find anything to eat. Yesterday, Gerry Rice of the IMF was on-message when saying there were no financing problems with Greece “as long as a review of its loan programme is concluded by the end of July. The priority remains for the Greek authorities to deliver on the programme quickly.” Innane human tulip Jeroen Dijsselbloem then a few hours later called upon all Greek political parties to stay together to fulfil the country’s promises so that the Troika review could be finalised by early in July.
Posted on: Sat, 22 Jun 2013 06:48:55 +0000
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