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Your book Barack Obama with the memoirs of his eight-year presidency titled “Land of Promises” will be released in Greece on November 17.
In this, the former US president could not miss Greece, since he and his government have played an important role in solving the problem. Debt crisis that our country faced in the period 20090-2010.
The News makes a pre-publication on this book where the former president of the United States sheds light on the dramatic moments of 2010 and reveals that Merkel and Seibel seemed determined to put a condition to provide aid to Greece as a reward similar to the petty crime while their government suffocating pressure for the ECB and the IMF to formulate a fairly robust and manageable rescue package for the then Greek government.
“And then Greece collapsed …”. With this phrase, Barack Obama opens chapter 22 dedicated to the Greek question, the 44th president of the United States presents the dramatic background and the months of consultations of the White House with the Europeans to find a solution that would make the Greek debt manageable. Bearing in mind that it was the US intervention that defused the Greek bomb, since the former US president strongly maintains that, unlike Berlin and Brussels, from the beginning he saw the Greek debt crisis as a geostrategic problem and not just as economical.
As the former president of the United States points out to many members of the eurozone, the Greeks themselves were to blame for their problems, with the incompetence of their governments.
He also reveals his own discussions on the Greek issue, as does then-US Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, then-French President Nicolas Sarkozy, and then-German Finance Minister Wolfgang Soh.
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