{"id":5313,"date":"2015-02-05T20:04:02","date_gmt":"2015-02-06T01:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=5313"},"modified":"2015-02-05T20:04:02","modified_gmt":"2015-02-06T01:04:02","slug":"greek-and-german-finance-ministers-clash-at-debt-relief-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=5313","title":{"rendered":"Greek and German finance ministers clash at debt relief talks"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"content__header tonal__header u-cf\">\n<div class=\"gs-container\">\n<div class=\"content__main-column\">\n<h3 class=\"content__headline js-score\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2015\/feb\/05\/greek-german-finance-ministers-clash-debt-relief-talks\" target=\"_blank\">Greek and German finance ministers clash at debt relief talks<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tonal__standfirst u-cf\">\n<div class=\"gs-container\">\n<div class=\"content__main-column\">\n<div class=\"content__standfirst\" data-link-name=\"standfirst\" data-component=\"standfirst\"><strong>No agreement to disagree on Athens\u2019 debts as Varoufakis brings up spectre of Greek nazism and Sch\u00e4uble offers 500 German tax collectors<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Greece\u2019s radical Syriza government remained locked in a bitter standoff with its German paymasters, as finance minister Yanis Varoufakis issued a stark warning of the rise of nazism in his country if the eurozone fails to heed the democratic voice of Greek voters.<\/p>\n<p>As Varoufakis completed the last leg of a whistle-stop round-Europe tour to seek support for Syriza\u2019s plans to halt austerity and renegotiate the country\u2019s debts, he told a tetchy press conference on Thursday in Berlin that\u00a0<a class=\" u-underline\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/greece\" data-link-name=\"auto-linked-tag\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\">Greece<\/a>\u00a0had a proud record in fighting Nazis, but ignoring the clear message from Greek electors could feed far-right forces.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo one understands better than the people of this land how a severely depressed economy, combined with a ritual national humiliation and unending hopelessness, can hatch the serpent\u2019s egg within its society. When I return home tonight, I will find a country where the third-largest party is not a neo-nazi party, but a nazi party,\u201d he said, referring to the far-right Golden Dawn. \u201cWe need the people of\u00a0<a class=\" u-underline\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/germany\" data-link-name=\"auto-linked-tag\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\">Germany<\/a>\u00a0on our side.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greek and German finance ministers clash at debt relief talks No agreement to disagree on Athens\u2019 debts as Varoufakis brings up spectre of Greek nazism and Sch\u00e4uble offers 500 German tax collectors Greece\u2019s radical Syriza government remained locked in a bitter standoff with its German paymasters, as finance minister Yanis Varoufakis issued a stark warning [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[195,200,284,285,359,1167,2236,3138],"class_list":["post-5313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","tag-debt","tag-default","tag-european-union","tag-eurozone","tag-germany","tag-greece","tag-syriza","tag-varoufakis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5313"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5314,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5313\/revisions\/5314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}