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A Way to Rescue GreeceBy MICHAEL J. STRAUSS
Published: June 21, 2010








PARIS — Nations sometimes lease pieces of their territory to one another, and the resulting servitude typically benefits both parties: One gets the use of additional space while the other is compensated financially, politically, or in some other way.

Nearly every lease has been created at the behest of the country that sought to gain from the added territory, but there is no reason why such an arrangement can’t be instigated by the nation that would benefit from the compensation. Financially ailing Greece would do well to consider this as an alternative to some of the austerity measures that are provoking unrest and disruptions.

A German politician’s proposal that Greece sell an island or two was rightly dismissed. The implied transfer of sovereignty would have been problematic. Sales of territory sometimes occurred as countries took their present shape, but in the past 150 years this type of formal cession has given way to leases and similar arrangements that leave sovereignty intact


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