Greek ‘political blackmail’ of EU won’t work anymore, says top Merkel party member — RT News.
With the possibility of a leftist anti-austerity party dominating Greek elections later this month, a high-ranking member of German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s party has said Greece could no longer “blackmail” the EU.
Michael Fuchs, an MP for Merkel’s Christian Democrats, issued a warning to Greek voters – increasingly attracted by the radical leftist party Syriza that has pledged to restructure economic reform and end austerity measures – when he said the “troika” [the International Monetary Fund, EU and European Central Bank] may be forced to forego future rescue loans.
“If Alexis Tsipras of the Greek left party Syriza thinks he can cut back the reform efforts and austerity measures, then the troika will have to cut back the credits for Greece,” Fuchs said in an interview with Rheinische Post newspaper published Wednesday.
Fuchs said the 28-member EU and its core eurozone countries would no longer be pressured into saving the Greek economy from either collapse or exiting the EU altogether.
