{"id":678368,"date":"2010-03-01T05:07:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-01T10:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/european-finance-minister-refuse-to-admit-they-need-imf-help-for-greece-2010-3"},"modified":"2010-03-01T05:07:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-01T10:07:00","slug":"european-finance-minister-refuses-to-admit-he-needs-imf-help-for-greece","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/678368","title":{"rendered":"European Finance Minister Refuses To Admit He Needs IMF Help For Greece"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"float_right\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/static.businessinsider.com\/image\/4b75273a00000000009f37fb-400-\/imf.gif?w=400\" border=\"0\" alt=\"IMF\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Jean-Claude Juncker, the head of the Eurozone&#8217;s finance ministers, is refusing to acknowledge any need for IMF help.<\/p>\n<p>Europe can take care of the current crisis on its own:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eubusiness.com\/news-eu\/greece-imf-economy.36w\/\">EU Business:<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;I think that a commitment by the IMF, beyond technical help, is not necessary,&#8221; Juncker told the German business daily Handelsblatt.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The IMF&#8217;s role in a possible Greek rescue divides politicians in Europe, with those opposed saying the 16-nation eurozone is capable of dealing with the situation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Others say the fund has more experience helping countries get their finances in order and could impose more fiscal discipline than European authorities.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s just hope that pride doesn&#8217;t get in the way of asking for help, if or when it is truly needed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/european-finance-minister-refuse-to-admit-they-need-imf-help-for-greece-2010-3#comments\">Join the conversation about this story &#187;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>See Also:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/head-of-imf-calls-on-member-states-to-give-him-global-oversight-of-the-financial-system-2010-2\">Head Of IMF Calls On Member States To Give Him Global Oversight Of The Financial System<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/ecb-rejects-imfs-idea-2010-2\">Euro Bulls Suffer A Near Miss As IMF Suggests Europe Target Higher Inflation<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/gold-survives-body-blows-from-imf-and-bernanke-and-is-now-above-1120-2010-2\">Gold Survives Body Blows From IMF And Bernanke And Is Now Above $1120<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheMoneyGame\/~4\/IJ39sXe2jgg\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jean-Claude Juncker, the head of the Eurozone&#8217;s finance ministers, is refusing to acknowledge any need for IMF help. Europe can take care of the current crisis on its own: EU Business: &#8220;I think that a commitment by the IMF, beyond technical help, is not necessary,&#8221; Juncker told the German business daily Handelsblatt. &#8230; The IMF&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-678368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2Qtq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=678368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678368\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=678368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=678368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=678368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}