Dr Schäuble is damaging the interests of the European Union

Letter of academics to EU Foreign Ministers

To:       The Foreign Ministers of the European Union.

Cc:       President of the United States, Mr. Obama

            Members of the European Parliament

            Members of the Greek Parliament       

            Global Media

                                                                                                                        18 February 2015

Dear Sirs

Re: Dr Schäuble is damaging the interests of the European Union

We follow with great interest the developments, as they unfold, in the negotiations of the newly elected Greek Government, in the last Eurogroup meetings with its European partners. The Greek government currently has the support of the majority of the Greek population and is acting having in mind the best interest and the welfare of the Greek people. It is aiming to halt the humanitarian catastrophe that the country has devolved into with the failed austerity policies of the past years. 

With this letter we wish to state that the one sided view about the Greek economic crisis and the total lack of flexibility by Germany’s Federal Finance Minister, Wolfgang Schäuble, make the negotiations not just difficult but practically impossible. Dr Schäuble should bear most of the responsibility if the negotiations fail and as a result Greece is forced to exit from the Eurozone. Under current conditions, this will not only be catastrophic for Greece, it will also damage the interests of the European people, the European banks and ultimately will jeopardise the European Union and its ideals. Had someone like him been present on the side of the allies in the negotiations of Germany after WWII, the so-called German economic miracle would have never occurred.

We fully support the negotiations of the Greek Government carried out by Dr. Yianis Varoufakis.

Sincerely

1.       Argyropoulos, Yiannis, Ph.D., Principal Member of Technical Staff, AT&T Labs, USA.

2.       Aroniadou-Anderjaska, Vassiliki, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Maryland, USA.

3.       Billis, Euripides, Ex-Assistant Professor National University of Athens (NTUA), GREECE. 

4.       Evangeliou, Christos C., Professor of Philosophy, Towson University, Maryland, USA.

5.       Gatzoulis, Nina, Professor, University of New Hampshire, USA.

6.       Kakouli-Duarte, Thomais, PhD., Lecturer, Institute of Technology Carlow, Past President Hellenic Community of Ireland, Trustee Greek Orthodox Church of the Annunciation in Dublin, Patron and Director at Phoenix Project Ireland, IRELAND.

7.       Negreponti-Delivanis, Maria, Former Rector and Professor in the University of Macedonia, President of Delivanis’ Foundation, GREECE.

8.       Pavlos, Georgios, Associate Professor, Democritus Technological University of Thrace, GREECE. 

9.       Rigos, Capt. Evangelos Master Mariner, BBA Pace University of New York, USA.

10.    Stampoliadis, Elias, Professor, Technological University of Crete, GREECE.