Should Greece stop the economic aids to the poor neighbourds (FYROM, Albania and Turkey)?
Same question, different day. *Sigh* I don’t believe Greece gives aid to Turkey, so I’ll speak only in regards to Albania and Fyrom. No. It seems to me that attempting to impoverish another country is a very sad thing to do. And especially impoverishing a neighboring country strikes me as absolutely insane. The idea is to promote stability, friendship, cooperation. By helping a neighbor, one helps oneself. You might say that by stopping economic aids we wouldn’t be impoverishing these countries, since it is OUR money, after all, and they wouldn’t have had this money otherwise. However, the truth of the matter is that countries such as Albania and Fyrom depend on foreign aid for their very survival. Without that aid, there would only be further crime, poverty, and civil unrest in these countries. And inevitably, all these problems always affect the neighboring countries. Sometimes, the problems can even spill over the borders. An economically stable Albania and Fyrom helps to keep the e
