{"id":62796,"date":"2015-08-24T12:00:57","date_gmt":"2015-08-24T11:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=62796"},"modified":"2015-08-22T15:10:24","modified_gmt":"2015-08-22T14:10:24","slug":"occupy-greece-germany-wins-bid-to-run-regional-airports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2015\/08\/occupy-greece-germany-wins-bid-to-run-regional-airports\/","title":{"rendered":"Occupy Greece: Germany Wins Bid to Run Regional Airports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The sale is on but the money isn&#8217;t in the bank yet. While Greece waits for European Parliaments to approve the country&#8217;s bailout package, German airport operator FRAPORT has won the bid to takeover and run 14 Greek regional airports in the first (of many) privatization deals done by the Syriza government.<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_62797\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/greece-athens-bailout-eu-germany-debt-occupation-airport.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-62797\" class=\"wp-image-62797\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/greece-athens-bailout-eu-germany-debt-occupation-airport.jpg\" alt=\"\u00a9 Flickr\/ Melissa Maples\" width=\"600\" height=\"325\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/greece-athens-bailout-eu-germany-debt-occupation-airport.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/greece-athens-bailout-eu-germany-debt-occupation-airport-300x162.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-62797\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u00a9 Flickr\/ Melissa Maples<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em>18 Aug 2015 &#8211; <\/em>For the next 40 years and for $1.36 billion (\u20ac1.23bn) FRAPORT will own and operate Greece&#8217;s most popular tourist island airports, including Mykonos, Rhodes, Santorini, Corfu and Kos.<\/p>\n<p>However, Alexis Tsipras isn&#8217;t jetting anywhere soon. Instead he is sitting tightly tensely waiting for\u00a0the results from\u00a0EU parliaments involved in\u00a0the approval of\u00a0the bailout.<\/p>\n<p>Estonia has voted against\u00a0providing more cash for\u00a0Greece, rejecting the proposal of\u00a0a bridging loan in\u00a0case the bailout can&#8217;t be secured by\u00a0Thursday, but\u00a0voted in\u00a0favor of\u00a0the new bailout Tuesday afternoon.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Estonian?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" >#Estonian<\/a> parliament <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Riigikogu?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" >@riigikogu<\/a> approved new bailout for <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Greece?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" >#Greece<\/a>: 50 for, 37 against, 6 abstaining.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Raimo Poom (@RaimoPoom) <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RaimoPoom\/status\/633650332774572032?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" >August 18, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>And yet the crisis doesn&#8217;t appear to\u00a0be ending anytime soon\u00a0\u2014 whether it&#8217;s a bridging loan or bailout. Spanish MPs have also passed the bailout vote in\u00a0parliament on\u00a0Tuesday, however the rescue deal still needs to\u00a0go through\u00a0Austria, Portugal and the Netherlands.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/LondonerVince\/status\/633663283480932352\/photo\/1?ref_src=twsrc^tfw<\/p>\n<p>This is good news for\u00a0Tsipras who warned his government that the German proposal to\u00a0give the country a bridging loan instead of\u00a0a new bailout would be &#8220;a return to\u00a0a crisis without\u00a0end.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Germany, which is offering the lion share of\u00a0cash for\u00a0the bailout will begin its formal debate on\u00a0Wednesday\u00a0\u2014 and some members of\u00a0the Bundestag are predicted to\u00a0vote &#8216;No&#8217;. Even the deputy chairman is undecided, leaving Tsipras anxiously waiting.<\/p>\n<p>Offering a glimmer of\u00a0hope is Finland which has already given the bailout parliamentary approval, despite\u00a0seeing the possibility of\u00a0Greece leaving the currency union as\u00a0an opportunity for\u00a0Finland to\u00a0do the same.<\/p>\n<p>But if times weren&#8217;t tough enough for\u00a0Tsipras, the UN are calling for &#8220;much more leadership&#8221; to\u00a0tackle the Mediterranean migrant crisis.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/AFP\/status\/633655797755551744\/photo\/1?ref_src=twsrc^tfw<\/p>\n<p>Athens has sent a passenger ship to\u00a0Kos to\u00a0help process asylum seekers after\u00a0violence broke out\u00a0on Kos and migrants were forced to\u00a0wait in\u00a0an unventilated stadium without\u00a0any water.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_62798\" style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/greece-athens-bailout-eu-germany-debt-occupation-airport2.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-62798\" class=\"wp-image-62798\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/greece-athens-bailout-eu-germany-debt-occupation-airport2-1024x656.jpg\" alt=\"\u00a9 AFP 2015\/ BULENT KILIC A migrant walks to a boat to reach the Greek island of Kos on early August 18, 2015.\" width=\"700\" height=\"449\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/greece-athens-bailout-eu-germany-debt-occupation-airport2-1024x656.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/greece-athens-bailout-eu-germany-debt-occupation-airport2-300x192.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-62798\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u00a9 AFP 2015\/ BULENT KILIC<br \/> A migrant walks to a boat to reach the Greek island of Kos on early August 18, 2015.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The same island set to\u00a0be taken over\u00a0by Germans\u00a0\u2014 not on\u00a0holiday\u00a0\u2014 but\u00a0in control of\u00a0the airport\u00a0\u2014 and 13 others.<\/p>\n<p>_______________________________________<\/p>\n<p><em>Sputnik<\/em><em>, a major new media brand with modern multimedia centers in dozens of countries, was launched on November 10, 2014. Sputnik points the way to a multipolar world that respects every country\u2019s national interests, culture, history and traditions. Sputnik tells the untold. The agency is uniquely positioned as a provider of alternative news content and a radio broadcaster.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/sputniknews.com\/europe\/20150818\/1025888183.html\" >Go to Original \u2013 sputniknews.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The sale is on but the money isn&#8217;t in the bank yet. While Greece waits for European Parliaments to approve the country&#8217;s bailout package, German airport operator FRAPORT has won the bid to takeover and run 14 Greek regional airports in the first (of many) privatization deals done by the Syriza government.<\/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-62796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62796","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=62796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62796\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}