The resistance of the Turkish president to the accession of Sweden and Finland to NATO continues to occupy the German press. “Whatever Erdogan “He is encouraged by the crisis in Ukraine, as evidenced by the fact that his army has penetrated kilometers into Greece with fighter jets,” writes the newspaper Tagesspiegel. “These are overflights of the Turkish Air Force near the port of Alexandroupolis. Greece, which like Turkey is a member of NATO, formally filed a complaint on Friday for airspace violation of. ”
In an article entitled “Do not succumb to blackmailers”, the Tageszeitung describes Turkey’s stance as a test for NATO and calls on it not to tolerate violations of international law. However, as the columnist notes, it would not be the first time in the 73 years of its history. “This is true – more so in the case of the degradation of democratic rights and freedoms in Hungary and Poland, which NATO has not yet criticized – especially in the case of the two Member States in Southeastern Europe, Turkey and Greece, which joined in 1952. The United States and NATO not only tolerated the bloody military coups and fascist dictatorships that followed, in Turkey in 1960 and 1980 and in Greece in 1967, but supported them. The same goes for the illegal occupation of northern Cyprus by Turkey since 1976 and the ongoing Turkish military operations in Iraq and Syria. “
“Far from normal”
“Europe is tearing up the Stability Pact again” and “Europe can continue to borrow” are two of the headlines in the German media that summarize the reactions in Germany to the Commission’s decision to maintain the general escape clause of the Stability Pact in 2023. under the weight of the effects of the pandemic and the war in Ukraine.
Debt meter
Although the position of German Finance Minister Christian Lindner is now known and expected, the reactions of the Germans in the European Parliament were varied, according to the Süddeutsche Zeitung. “The Commission is putting the finishing touches on the coffin of the Stability and Growth Pact,” said Markus Ferber, a Bavarian Christian Socialist, referring to “a big mistake that will cost us dearly in the long run.” “Many challenges for our economies and it would be wrong to force countries into unnecessary fiscal discipline.”
In an interview on the same subject in Handelsblatt and other European newspapers, Commissioner Paolo Gentiloni warned that we were far from normalizing the situation and spoke of reforming the Stability Pact after the summer, possibly in the direction of a plan of different speeds. level of debt of each country. “There is, for example, the 1/20 rule, according to which a country must return its debt to 60% within 20 years, which is the ceiling set by the Maastricht criteria. In the case of countries with very high debt it is very difficult to implement such a thing. We would need another approach. “
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