2014 cont. when european central bank president mario draghi (a former goldman sachs vice chairman and managing director) announced on august 1, 2012 that the ecb would do whatever it takes to preserve the euro as a stable currency, german bundesbank president jens weidmann objected, pointing out that the ecbs powers are limited by statute. nevertheless, draghi forged ahead, promising that the ecb would make unlimited purchases of government bonds of indebted eu members  provided they put their countries under the control of executors from the troika  the eu commission, ecb and imf. this is the same troika that devastated the citizens of cyprus last year, raiding their bank accounts to pay off the bonds that socialist politicians and goldman sachs had saddled them with. but soros, whose many human rights fronts extol the rule of law, accountability, and transparency, says that the lawless and unaccountable troika does not have enough power! it must be complemented by an efa, says he, which should exercise power over all fiscal matters.  the imfs managing director christine lagarde and eu commission president jos manuel barroso (a former maoist communist) have already lined up a multi-billion package for ukraine. however, many ukrainians, all across the political spectrum, are leery of coming under the troikas control, and rightfully so. they do not want to trade the corruption and oppression of yanukovychs pro-kremlin regime for another dictated by the eu and imf. as we pointed out recently, even the poll commissioned by the u.s. state department found that only 37 percent of ukrainians favored joining the eu.
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