Greece told to sell off islands and artworks!

demetrios
demetrios Posts: 97,814
edited March 2010 in A Moving Train
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/ma ... ds-auction

The call for a Big Fat Greek Auction came on the eve of crucial talks between Angela Merkel and the George Papandreou.

Josef Schlarmann told Bild newspaper that Greece should consider selling its uninhabited islands for debt redemption.

Two senior German MPs have demanded that Greece sell off some of its islands, historic buildings and art works as a condition of receiving a financial lifeline from the EU.

The call for a Big Fat Greek Auction – which would also include ancient artefacts and stakes in state-owned companies – to repay some of the country's debt mountain came on the eve of crucial talks between the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, and the Greek prime minister, George Papandreou, in Berlin tomorrow and takes the mudslinging between the two countries to a new level.

Frank Schaeffler, an economics specialist and member of Germany's Free Democrats, said Athens should sell stakes in companies and "assets, such as uninhabited islands". Marco Wanderwitz – a member of Merkel's conservative CDU party – went even further: "If the European Union, and therefore Germany, helps out Greece economically, it will need to give something in exchange … some islands, for example, might be a solution.''

The Bild tabloid newspaper put it rather more succinctly: "We give you cash, you give us Corfu … and the Acropolis too".

Dimitris Droutsas, Greece's deputy foreign minister, was not amused. "Suggestions like this are not appropriate at this time," he told German television.

According to a poll published today, 84% of Germans think the EU should refuse to help Athens.

The Greeks are increasingly resentful of Germany's hardline stance. Germany's Nazi past has been dragged up and German car dealers and supermarket chains have been hit by boycotts.

There are some 6,000 Greek islands, scattered across the Aegean and Ionian seas, ranging from Crete, the biggest at more than 3,000 square miles, to tiny rocky islets barely big enough for a single sunbed. Only around 220 are inhabited. Many are already up for sale.

The Private Islands Online website, which specialises in selling island paradises and rocky outcrops across the world, says a little bit of land surrounded by sea in the Cyclades or Dodecanese is the perfect trophy asset: "Greek islands are the ultimate status symbol, evoking images of sunglass-sporting shipping magnates sipping champagne on the deck of enormous yachts."

The price it insists, is really quite reasonable. The islands are "relatively affordable … costing as little as $2m – less than a ski chalet in Aspen or a walk-up on the Upper East Side".

Currently up for grabs is St Athanasios island, just 2.5 acres, in the Gulf of Corinth, with an asking price of €1.5m. Those who need more space might be interested in St Thomas, a 300 acre isle in the Diapori chain, a water taxi ride from Athens and on the market for €15m.

This week Papandreou set out his third round of austerity measures, including public sector pay cuts and tax increases. Greek unions announced a series of strikes in protest.

The Greek treasury successfully raised €5bn in a make-or-break bond issue, but more than €50bn of Greek debt is due this year – €20bn in the coming weeks – and the country needs to borrow more to meet repayments. If it cannot it will be in default and European banks with Greek investments would be forced into vast write-offs. The problem could then spread to other countries with huge deficits.


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What in god's name is going on over there? :shock: I just heard & watched this on Greek TV. This is will never happen. Greece will never sell out their islands & artwork's to anybody .. anymore. England still has Greek statues & art in their museums. One day, hopefully, they will be returned to Greece.
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  • pandora
    pandora Posts: 21,855
    God tough to strong arm an entire country
    craziness
  • puremagic
    puremagic Posts: 1,907
    Greece and Goldman Sach's a recipe for disaster. Greece has no one in the EU willing to bail them out there has to be reason. What does Greece have that the EU wants. Its not the islands or art, that's would only serve as personal gain for someone or some corporation. So what else does Greece have - SHIPPING -.

    Greece's maritime industry is what the EU wants on the table in order to bail out Greece. If the people and government give up control of Greece's shipping industry they'll be reduced to nothing more than EU beggers dependent upon the charity crumbs of Germany and EU elite.
    SIN EATERS--We take the moral excrement we find in this equation and we bury it down deep inside of us so that the rest of our case can stay pure. That is the job. We are morally indefensible and absolutely necessary.
  • Cosmo
    Cosmo Posts: 12,225
    So... how much you want for that there Cyclades? I got a hundred bucks.
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    Hail, Hail!!!
  • dimitrispearljam
    dimitrispearljam Posts: 139,725
    i have to answer with Greek way to this...
    we will sell them our 3
    "...Dimitri...He talks to me...'.."The Ghost of Greece..".
    "..That's One Happy Fuckin Ghost.."
    “..That came up on the Pillow Case...This is for the Greek, With Our Apologies.....”
  • dimitrispearljam
    dimitrispearljam Posts: 139,725
    6_t.jpg







    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molon_labe
    "...Dimitri...He talks to me...'.."The Ghost of Greece..".
    "..That's One Happy Fuckin Ghost.."
    “..That came up on the Pillow Case...This is for the Greek, With Our Apologies.....”
  • flywallyfly
    flywallyfly Posts: 1,453
    Maybe Greece can sell Cyprus to Turkey? ;)
  • flywallyfly
    flywallyfly Posts: 1,453
    dimitrispearljam wrote:
    6_t.jpg







    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molon_labe

    I like that ! Something similar here from Texas :

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Come_and_take_it
  • pandora
    pandora Posts: 21,855
    beggers
    dependent upon the elite.
    mmmmm is that not whats happening everywhere?
  • dimitrispearljam
    dimitrispearljam Posts: 139,725
    flywallyfly wrote:
    Maybe Greece can sell Cyprus to Turkey? ;)
    usally they dont ask...
    "...Dimitri...He talks to me...'.."The Ghost of Greece..".
    "..That's One Happy Fuckin Ghost.."
    “..That came up on the Pillow Case...This is for the Greek, With Our Apologies.....”
  • dimitrispearljam
    dimitrispearljam Posts: 139,725
    Greek Prime Minister just talk in press in Berlin,i watch it now live...he said..NEVER gonna sold our Islands and art ... in Mercel face...
    "...Dimitri...He talks to me...'.."The Ghost of Greece..".
    "..That's One Happy Fuckin Ghost.."
    “..That came up on the Pillow Case...This is for the Greek, With Our Apologies.....”
  • Cosmo
    Cosmo Posts: 12,225
    Think about this...
    You sell the Parthanon to China and China buys it.
    So what? It's not like China can drive it off the lot, right? It stays there, but now... China has to pay for the upkeep. We sold Pebble Beach and Rockerfeller Center to the Japanese... but, they're still here.
    ...
    I say... sell off those Greek Islands... let some other country pay for them... and still enjoy them.
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    Hail, Hail!!!
  • dimitrispearljam
    dimitrispearljam Posts: 139,725
    Cosmo wrote:
    Think about this...
    You sell the Parthanon to China and China buys it.
    So what? It's not like China can drive it off the lot, right? It stays there, but now... China has to pay for the upkeep. We sold Pebble Beach and Rockerfeller Center to the Japanese... but, they're still here.
    ...
    I say... sell off those Greek Islands... let some other country pay for them... and still enjoy them.
    dont have too..next tourist will come to Greece will pay 100$ a cup of coffee,the same time Greeks pay 5$
    Mercel just said that Germans will still come for tourism in Greece.. :lol: we are ok
    btw we already sold the ports in China...
    "...Dimitri...He talks to me...'.."The Ghost of Greece..".
    "..That's One Happy Fuckin Ghost.."
    “..That came up on the Pillow Case...This is for the Greek, With Our Apologies.....”
  • redrock
    redrock Posts: 18,341
    Maybe Greece could have reclaimed all their art treasures that have been pilfered and scattered around the world and sold them back! That could bring plenty of money in. Maybe then the price of Ouzo won't go up for tourists. :mrgreen:

    I can't phantom how a country leader could even suggest anything like she did!
  • dimitrispearljam
    dimitrispearljam Posts: 139,725
    redrock wrote:
    Maybe Greece could have reclaimed all their art treasures that have been pilfered and scattered around the world and sold them back! That could bring plenty of money in. Maybe then the price of Ouzo won't go up for tourists. :mrgreen:

    I can't phantom how a country leader could even suggest anything like she did!
    exactly!!after that start a war of boycote German product now...all talks about that...
    or we can sell the ones uk has in their museam.. :evil:
    and no worry about ouzo... :mrgreen:
    "...Dimitri...He talks to me...'.."The Ghost of Greece..".
    "..That's One Happy Fuckin Ghost.."
    “..That came up on the Pillow Case...This is for the Greek, With Our Apologies.....”
  • demetrios
    demetrios Posts: 97,814
    flywallyfly wrote:
    Maybe Greece can sell Cyprus to Turkey? ;)

    Only if they give Greece back Constantinople. Someday, in the year's ahead of our time which it's been written in the bible & scrolls that the Greek's will get back Constantinople. It will reign in blood in the Mediterranean sea. We Greeks will get it back. Someday!
  • dimitrispearljam
    dimitrispearljam Posts: 139,725
    demetrios wrote:
    flywallyfly wrote:
    Maybe Greece can sell Cyprus to Turkey? ;)

    Only if they give Greece back Constantinople. Someday, in the year's ahead of our time which it's been written in the bible & scrolls that the Greek's will get back Constantinople. It will reign in blood in the Mediterranean sea. We Greeks will get it back. Someday!
    "...Dimitri...He talks to me...'.."The Ghost of Greece..".
    "..That's One Happy Fuckin Ghost.."
    “..That came up on the Pillow Case...This is for the Greek, With Our Apologies.....”
  • dimitrispearljam
    dimitrispearljam Posts: 139,725
    Greece just accept German offer..we sell them the 2 island.its on the news...we show them in the map.Corfu and Zakinthos
    so from now ,and sorry for that Malta and Sicily belongs to Germans :lol::lol::lol::lol::lol:
    Greeks..always find the way ;)
    "...Dimitri...He talks to me...'.."The Ghost of Greece..".
    "..That's One Happy Fuckin Ghost.."
    “..That came up on the Pillow Case...This is for the Greek, With Our Apologies.....”
  • demetrios
    demetrios Posts: 97,814
    dimitrispearljam wrote:
    Greece just accept German offer..we sell them the 2 island.its on the news...we show them in the map.Corfu and Zakinthos
    so from now ,and sorry for that Malta and Sicily belongs to Germans :lol::lol::lol::lol::lol:
    Greeks..always find the way ;)

    Where did you hear this? It's official? Greece sold Corfu & Zakinthos to Germany? I'm watching the Olyssey & ANT1 Greek Channels & they haven't said nothing yet on that?
  • dimitrispearljam
    dimitrispearljam Posts: 139,725
    demetrios wrote:
    dimitrispearljam wrote:
    Greece just accept German offer..we sell them the 2 island.its on the news...we show them in the map.Corfu and Zakinthos
    so from now ,and sorry for that Malta and Sicily belongs to Germans :lol::lol::lol::lol::lol:
    Greeks..always find the way ;)

    Where did you hear this? It's official? Greece sold Corfu & Zakinthos to Germany? I'm watching the Olyssey & ANT1 Greek Channels & they haven't said nothing yet on that?
    ita joke that is in all Greece man..we sell them Corfu & Zakinthos.but .in the map we show them Malta and Sicily
    Greeks!!!!always survivors.... ;)
    "...Dimitri...He talks to me...'.."The Ghost of Greece..".
    "..That's One Happy Fuckin Ghost.."
    “..That came up on the Pillow Case...This is for the Greek, With Our Apologies.....”
  • demetrios
    demetrios Posts: 97,814
    dimitrispearljam wrote:
    demetrios wrote:
    dimitrispearljam wrote:
    Greece just accept German offer..we sell them the 2 island.its on the news...we show them in the map.Corfu and Zakinthos
    so from now ,and sorry for that Malta and Sicily belongs to Germans :lol::lol::lol::lol::lol:
    Greeks..always find the way ;)

    Where did you hear this? It's official? Greece sold Corfu & Zakinthos to Germany? I'm watching the Olyssey & ANT1 Greek Channels & they haven't said nothing yet on that?
    ita joke that is in all Greece man..we sell them Corfu & Zakinthos.but .in the map we show them Malta and Sicily
    Greeks!!!!always survivors.... ;)

    I was gonna say man. It would of been hell & blood if that happened.

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