Now those uninformed in Croatia's two main political parties will think twice about whether they must pursue a policy which suits the interests of financial circles in some developed European countries, a policy which "has been torturing the entire continent, keeping it in stagnation a whole decade, including Croatia, leaving it in the company of undeveloped countries from which the best young people are running for their lives," Ribic said in a press release.
The Greek resistance enables Europe to preserve its democratic identity and the prevention of dictates from technocratic centres which do not have the support of European citizens, he said, adding that Sunday's referendum enabled Greece to leave the "unfortunate euro area and return to the national currency as the best way to restore the competitiveness of the Greek economy."
He accused Croatia's "big disseminators of fallacies, neoliberal zealots in economics, media and politics" of allowing a domination of wrong and disrespectful messages about Greece in Croatian media.
He said it was in Croatia's national interest to debunk the fallacies and myths about Greeks, such as that they are "lazy" and "refuse to pay their debts", because Croatian citizens do not know, for instance, that apart from its irresponsible governments, the inconsiderate introduction of the euro was to blame for the Greek situation before 2010 or that, although consumption dropped by 38%, public debt jumped from 120 to 180% of GDP since the Troika's arrival in Greece in May 2010.
The Greeks have a problem not because they did not do their homework, but because they did what the creditors asked, Ribic said.
He said Croatia's "neoliberal Taleban" had not noticed yet that Syriza was not a radical party but that it advocated coming out of the debt crisis within the framework of a capitalist and market economy based on the principles applied by US President Barack Obama. He said this approach made capitalism possible, suiting workers, undertakings and investors, not just financial capital whose short-sighted perspective was the biggest threat to capitalist production.
Syriza is an authentic social democratic pro-European option whose ideas are far more useful for the private sector than those of Croatia's neoliberals, Ribic said.