We were told this morning that: Rajoy says Spain’s economy will return to growth in the latter part of 2013 and in 2014.
The Greek Finance Minister Yannis Stournaras, against all the odds, says exactly the same. Verbatim. The same was observed a while ago with Antonis Samaras’ statements of: Greece has regained confidence! Things will start picking up at the end of the year. Which was exactly what the disgraced and disgraceful Papaconstantinou had said in 2010 when he was Minister of Finances.
Why? To build up faith in the future? They have nothing better to say? Or because they simply do not know, they end up saying something, anything. But why are they all saying exactly the same things? Which, so far have never been vindicated.
Mind you, should any of these lovely predictions come true after all, and we are all praying (because that is all we can do) that they will, it will be out of fluke chance and not because anything any of these dignitaries have done, of course.
Still more and more one can’t help feeling that in its downgraded status, the Commission has finally found a job it thinks it can do! It cans all these bland statements and shares them around to those in dire need of something to say as they find themselves slamming against a blank wall to the future.
It is a bit sad though that they cannot even do this with any flare, with any imagination. But the Commission…. well, it has been completed castrated by The Frau and her side kick then Sarkozy who took it upon themselves to dictate EU policy and completely by pass the European Commission whose job it really was.
And the sad thing is that the Commission just grinned, kow towed and accepted it. Why? Well, for one, when you have nonentities in serious jobs do not expect them to take the job seriously. They would so much rather do nothing except, perhaps, can bland statements they can then pass around while pretending that they are actually there for something other than wielding the proverbial rubber stamp.