«Ζούμε ιστορικές στιγμές, το project της ΕΕ πεθαίνει»

O Paul Krugman συνιστά μέσα από τη στήλη του στους New York Times να προσέξουμε τα όσα δήλωσε στο Bloomberg ο πρώην επικεφαλής της Κεντρικής Τράπεζας της Κύπρου Αθανάσιος Ορφανίδης.

Ο κ. Ορφανίδης εμφανίστηκε...


...κάτι περισσότερο από απαισιόδοξος δηλώνοντας ότι η αντιμετώπιση της Ευρωπαϊκής Ένωσης στην Κύπρο δείχνει ότι το project της (ενωμένης) Ευρώπης πεθαίνει:

We are witnessing historic times. What we are witnessing is the slow death of the European Project. We are in a situation that some European governments are essentially taking actions that are telling citizens of other member states that they are not equal under the law(...)
What we have seen in the last few days is a very serious blunder by European governments that are essentially blackmailing the government of Cyprus to confiscate the money that belongs rightfully to depositors in the banking sector in Cyprus. It is not clear how this can affect in a positive matter the European project going forward."  

http://www.parapolitiki.com/2013/03/zoume-istorikes-stigmes-to-project-tis-ee-pethainei.html

Shorter Cyprus

So, a quick summary: The Germans don’t want a Cyprus collapse / exit from the euro, but they also don’t want the spectacle of German taxpayers bailing out Russian money-launderers. So what they did instead was blackmail Cyprus into having Cypriot depositors bail out Russian money-launderers. That way Germany’s hands are clean.
Am I missing something?
Also, pretty awesomely straight talk from Athanasios Orphanides.

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/03/19/shorter-cyprus/