In case you missed it here is a recount of “who is who”:
- “Russia is not Greece.” Vladimir Putin, Russian Prime Minister, March 2010.
- “France is not Greece.” Christian Lagarde, director of the International Monetary Fund, May 2010.
- “Portugal is not Greece, and Spain is not Greece.” Jean-Claude Trichet, President of the European Central Bank, May 2010.
- “Spain is not Greece. But Greece is where it is thanks to a policy like Zapatero’s policy in Spain.” Mariano Rajoy, leader of the Spanish opposition, May 2010.
- “Hungary is not in the same situation as Greece.” Olli Rehn, EU Commissioner for Economic and Monetary Affairs, June 2010.
- “Hungary is quite obviously not Greece.” Gyorgy Matolcsy, Hungarian Finance Minister, June 2010.
- “Spain is neither Ireland nor Portugal.” Elena Salgado, Spanish Minister of Finance, November 2010.
- “Ireland is neither Spain nor Portugal.” Angel Gurria, OECD Secretary-General, November 2010.
- “Ireland is not Greece.” Angela Merkel, German Chancellor, November 2010.
- “Greece is not Ireland.” Giorgos Papakonstantinou, Greek Minister of Finance, November 2010.
- “Ireland is not in Greek territory.” Brian Lenihan, Irish Minister of Finance, November 2010.
- “Ireland is not Greece.” Michael Noonan, Irish Minister of Finance, June 2011.
- “France is not Greece and it’s not Italy either.” Barry Eichengreen, American economist, August 2011.
- “Italy is not Greece.” Rainer Bruederle, Germany’s FDP parliamentary party leader, August 2011.
- “Italy is not Greece.” Silvio Berlusconi, Italian Prime Minister, October 2011.
- “Austria is not Greece.” Karlheinz Kopf, parliamentary faction leader of Austria’s People’s Party, November 2011.
- “Italy is not Greece.” Christian Lindner, FDP general secretary, November 2011.
- “Portugal is not Greece, and it will not turn into Greece.” Antonio Saraiva, head of the Confederation of Portuguese Industry, February 2012.
- “Spain is not Greece.” Richard Youngs, head of the Madrid-based think tank FRIDE, May 2012.
- “Portugal is not Greece.” Pedro Passos Coelho, Portuguese Prime Minister, June 2012.
- “Italy is not Spain.” Ed Parker, senior director of Fitch Ratings Agency, June 2012.
- “Greece is not Argentina.” Yiannis Stournaras, Greek Minister of Competition, July 2012.
- “Germany is not Zimbabwe.” Paul Casson, fund manager from Henderson Global Investors, June 2012.
- “Spain is not Uganda.” Mariano Rajoy, Spanish Prime Minister, June 2012.
- “Uganda does not want to be Spain.” Asuman Kiyingi, Foreign Minister of Uganda, June 2012.
- “Spain is not Greece.” Elena Salgado, Spanish finance minister, February 2010.
- “Portugal is not Greece.” The Economist, April 2010.
- “Greece is not Ireland.” George Papaconstantinou, Greek finance minister, November, 2010.
- “Ireland is not in ‘Greek Territory.’” Brian Lenihan, Irish finance minister, November 2010.
- “Neither Spain nor Portugal is Ireland.” Angel Gurria, OECD secretary-general, November, 2010.
- “Italy is not Spain.” Ed Parker, Fitch director, June 2012.

