‘Euro could be dead in a month’

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Published time: November 05, 2011 18:50
Edited time: November 05, 2011 22:50

Greek Communists chant slogans at the Athens' Syntagma square in front of the Greek Parliament during a rally in Athens on November 4, 2011 (AFP Photo / STR)

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Greek PM George Papandreou is aiming to form a coalition government and push through an international bailout package. However Patrick Young, executive director of investment advisory firm 'DV Advisors' views the situation as a political disaster.

“What we have here is a political disaster area. I realize we are talking about economics, but the problem is we have been hearing the Greek politicians have decided to have an overall political argument, and that is basically holding the rest of the eurozone to ransom,” he stated. “Mrs Merkel can’t afford to spend any more money or she will not get re-elected. Mr Sarkozy needs to get results and he has just had a complete disaster at the G20 meeting, where he promised so much and failed to deliver anything. Therefore Greece is now hanging on the end of a thread dangling over a cliff. It is going to go bankrupt and it is probably going to take the eurozone with it, and that really is a tragedy,” he predicted.

Young added the focus should be on ejecting Greece from the single currency rather than saving it.

“The umbilical cord should be cut with Greece immediately. Ultimately Greece itself is incapable of staying within the kind of austerity regime that the eurozone wants to force it into,”

Young explained. He added that for the rest of the eurozone it would be a lot better to throw out Italy, because this is a big festering sore and is completely unable to manage to get its house in order.

“Italy looks to me as if it is going to end up going straight into the hands of the IMF. The IMF said they were willing to lend money, but the terrible problem we have here is called politicians,”

Young pointed out.

“We don’t have any leaders, we only have politicians who are trying to save their own jobs in the era of high unemployment and therefore we are not getting the sort of leadership that will push the world forward. Isn’t it ironic that the small countries of Europe like Estonia have taken their medicine? They have been the people that actually injected austerity and changed their economies around,”

he emphasized.

The euro has never been so shaky. And if the eurozone does not get its act together, the euro could be dead by the end of November, maintained Young.

“There is no leadership, everybody is rushing to try and get themselves re-elected, particularly Sarkozy, but Obama as well. This is going to implode and it is going to have terrible impact on all of Europe,”

he concluded.

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Roger Coze 11.11.2011 05:54

@ economicsThat does not sound bad at all. It sounds like something that would kick a country hard enough for them to get moving again. A crisis is necessary and some ,if not all, countries will get out of the crisis just as strong or stronger. Maybe it will show, that democracy is not the right government for everyone diversity is needed in Europe at least we are not all the same.

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Christian (unregistered) 09.11.2011 15:23

I have one question: what is a "European"? I’m only asking because allot of foreigners appear to talk about Europeans what they should do and since i don’t relate to that designation if anything it has almost a derogatory meaning since the EU starting trying to take over albeit some reminiscence of its old . Is it people who live on the continent, in which case its composed of several different countries (including a part of Russia) and it makes no more sense than saying Asians where the bulk of Russia’s landmass lies but Im not sure if Russians feel a common identity with the other countries there. Is it EU, well my country is a member we don’t have the euro (thankfully) but they don’t encompass the entire continent which makes the claim for the name dubious and more over i don’t know anyone who feels that his or her identity is "European". There are of course our politicians who speak in such terms when they are abroad (never at home) and eurocrats but they have very little in common with regular people sort of like a new nobility who knows better much like the aristocracy of old.

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Nay Lin Maung 06.11.2011 23:00

Euro will survive.

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