Greece; ever since I moved to America and for years thereafter, I have been trying to find news, any news about Greece in the local and national US newspapers. But, after years of failing to do so, I came to the realization that Greece, is really too small – it does not matter. This of course was to change with 2010 rolling in…
It has been now about two months that, to my shocking surprise, we have been bombarded with news about Greece. Every single day, there is one or more stories in the front page of the Wall Street Journal and other newspapers, all analyzing the importance of Greece in the European Union in particular, and the world’s financial health in general. I have spent the last few days in Denmark and Germany and a day does not go by without seeing Greece in the front, middle and back pages of the Financial Times and other newspapers written in languages beyond the four I can personally speak. So the question is, what makes little-tiny Greece, all of a sudden the center of the universe again? Don’t get me wrong, I am thrilled that Greece is in the news daily, but the question is why does Greece matter?
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The European Union is commonly abbreviated as simply the EU, and is the collection of many of the countries located in what is generally considered to be the continent of Europe. The Union has been in existence since 1993, and the initiatives it has undertaken have been both political and economic. Perhaps the most publicly well known initiative that is recognized in North American is that the European Union established a standardized currency across most of Europe, which is known as the Euro. European Union trivia will show that sixteen countries have now adopted the Euro officially.
A European Union quiz will show that there are twenty seven countries that are members of the organization. They are in alphabetical order, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden and the UK.
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Recently President Obama has made certain things clear, the American government can figure out ways to make our economy ‘look’ like it is better than it is. Since America is in a struggle to keep its own homegrown corporations at home, it seems the government is doing all it can do to show the world we are still the top dog economy. If America looses its top dog economy status it looses the control over the possible one-world government, which has recently been in the news, and being prematurely pushed on the world. But why would a group of countries push a one-world government on the rest of the countries without every country being in alignment with the idea? Recently many world leaders have been talking about the quick assembly of a ‘New World Order’ (Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, France’s President Nicolas Sarkozy, Henry Kissinger, even the American media).
If all these countries are calling on the United States to quickly put together and maintain a new world order that will be the merging of many countries into a single governed body over which there will be a single leader to call the shots, maybe the people should be told why and to whom they will have to answer to. People of the countries who are a part of this ‘new world order’ seem to be mostly uneducated as to the transparency of this entire plot by these hosting countries. The seemingly opaque walls around the possible emergence of a new world government that will eliminate the sovereignty of the individual countries and form a single governed body, are high and not being given the exposure needed to keep the average citizen informed.
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