just for the sake of the conversation can we stop treating loans as if they're charity? that would make it alot more productive
EU gave no charity to Greece, it gave it loans though, just like a bank would, with interest, there are no friendships in international relations and idealists like Syriza expecting solidarity were leaving in a fairy tale, they learned the hard way that the world is Machiavelian, can we at least not pretend that some side has the moral high ground on this?
as for austerity it's madness, it's not science,it's dogma, just do some research of what happened everywhere the IMF and it's programs showed their ugly faces, google it
and if anyone somehow believes that Greece implemented no austerity he must be an idiot, taxes are insane and everywhere, pensions and wages plummmeted, state property sold to the highest bidder often against public interest
now Greece should definately not join the Eurozone, but spare me the crap about how EU was unaware of the greek debt, everyone knew what was going on and for the record there are way bigger problem's than the Greek debt , it's not about money it' about the rules, the Greek debt is tiny compared to that the total EU debt
soon it will be France's turn for some 'austerity' and 'fiscal morality', lots of fun when EU will start tearing itself apart from self imposed rules that are choking it, in their madness the British might have actually done their country a great service by leaving...