While politicians here are resolutely refusing to discuss the detail of cuts for fear of putting off the voters, the commentators, along with the financial experts, are all busily urging ever more draconian action by Greece and blaming its workers for rising up in protest.
Greece's financial problems face the EU with its greatest crisis since its founding. Unresolved, they could force the break-up of the euro and the fracturing of the Union itself. And yet the whole discussion is taking place in an atmosphere of dilatoriness and censoriousness, as if the markets alone were in charge of events and that they were the final judge of what would happen.
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