Ioannis requests to forward this message: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Ioannis Margaris <[email protected]> Date: Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 7:12 AM Subject: What happened in the Eurogroup 16 February - To: The following paragraphs give the basic story - which might change Europe's future in the coming weeks. Please forward this text to anyone who can contribute at spreading the word in the public domain. I have been member of the Greek delegation these days in Brussels, you can trust these words. In case you forward this, please erase previous e-mail addresses for privacy reasons. As you may have heard things did not go well. There was a compromise deal brokered by Juncker and agreed to by Draghi and Lagarde and Moscovici. But it was sunk by Djisselbloem, presumably on German pressure. In the eurogroup meeting and the subsequent press conference, there was little help from either Lagarde or Moscovici They say => complete the existing programme with some flexibility in implementation on our part but they never tell us what this flexibility will entail. On the contrary, they say sign first and then we will discuss with you areas of flexibility We say => give us a bridging programme and we have spelt out our commitments not only during the bridging period but also for the essential elements of the new compact with our partners long term We have done our best to reach a reasonable compromise. What we have faced is naked power and blackmail. Please pass on this mail to all who might help influence public opinion in the days to come My warm regards, I.M. -- Check out the Commons Transition Plan here at: http://en.wiki.floksociety.org/w/Research_Plan P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/