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SChauble triste e "arrependido."
Wolfgang Schäuble, ex-ministro das Finanças alemão, concedeu este fim-de-semana uma entrevista ao Financial Times em que expressa tristeza e algum arrependimento pela forma como a crise das dívidas soberanas foi gerida.
“Bem…sinto-me triste, porque tive um papel em tudo isso. E penso como podíamos ter feito as coisas de forma diferente”, admitiu, questionado sobre a pressão exercida sobre os países do Sul da Europa e a forma hostil como é hoje recordado em países como a Grécia, numa entrevista em que não chega a mencionar Portugal.
Wolfgang Schäuble, ex-ministro das Finanças alemão, concedeu este fim-de-semana uma entrevista ao Financial Times em que expressa tristeza e algum arrependimento pela forma como a crise das dívidas soberanas foi gerida.
“Bem…sinto-me triste, porque tive um papel em tudo isso. E penso como podíamos ter feito as coisas de forma diferente”, admitiu, questionado sobre a pressão exercida sobre os países do Sul da Europa e a forma hostil como é hoje recordado em países como a Grécia, numa entrevista em que não chega a mencionar Portugal.
Questionado sobre o que mudaria concretamente, o actual presidente do parlamento alemão voltou a insistir que a Grécia nunca devia ter aderido à zona euro, e revelou que chegou a sugerir a Giorgos Papakonstantinou, na altura ministro das Finanças helénico, o afastamento de Atenas da moeda única durante uma década.
“Disse-lhe que seria preciso desvalorizar a moeda grega, que eles não eram competitivos, e, por isso, que precisavam de sair do euro durante um período de tempo. Mas todos disseram que não haveria hipótese de isso vir a acontecer”, recordou.
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Schäuble switches seamlessly back to the eurozone crisis. The original mistake was in trying to create a common currency without a “common economic, employment and social policy” for all eurozone member states. The fathers of the euro had decided that if they waited for political union to happen first they’d wait forever, he says. Yet the prospects for greater political union are now worse than they have been in years. “The construction of the EU has proven to be questionable,” he says. “We should have taken the bigger steps towards integration earlier on, and now, because we can’t convince the member states to take them, they are unachievable.” Greece was a particularly thorny problem. It should never have been admitted to the euro club in the first place, Schäuble says. But when its debt crisis first blew up, it should have taken a 10-year “timeout” from the eurozone — an idea he first floated with Giorgos Papakonstantinou, his Greek counterpart between 2009 and 2011. “I told him you need to be able to devalue your currency, you’re not competitive,” he says. The reforms required to repair the Greek economy were going to be “hard to achieve in a democracy”. “That’s why you need to leave the euro for a certain period. But everyone said there was no chance of that.” The idea didn’t go away, though. Schäuble pushed for a temporary “Grexit” in 2015, during another round of the debt crisis. But Merkel and the other EU heads of government nixed the idea. He now reveals he thought about resigning over the issue. “On the morning the decision was made, [Merkel] said to me: ‘You’ll carry on?’ . . . But that was one of the instances where we were very close [to my stepping down].”
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Schäuble switches seamlessly back to the eurozone crisis. The original mistake was in trying to create a common currency without a “common economic, employment and social policy” for all eurozone member states. The fathers of the euro had decided that if they waited for political union to happen first they’d wait forever, he says. Yet the prospects for greater political union are now worse than they have been in years. “The construction of the EU has proven to be questionable,” he says. “We should have taken the bigger steps towards integration earlier on, and now, because we can’t convince the member states to take them, they are unachievable.” Greece was a particularly thorny problem. It should never have been admitted to the euro club in the first place, Schäuble says. But when its debt crisis first blew up, it should have taken a 10-year “timeout” from the eurozone — an idea he first floated with Giorgos Papakonstantinou, his Greek counterpart between 2009 and 2011. “I told him you need to be able to devalue your currency, you’re not competitive,” he says. The reforms required to repair the Greek economy were going to be “hard to achieve in a democracy”. “That’s why you need to leave the euro for a certain period. But everyone said there was no chance of that.” The idea didn’t go away, though. Schäuble pushed for a temporary “Grexit” in 2015, during another round of the debt crisis. But Merkel and the other EU heads of government nixed the idea. He now reveals he thought about resigning over the issue. “On the morning the decision was made, [Merkel] said to me: ‘You’ll carry on?’ . . . But that was one of the instances where we were very close [to my stepping down].”
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