With her skirt decently below the knee, on Monday night, the European Union was watching TV and eating popcorn, happy that she had finally managed to patch together a plan to rescue the Eurozone, when Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou suddenly appeared on screen and announced that he would hold a referendum, on the approval of the foreign aid package of 130 billion Euros agreed with the European leaders in October.
The European Union thought she was watching "Muppets".
"Will the Greeks accept the new agreement or not? If they do not want it, it will not be adopted", Papandreou said, who announced that he would hold the referendum in a few weeks, but Greek finance minister Evangelos Venizelos said it would take place in January. After that, the EU felt like it was watching "Wackos in the EU".
Except it wasn"t either. It was the news from the public television in Athens.
The glasses of the European Union fell off its nose, and so did its popcorn.
And so did its stocks.
The poor European Union fell on its back, eyes popping out, babbling angrily: the president of the Eurogroup, Jean-Claude Juncker of Luxemburg, said for radio station RTL that he does not rule out the Greek default in the event of a negative vote in the Referendum (a recent Greek poll showed that 60% of the Greeks disagree with the foreign financial aid").
The European Union choked with anger, and Germany nearly had a heart attack: the president of the "Bavarian Financial Centre" "think tank" said: "This proves once again what a huge mistake it was, not kicking Greece out of the Eurozone in the first place", and Joerg Rocholl, president of the "European School of Management and Technology" in Berlin said that the Referendum announced by Papandreou could lead to "Greece no longer being a part of the European Union".
The European Union is feeling black
