Jason Groves, dans le Daily Mail, rapporte que Monsieur Baroso commence à s’inquiéter de possibles risques d’émeutes susceptibles de se produire en Grèce, au Portugal et en Espagne pouvant mettre en danger le système démocratique dans ces pays:
"Democracy could ‘collapse’ in Greece, Spain and Portugal unless urgent action is taken to tackle the debt crisis, the head of the European Commission has warned. In
an extraordinary briefing to trade union chiefs last week, Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso set out an ‘apocalyptic’ vision in which crisis-hit countries in southern Europe could fall
victim to military coups or popular uprisings as interest rates soar and public services collapse because their governments run out of money".
A présent, l’Union Européenne se penche dans le grand secret sur l’élaboration d’un plan de sauvetage de plusieurs centaines de milliards spécialement conçu pour l’Espagne.
"The stark warning came as it emerged that EU chiefs have begun work on an emergency bailout package for Spain which is likely to run into hundreds of billions of
pounds ... Mr Monks ... said: ‘I had a discussion with Barroso last Friday about what can be done for Greece, Spain, Portugal and the rest and his message was blunt: “Look, if they do not carry
out these austerity packages, these countries could virtually disappear in the way that we know them as democracies. They've got no
choice, this is it.”
Toutefois, Monsieur Boroso demeure sceptique : Il craint que l’échec de ces plans de sauvetage n’engendre une explosion sociale dans ces pays pouvant les conduire à une disparition « virtuelle » en tant que nations démocratiques.
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