[NotableAlamode]

    Your money went mainly to your Banks, via Greece.

And if we send bread to feed the poor, you'd book that under "your money went mainly to your bakeries". It's just dishonest. Moreover, it's even factually false that the majority of the bailout money was used for bailing out banks. Only 1/3 of the credits were used for this purpose. The rest fuelled consumption in Greece, and/or was off-shored by the greek elites.

    your Banks

You are following Syriza's xenophobia ... always blame the germans. French banks were the biggest private debtors.

[rihegher]

It's a long serie of mistakes that led us there. Maybe european leader should have stop postponing the crash and let greece default on all its debt to private creditor and let the impacted banks to go bankrupt like Credit Agricole for instance. But because in every major banks in europe, commercial banking and investment banking are not seperate activities, along with the banks bankruptcy a lot of people would have lost a lot of money.

So French and German politicians did not want this to happen. Greece was not alone to have financial problems, Ireland, Spain and Portugal had some as well but after a long austerity cure they are now stable. But austerity just didn't work as expected in Greece.

[exceptione]

It should be noted that Greece's economy was climbing again, but since Syriza got in power it all went downhill and al the growth has been destroyed. I'm not an economist, but to me it seems like the patient ran away during the operation.

[honest_joe]

Germany and Austria should not have existed after WW2. They pretty much annexed economically Ostbloc via EU.