According to Joan Casals (1925-1988), and also following Jordi Griera, the less productive European states, like Greece, on losing their currency sovereignty, having a reduced productive ability, and lacking a single European taxation, are heading for an unavoidable indebtedness. This indebtedness is not so much a Greek responsibility, but issues from an economic system which is not sustainable in the long run.
In order to overcome this situation, the former Greek finance minister, Yanis Varoufakis, took the initiative by designing a parallel Greek bank able to lead Greece to recover its currency sovereignty. Not only this, but the German finance minister, Wolfgang Schauble, was on the point of establishing a unique European taxation system. Unfortunately, his initiative has not succeeded up to the present day.
In face of the untenable situation of the peoples of southern Europe in general, and of the Greek people in particular, we claim the application of the General System, a political, economic and social system designed by Agustí Chalaux (1911-2006) and Lluís Maria Xirinacs (1932-2007) which, when applied to the Greek State, or to the European Union as a whole, would grant to these territorial areas a really scientific economy, able to eradicate material destitution to the utmost, and simultaneously corruption and the misuse of power, endowing the community with a true budgetary balance.
Brauli Tamarit Tamarit.
Friday, 11th December 2015.
Translation: Loto Perrella.
Ekathimerini.com. Monday, July 27th, 2015.
Varoufakis admits plans for parallel payment system, denies Grexit goal.
Ex-Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis has admitted that a report by Kathimerini concerning his comments to investors about having explored a plan to create a parallel payment system while in office were accurate but he insists that he did not intend to take Greece out of the euro.
«The context of all this is that they want to present me as a rogue finance minister, and have me indicted for treason,» Varoufakis told the Daily Telegraph.
«It is all part of an attempt to annul the first five months of this government and put it in the dustbin of history,» he said. «It totally distorts my purpose for wanting parallel liquidity. I have always been completely against dismantling the euro because we never know what dark forces that might unleash in Europe.»
Kathimerini published extracts of the teleconference Varoufakis took part in earlier this month, in which he explained that he hired an IT expert to set up a parallel banking system based on IOUs. Varoufakis explained to investors that he authorized the unnamed man, a friend, to hack into the General Secretariat for Public Revenues’ website to obtain the information necessary to set up the shadow payment system.
«I always told Tsipras that it will not be plain sailing but this is the price you have to pay for liberty,» Varoufakis told the Telegraph.
«But when the time came he realized that it was just too difficult. I don't know when he reached that decision. I only learned explicitly on the night of the referendum, and that is why I offered to resign.»
New Democracy led calls from the opposition parties for the government to provide more information about Varoufakis’s revelations, as well as reports that ex-Energy Minister Panayiotis Lafazanis had been at the forefront of a plan to seize cash reserves at the National Mint if Greece was poised to leave the euro.
«The revelations that are coming out raise a major political, economic and moral issue for the government which need in-depth examination,» the conservatives said in a statement.
«Is it true that a designated team in the finance ministry had undertaken work on a backup plan? Is it true they had planned to raid the National Mint and that they prepared for a parallel currency by hacking the tax registration numbers of the taxpayers?»
Schaeuble.
During the teleconference, Varoufakis also told his audience that German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble believes Greece has to leave the eurozone so the single currency can be strengthened. He told the Telegraph that he believes this could even lead to Greece and its lenders failing to agree the terms for a third bailout.
«Everybody knows the International Monetary Fund does not want to take part in a new program but Schauble is insisting that it does as a condition for new loans. I have a strong suspicion that there will be no deal on August 20,» he said.
«Schauble will then say it is yet another failure. He is just stringing us along. He has not given up his plan to push Greece out of the euro.»
Link to original article in English language:
http://www.ekathimerini.com/199951/article/ekathimerini/news/varoufakis-admits-plans-for-parallel-payment-system-denies-grexit-goal
Related links:
Money and constitution.
The European tax disunion. Joan Casals.
A short history of money.
