with Martin Schultz, just before being figuratively stabbed in the back by António Costa
António Costa said two days earlier that
"Portugal is not like Greece because of the Socialist Party,"
Vice-Pressident Paulo Portas asked ironically:
"Pardon me. How come?
"Pardon me. How come?
Who brought the troika to Portugal and negotiated with them
(the troika) and put Portugal in the hands of a syndicate of creditors?"
"These kind of statements, only reveals that the Socialist Party,
has never been able to make a critical review of what they did in 2011"
or even have "an amendment of speech or rectification"
on their performance in the last two governments,
(which brought Portugal to a desperate situation,
where the socialists had to beg the EU
for an international bailout programme of 78 billions euros)
therefore the socialists have "this ambiguity about Greece."
Double talk, double meaning, nothing specific or concrete.
Only double talk, populism and promising the world and more
to everyone. Illusions and impossibilities,
easy money for everyone and soon Portugal will be back
where Greece is right now!
The German Minister of Economics, Sigmar Gabriel,
indicates that Greece is at risk of insolvency.
The Reuters agency reports that to stay in the euro zone,
Greece will have to present proposals that go further
than those submitted previously.
To the minister, "to forgive Greece's debt" would mean
having to forgive Portugal, Spain and Ireland,
which would not be possible to the European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF).
"The Greek referendum is a rejection of the monetary union rules,"
said Sigmar Gabriel.
"Varoufakis set the forest on fire
and now he's standing on the side watching it burns"
and now he's standing on the side watching it burns"
The former parliamentary leader of the PSD, Paulo Rangel,
used a pyromanic metaphor to talk about Varoufakis.
For Rangel, Varoufakis displayed "irresponsible behaviour"
which the Portuguese EMP consider:
"being such a reputed economist,
did not mean that he was a technically equipped Finance Minister,"
he said, adding that in Brussels there were complaints
about the lack of preparation of the technical teams led by Varoufakis.
Nuno Melo, the CDS MEP,
believes that a Greek debt restructuring
is "totally absurd nonsense", according to the Observer newspaper.
Nuno Melo indicates that Greece would already have undergone
a restructuring of their debt in November 2012,
if the country had fulfilled a reform plan.
Pointing out the contradictions of António Costa in the case of Greece,
Paulo Portas argued that,
if the socialist leader "were the prime minister,
Syriza would barely have won,
Costa would have gone on an ideological solidarity tour
and on the way brought Portugal nearer to the Greek problem,
by not separating the Portuguese case
from the instability of the Greek situation,
and thereby would dismiss the efforts of the Portuguese people
and the capacity of the Portuguese to recover their income. "
Paulo Portas listed the socialist European leaders
and recommending that António Costa,
the Secretary General of the Socialist Party,
who is constantly complaining about the European policies,
should in the first place, complain to his fellow socialist leaders:
Martin Schultz, the President of the European Parliament;
Sigmar Gabriel, Vice-Chancelor of Germany;
Vítor Costancio, Vice-president of the European Central Bank;
Matteo Renzi, the PM of Italy;
François Hollande, the President of France.
The problem is that ALL of these socialists
have given very harsh comments on the instability
created by the "NO " vote in Greece, and technically
plunged the country into financial "Default".
"At stake is a common project,
which must have common rules.
If the Portuguese Socialist Party wants
a different European policy towards Greece,
they should, first of all,
complain about their socialist counterparts
that all across Europe have said very different things
from what the Socialist Party have said in Portugal, "he said.
Portas insisted a lot on the question relatively to
what "Portugal would actually benefit from associating its case
and its efforts to a situation like that of Greece,
with the uncertainty and volatility that it generates?"
"We would not be doing any good to the Portuguese,
we could be doing some ideological proselytizing,
but the national interest must prevail above all partisan attitudes," he said.
Nuno Melo, the CDS MEP,
believes that a Greek debt restructuring
is "totally absurd nonsense", according to the Observer newspaper.
Nuno Melo indicates that Greece would already have undergone
a restructuring of their debt in November 2012,
if the country had fulfilled a reform plan.
Pointing out the contradictions of António Costa in the case of Greece,
Paulo Portas argued that,
if the socialist leader "were the prime minister,
Syriza would barely have won,
Costa would have gone on an ideological solidarity tour
and on the way brought Portugal nearer to the Greek problem,
by not separating the Portuguese case
from the instability of the Greek situation,
and thereby would dismiss the efforts of the Portuguese people
and the capacity of the Portuguese to recover their income. "
Paulo Portas listed the socialist European leaders
and recommending that António Costa,
the Secretary General of the Socialist Party,
who is constantly complaining about the European policies,
should in the first place, complain to his fellow socialist leaders:
Martin Schultz, the President of the European Parliament;
Sigmar Gabriel, Vice-Chancelor of Germany;
Vítor Costancio, Vice-president of the European Central Bank;
Matteo Renzi, the PM of Italy;
François Hollande, the President of France.
The problem is that ALL of these socialists
have given very harsh comments on the instability
created by the "NO " vote in Greece, and technically
plunged the country into financial "Default".
"At stake is a common project,
which must have common rules.
If the Portuguese Socialist Party wants
a different European policy towards Greece,
they should, first of all,
complain about their socialist counterparts
that all across Europe have said very different things
from what the Socialist Party have said in Portugal, "he said.
Portas insisted a lot on the question relatively to
what "Portugal would actually benefit from associating its case
and its efforts to a situation like that of Greece,
with the uncertainty and volatility that it generates?"
"We would not be doing any good to the Portuguese,
we could be doing some ideological proselytizing,
but the national interest must prevail above all partisan attitudes," he said.
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