Germany ups pressure on Greeks

German Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President Nicolas Sarkozy and Greek Prime Minister Giorgos Papandreou have scheduled a crisis telephone call for today. Will Germany now announce Greece's insolvency? the liberal daily To Ethnos asks in alarm: "Is Berlin already past the blackmail phase and now preparing our country's bankruptcy? Or with her threats is the chancellor trying to cripple the Greek people's resistance to the hellish measures dictated by the Troika and implemented by the Papandreou government? Many Greeks are asking themselves this very question, but only the future holds the answer. What is certain however is that Athens' servile attitude in response to the German demands has achieved nothing. It has neither strengthened the Greek negotiating position nor tempered the aggressiveness of the EU rulers."

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