{"id":21034,"date":"2012-08-27T12:00:24","date_gmt":"2012-08-27T11:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=21034"},"modified":"2012-08-26T20:28:40","modified_gmt":"2012-08-26T19:28:40","slug":"greece-may-sell-off-islands-amid-privatization-scheme-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2012\/08\/greece-may-sell-off-islands-amid-privatization-scheme-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Greece May Sell Off Islands amid Privatization Scheme: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras said this week [23 Aug 2012] that the country is willing to sell off its uninhabited islands as part of a plan to accelerate privatization across the country, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lemonde.fr\/economie\/article\/2012\/08\/23\/si-nous-faisons-notre-travail-la-grece-peut-etre-sauvee_1748749_3234.html\"  target=\"_blank\">telling French newspaper <em>Le Monde<\/em><\/a> that it is the only way to save Greece.<\/p>\n<p>The prime minister was quoted that Greece would still retain national sovereignty over any islands sold to private investors, \u201con condition that it doesn\u2019t pose a national security problem.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt would not be a case of getting rid of the isles, but of transforming unused terrain into capital that can generate revenue, for a fair price,\u201d Samaras reportedly said.<\/p>\n<p>The country possesses about 6,000 tiny islands in the Mediterranean Sea, but only about 227 are actually inhabited. Samaras reportedly said that the Greece is finally willing to let some of the uninhabited islands be used for commercial purposes, which Greek lawmakers <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2010\/jun\/29\/greece-not-for-sale\"  target=\"_blank\">have long resisted<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The German government first suggested in 2010 that Greece sell off some islands, drawing outrage. In Thursday\u2019s [23 Aug 2012] edition of <em>Le Monde<\/em>, Samaras painted a dark picture of a potential Greek exit from Europe\u2019s common currency and insisted the government continue selling off assets and public lands.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.stumbleupon.com\/su\/2nxwNK\/www.rawstory.com\/rs\/2012\/08\/23\/greece-may-sell-off-islands-amid-privatization-scheme-report\/\" >Go to Original \u2013 stumbleupon.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras said this week [23 Aug 2012] that the country is willing to sell off its uninhabited islands as part of a plan to accelerate privatization across the country, telling French newspaper Le Monde that it is the only way to save Greece.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21034\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}