Nein!
Ahead of a vote by German members of parliament on the extension of a bailout for Greece – German red top Bild says NO.
There you go now.
Nevertheless…Germany votes to extend Greek bailout (RTÉ)
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Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and finance minister Yanis Varoufakis
Germany and its allies are ready to let Greece leave the euro unless Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras accepts the conditions required to extend his country’s financial support, according to Malta’s finance minister, Edward Scicluna.
Greece’s creditors are cranking up the pressure on Tsipras as he seeks a deal to prevent his country defaulting on its obligations as early as next month. By bowing to German demands, the premier risks a domestic backlash from voters and party members whom he’s promised an end to austerity.
German-Led Bloc Willing to Let Greece Leave Euro: Malta (Bloomberg)
Alternatively…
As Greece heads toward 11th-hour funding talks with its euro-area membership on the line, bondholders are surprisingly sanguine about its failure so far to secure a deal.
Forget the strategists at Commerzbank AG who say there’s a 50 percent chance it’ll leave the currency bloc, and those at Barclays Plc who put the exit risk higher even than in the 2012 debt crisis. The Bloomberg Greece Sovereign Bond Index shows those with money at stake aren’t seeing a significant increase in the chances of a euro-zone departure….
Investors Still Don’t Think Greece Will Exit the Euro Bloomberg)
Reuters
Germany has rejected Greece’s application to extend its loan agreement and renegotiate the terms of its bailout, raising the very real threat of Athens running out of money in the coming weeks.
The Berlin government said on Thursday that Greece’s application for a six-month extension of its loan and a renegotiation of some its terms was “no substantial solution.”
Germany rejects Greece’s application to extend its loan agreement (CNBC)
Historic Depths of Greece’s Economic Misery, Charted (Salon)
Graphs via Salon
Winston Churchill, Franklin Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin at Yalta, Crimea February 1945
The Yalta Conference.
Seventy years ago this week.
Ironically, one of the main aims of the Yalta conference got turned on its head and has shown the extraordinary turns of history. This was the aim of all the participants to punish Germany and split it into four military zones and possibly into two or three separate ‘agricultural’ Germanies, to prevent it ever coming back as one big power again, to dominate and disrupt the world.
However, with a Cold War growing, the West realised that it needed a strong Germany, and the Soviets followed suit by building up Eastern Germany. Seventy years later, and with the two Germanies united, the country is at the absolute centre of Europe, running the EU and acting as economic powerhouse for the entire continent.
…many Poles never forgave the way that they were sold into Communism by the British, having seen Britain enter the war to save them from Hitler. It is interesting that Churchill, who made much of Chamberlain’s appeasement and trust in Hitler, should himself suffer the same with the Soviet leader.
The port of Yalta and the great global carve-up (Eamon Delaney, Independent.ie)
http://vimeo.com/111277226
A rather beautiful timelapse by Andrew Walker compiled from shots of a tour of Germany, Austria and the Czech Republic in September.
Shot (if you relish such detail) with Canon 5D Mark III, Canon and Ziess lenses, a Dynamic Perception Stage R Pan/Tilt head being controlled by a eMotimo controller in a 3D printed box.
‘süp?
Yokes Yokes Yokes
Thanks DublinGunner37
Meanwhile…
https://vine.co/v/OqiBPT3gn71
Irish supporters in the Veltins-Arena tonight (top) and above John O’Shea’s injury time equaliser.
“What a result for Ireland. Extraordinary. Not exactly deserved on the balance of play, but that’s the hideous, wondrous beauty of this game. The Germans sulk off the pitch grumbling – they should have won this match by a distance, but for all their possession they created only one clear chance inside the penalty area (Götze in the 80th minute, well saved by Forde), and actually the Irish created two….”
Germany 1- Ireland 1 (Guardian LiveBlog)
Pic: You Boys In Green
Meanwhile…
Jaysus.
Shane Caffrey tweetz:
“German merchandise outside the stadium [Gelsenkirchen, Germany] tonight!”
Gott im fuppin Himmel!
Louis Le Fronde writes:
“This is the IRISH army in the 1930s, wearing German-style helmets. Subsequent British anti-Irish propaganda focusing on the helmets was a bit unfair as they were in fact supplied by the firm of Vickers & Co in London who had been given custody of a German helmet press captured by the British.
“The Germans still retained a number of other helmet presses, but were banned from manufacturing helmets under the terms of the Versailles Treaty. When the Irish army changed its headgear, the Vickers’ helmets were buried in landfill sites. As far as I know, Irish army helmets are now manufactured in Israel.”
FIGHT!
Meanwhile…
The badge on those helmets.
‘FF’ anyone?
Oh God!
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Germany’s largest media company [Weltbild], sells books, DVDs, music and more — and also happens to belong 100% to the Catholic Church. Few people knew about this connection until this month when Buchreport, a German industry newsletter, reported that the Catholic company also sells porn.
Let he who is without sin cast the first etc..
World Crunch: Catholic Church Makes A Fortune In The German Porn Business
H/T: Carol Hunt
World Music
at
Oooh.
Joe Donnelly writes:
“I asked listeners to TXFM Drive to decide which country would come out on top in a battle of the bands and singers. Of all the remaining World Cup matches, no other two countries can offer up the same intriguing contest. While most of the music we listen to comes from Britain, the U.S., and of course our own country, there’s no denying that France and Germany have provided some quality artists over the years….”
Top of die Pops?
You FIGHT decide.