Dienstag, 25. Oktober 2011

Was passiert eigentlich mit den Hilfsgeldern für Griechenland?

Die Antwort wird den europäischen Steuerzahlern nicht gefallen:

More than half of the money lent to Greece so far by the International Monetary Fund and European nations has gone to repay bondholders, a transfer of billions of dollars from taxpayers around the world to European banks and pension funds that invested in the troubled Mediterranean nation. [...]

The argument at the time, pressed most forcefully by officials from the European Central Bank, was that imposing losses on private investors would wreck the euro region’s credibility and possibly prompt international bond markets to turn on other countries, such as Spain and Italy.

Nearly 18 months later, with billions of dollars in public money already paid out to bondholders, Greece’s situation has only worsened, and Spain and Italy have come under market scrutiny anyway.