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2015年 07月 08日
The prominent French economist Thomas Piketty, who rocketed to fame last year with his book on income inequality, “Capital in the Twenty-First Century,” is slamming Germany’s refusal to consider debt relief for Greece.
In an interview with German newspaper Die Zeit, Piketty said Germany didn't repay its external debt after World War I nor did it repay debts after World War II and thus “has no standing to lecture other nations.”
Piketty said the postwar German economic miracle was rooted at least in part on debt relief, noting that the London Debt Agreement of 1953 forgave 60% of German foreign debt and restructured its internal debts. Similar steps should be taken now with Greece, he said.
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“The Greeks have, without a doubt, made big mistakes. Until 2009, the government in Athens forged its books. But despite this, the younger generation of Greeks carries no more responsibility for the mistakes of its elders than the younger generation of Germans did in the 1950s and 1960s. We need to look ahead. Europe was founded on debt forgiveness and investment in the future,” Piketty said.
He went on to call for an international conference on all European debts, as occurred after World War II. “A restructuring of all debt, not just in Greece but in several European countries, is inevitable,” he said.
Then, to prevent the regrowth of debt, a new European institution must, argued Piketty, be set up to determine the size of member states’ budget deficits.
Politicians who instead press for Greece to leave the eurozone “will end up on the trash heap of history,” Piketty said.
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