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by peterfirefly 4088 days ago
Or to really hammer the point home: Slovaks should pay for Greece? Estonians should pay for Greece?

That Greece's voting rights in the EU haven't been suspended yet is a travesty. I hope it will happen soon (and that Macedonia finally will be allowed to call itself Macedonia!) and that confiscations of Greek property to pay for the loans will follow.

Or maybe we could sell Greece back to the Turks? ;)

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You seem quite happy with the idea of a country being sold, and its citizens denied the right of democracy, 2500 years after having invented it.
The jurisdiction of the Greek government does not extend to Germany or Slovakia or Estonia. The Greek voters do not have a say in what the governments of those countries must do. The voters of Germany, Slovakia, and Estonia do. That's how democracy works.

(And your voting rights in the EU /can/ actually be suspended, quite legally. There are obligations you have to live up to -- and if you don't, you don't get to have a vote.)