mánudagur, 28. febrúar 2011

Finns Threaten Debt Bailout Plan as Election Nears: Euro Credit - Businessweek

"Feb. 28 (Bloomberg) -- Finnish voters may prove as great a threat to the euro region’s retooled bailout plan as German taxpayers.

Support for the anti-euro True Finns party has soared as an April 17 election nears. It’s the fastest-growing movement in the northernmost euro member, with opinion-poll backing to rival the nation’s biggest opposition party. Voters are rallying to its argument that Europe shouldn’t have rescued Greece or Ireland, and Finland should veto more cash for the bailout fund.

“How come they can’t see the euro doesn’t work?” Timo Soini, leader of the True Finns, said in a Feb. 24 phone interview. “If a melon and an apple each wear the same size baseball cap, everyone can see that just doesn’t work.”"