Senior EU officials and European governments have been making mutually conflicting statements about the rendering of financial help to Greece, and the Brussels meeting of EU Finance Ministers has only made the waters murkier.
While the relevant EU officials continue to argue about how best to pull Greece out of its financial mess, anti-austerity measures demonstrators have clashed with the police in Athens, the Greek capital, and the signs are that the mass protests against the Government steps will continue to grow. The demonstrators are unhappy with everything, including an increase in taxes and reduction of the wages of public employees; the protesters are also angry with the relationship between Greece and the EU. European politicians are in a fix and are weighing the fallout from the Greek factor on the continent's stability. The issue goes beyond the money required by Greece to reduce its huge budget deficit. The political problem for Europe, regarded until quite recently as the bulwark of stability, prosperity and stable development, is that many people are now having a different opinion of what had been accepted as the largest merger in the history of the world. Most likely, regional organizations like SCO, ASEAN and others will use the mistakes of the EU to create smaller and less cumbersome Unions that could prove easier to manage.
Some experts believe that in theory, Greece could leave the Euro zone, which will allow the EU to have a stronger economy that could ultimately enable Greece to restart on a stronger economic footing EU enlargement is accompanied by extra economic responsibility for the new members. Oddly, there are no agreed and written procedures for the opting out of members from either the Euro zone or the EU, meaning that politics was the major factor for the creation of the EU, and the economy was a secondary consideration. It's highly likely that the EU structure will shortly undergo a substantial retouching, but the EU is not about to leave Greece in the lurch, believes Anatoly Aksakov, a State Duma deputy:
"No EU member, including Germany, France and Britain, the biggest of them all, would want to see one of their members forced out from the Euro zone since it will leave a serious dent not only on the Euro, but also on the reputation of the organization", said Aksakov.
The Chairman of the EU group, the Prime Minister of Luxemburg, Jean-Claude Younker says that a decision on Greece will be taken at the upcoming EU summit, stressing however that Athens has not asked the EU or any other organization for financial assistance and adding that financial help will be rendered to Greece only in dire situation.
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