Greek crisis dominates EU summit

BRUSSELS (EUX.TV) - European leaders confirmed Thursday they would step in to prevent a spread of the Greek debt crisis if the Greek government is able to enact a series of stringent austerity measures.

At the start of their two-day summit in Brussels, the EU leaders agreed that the situation was very serious.

Without further help from other countries, help, Greece could be bankrupt by July, with disastrous knock-on effects for European banks.

The EU leaders reiterated they were ready to offer Greece support only if parliament in Athens agreed to the latest consolidation package, which would legislate some 28 billion euros in tax hikes and spending cuts, as well as privatizations worth some 50 billion euros.

That's supposed to happen in the coming days. The Greek prime minister was encouraged.

But it remains to be seen if Greece will be able to deliver the required legislation. At the summit of the Eurpean People's Party, the Greek opposition christian-democrats did not commit to signing.

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[wojbert]

greeks has no toilets , they shiit to the buckets. and put papers most old issues of newspapers to the basket a side. do you konow how stink in greece???????????????? you can only visit this country when is winding from nort to south. and only outside , to get some fresh air.

[wojbert]

why , we have to help lazy, bums greeks if they do not work ?????????? this lazy nation fuckin goats and pissing to the wholes. no money for greeks. go to work , cut your salary , and work 20 hour a day . it they get the money they will never pay back. greeks are lazy and scandalusly lazy and crooks.

[itachiitachi1946]

@patka1982 10 YEARS AGO? YEAH RIGHT...thats what happend last month when albanians were fighting with slavs.AND NEVER TALK AGAIN ABOUT MACEDONIA CAUSE IM FORM MACEDONIA and IM A FUCKING HELLENS.so stop ur PROPAGANDA trying to steals greeces history.only an uneducated barbarian would speak like u spoke about macedonia.u think u r HELLENES WHILE UR NOT.then u say ur not hellenes and ur something else.u have NO fucking entiy and identity.ur slavs&albanians.

[patka1982]

@itachiitachi1946

ARE YOU FUCKING RETARDED? That shit was 10 years ago and you just tryied to use my argument against me and YOU FAILED. Get you facts right. Thx to the crysis this video is about the greek economy is worse than Macedonias. Im done arguing with a brainless moron who can even write proper english.

[itachiitachi1946]

@patka1982 albanians r fighting with slavs in ur region.ur economy is a 4th word 1 u have propaganda and u cause troubles against hellas albania and bulgaria and u try so hard to steal others history and culutre cause u dont have idenity cause ur slav coming from yugoslavia a state which doesnt exist after the fail of soviet union. and u wanna enter in eu.and now u have the nerve scapegoating hellas online about economic crisis under the mask of inocence

[patka1982]

@itachiitachi1946

I dont see what that has to do with you fucking up whole europe. Our name problem is our issue not the EU one. Thank to you the Euro will fail and in the worst case scenario Europe will become a worthless continent without a proper economy.The problem with the albaninas has been solved. We and they live in peace, only racis morons like you would kill poeple for what WAS and not what IS. And lastly we have nothing with bulgarians. arguing on the inet is pointless so i will stop

[itachiitachi1946]

@financialtools1 no need to do what u mentioed.heres the solution.hellas out of eu asap! imf out of hellas asap.then well lend money from russia&china &letting china invest in our soil.china said is willing to give us & invest in hellas 100 billions&russia 25 billions but corrupted hellenic gov who r ruled by eu&usa acting like pupets said no&they signed in imf an agreement hellas NOT to lend from rusia and china cause that would let helas free mesing plans of eu and usa to make a protectorat

[itachiitachi1946]

@Naseer958 i couldnt agree more with u my friend.those anglosaxons americans and europeans r the source of the worlds problems.

[itachiitachi1946]

KICK MY COUNTRY OUT OF EU so we can lend money from china&russia .russia and china r iwilling to help us for free.russia gives us 25 billions and theyll take back 25 billions.china is giving 100 billions in order to buy some mines and airports and invest on them.hellenic debt is solved and development will happen through russia&china.but usa and eu have interests in hellas and thats why is this total mess now.(an agreement in imf is NOT to lend money form russia and china).our gov is corupted

[itachiitachi1946]

@patka1982 first create a nation instead of trying to steal others history u vardaskian.then realise how imprtasnt is helas to the world.and then grow someballs instead of hidingbehind ur lame propaganda accusing hellenes.ur a mere slav with no country saying that macedonia which isa hellenic tribe,region,city state and part of hellas ,is the name of ur country.solve the problem with albanians first who r rdy to kill u all,stop causing problems to bulgaria and then wry about others problems