{"id":3342,"date":"2015-07-08T19:49:06","date_gmt":"2015-07-08T19:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/?p=3342"},"modified":"2015-07-08T19:49:44","modified_gmt":"2015-07-08T19:49:44","slug":"greece-and-the-grexit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/greece-and-the-grexit\/","title":{"rendered":"Greece and the Grexit"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3343\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft post-item__attachment\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2015\/07\/6755068753_6e8558ae43_z.jpg\" aria-label=\"6755068753 6e8558ae43 Z 300x201\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3343\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3343\"  alt=\"EU Flag (photo by MPD01605 taken from Flickr.com)\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" \/ src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2015\/07\/6755068753_6e8558ae43_z-300x201.jpg\"><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3343\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">EU Flag (photo by MPD01605 taken from Flickr.com)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The European Union is under a lot of pressure at the moment because of the situation in Greece. While some are in favor of the Greek refusing anymore cutbacks, others argue that their debts cannot be forgiven. The following days will prove to be difficult ones in which our leaders and the troika will decide the fate of the Union. Needless to say, whatever decision is made, it will mark the path of the Union as well as the world.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been trying to keep myself updated with the news about Greece and the financial crisis through different news sources. This is especially important, I think, in order to get a real grasp on the subject because each news source and the country they are based in sells the news for their public. While the news sources in English are varied in opinion, I can&#8217;t help but want to know what the Dutch are writing about. Because of this, I am recently acquiring more vocabulary related to the financial crisis that I think is useful. Here are just some of the most important terms or concepts I&#8217;ve come across.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>oplossing-<\/i> Perhaps the most important word in all the information about Greece is this one&#8230;a solution. Greece and the rest of the EU countries cannot seem to find a unified solution for the financial problems in Greece.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><em>akkoord<\/em>&#8211; The reason why the EU cannot find an <em>oplossing<\/em>\u00a0is because there seems to be no agreement or <em>akkoord.<\/em> Greece has an upcoming deadline of a couple billions of Euros to pay to their creditors. The EU has recently given Greece this coming Sunday as the deadline to propose a solution for the financial crisis.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><em>geldschieters-\u00a0<\/em>These are the organizations that have given Greece loans to cover their costs and pay their debts. In this particular case, the <em>geldschieters<\/em> or the \u00a0lenders are the European Union, the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund. A more common term in the news has been &#8220;troika&#8221; which is Russian for trio.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><em>bezuinigingen<\/em>&#8211; One of the conditions for the bailout was that the Greek government must take cut-backs or\u00a0<em>bezuinigingen<\/em>\u00a0from pensions and other social programs. This is something Greece has not done to the satisfaction of the EU, and one of the reasons many Greeks voted &#8220;no&#8221; in last Sunday&#8217;s referendum.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><em>schuldenverlichting<\/em>&#8211; One of the most controversial solutions to Greece&#8217;s debt would be\u00a0<em>schuldenverlichting\u00a0<\/em>or debt relief. Germany&#8217;s Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Monday that Germany would refuse any type of debt relief for Greece. After Tuesday&#8217;s emergency meeting in Brussels, she said that partial debt relief can only be a possibility when Greece presents a real <em>oplossing<\/em>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><em>steunpakket-<\/em> The Greek government has requested a\u00a0<em>steunpakket<\/em> or an aid package from the ESM or the European Stability Mechanism. While all emergency funds to Greece were suspended last week with the announcement of the referendum, the Greek government has asked for another aid package because the Greek banks are out of money.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><i>uitstappen-<\/i>\u00a0If the EU cannot reach an agreement over the Greek financial crisis, the <em>uitstappen<\/em>\u00a0of Greece (referred to as Grexit) seems inevitable. Chancellor Merkel and President Obama spoke last Tuesday and agreed that keeping Greece in the EU is in everyone&#8217;s best interest.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><em>wachten-<\/em> There is nothing left to do but to wait and hope that our leaders can come up with the best\u00a0<i>oplossing.<\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p>The following is a video of a press conference the Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte gave this past week.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Rutte hoopt op een wondertje - RTL NIEUWS\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5nWePFYc554?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>What are your thoughts on this situation?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<img width=\"350\" height=\"234\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2015\/07\/6755068753_6e8558ae43_z-350x234.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image tmp-hide-img\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2015\/07\/6755068753_6e8558ae43_z-350x234.jpg 350w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2015\/07\/6755068753_6e8558ae43_z.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><p>The European Union is under a lot of pressure at the moment because of the situation in Greece. While some are in favor of the Greek refusing anymore cutbacks, others argue that their debts cannot be forgiven. The following days will prove to be difficult ones in which our leaders and the troika will decide&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/greece-and-the-grexit\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":120,"featured_media":3343,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[27711,27714],"tags":[358690,3190,66317,358689,10149],"class_list":["post-3342","post","type-post","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dutch-vocabulary-2","category-news-2","tag-european-union","tag-financial-crisis","tag-greece","tag-grexit","tag-netherlands"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/120"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3342"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3347,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3342\/revisions\/3347"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}