Evangelos Venizelos, who was brought in as Finance Minister of Greece just two weeks ago…reinforced the importance of euro zone membership to the country and said: “We are a member of the European Union and a member of the euro zone. This is definitive and not a reversible situation.” [CNBC]
European Union
Greece Finance PM Has A Message For EU Members: Not Even A Valtrex Rx Will Make Us Go Away
By Bess LevinThe Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou is not too pleased with the EU’s pledge of some sort of help yesterday, which lacks any concrete measures. Papandreou’s response came down to, “thanks guys, but too little, too late.”
It’s been made perfectly clear by everyone with something to lose from Europe’s ever-changing-but-still-draconian hedge fund regulation proposals that they’ll be a disaster. Hedge funds will leave in droves, London will be left a ghost town with tumbleweed rolling down Knightsbridge Road, subsistence farming in Hyde Park and (most terrifyingly) slightly less rich people occupying Mayfair townhouses.
So, yes, we get it: The regulations are going to hurt. But one lawyer is not content to leave the fearmongering at a reasonable level.
The regulations, watered down or not, will wash the European Union clean of hedge funds, according to Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer’s Michael Raffan.
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