B. Tersago: Extreme armoede bijna verdubbeld tijdens Griekse crisis

16 juni 2016 – Een paar dagen geleden publiceerde DiaNEOsis, een organisatie die onderzoek verricht en analyses uitvoert, een studie over de toename van de extreme armoede in Griekenland. Alweer een studie waar je niet vrolijk van wordt. Extreme armoede heb je overal, maar Griekenland heeft te maken met het fenomeen…

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P. De Grauwe: The ECB Grants Debt Relief To All Eurozone Nations Except Greece

19 maart 2016 – It looks like Greece may get some debt relief. There is as yet no certainty about this because some German politicians continue to conduct rear-guard battles to prevent it. What is certain, however, is that all Eurozone countries, with the exception of Greece, have been enjoying debt relief since…

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I Caratelli: The EU: to Be Or Not to Be? Greece and the Death Penalty

9 mei 2016 – The EU integration process used to have material, institutional and ideational foundations. Today only the material and institutional elements are left, that’s why the project is shaky. TheEU is facing all its crises in the same way: on the one hand, closing in itself to the rest…

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H. Smith: Angry Greeks foresee Grexit and drachma’s revival

– In his tiny shop in downtown Athens, Kostis Nakos sits behind a wooden counter hunched over his German calculator. The 71-year-old might have retired had he been able to make ends meets but that is now simply impossible. “All day I’ve been sitting here doing the maths,” he sighs,…

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I. Traynor/H. Smith: Greece hits back after EU’s Schengen threat

27 februari 2016 – Athens furious at being ‘scapegoated’ over refugee crisis and fears effect of being expelled from passport-free zone. Greece has hit back angrily after being given three months to avoid being suspended from Europe’s free-travel Schengen area because of its alleged failures to get a grip on the…

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N. Buxton: De toekomst van Europa volgens Y. Varoufakis

21 januari 2016 – Dit interview met Yanis Varoufakis door Nick Buxton, van het Transnational Institute,  is een voorpublicatie uit het rapport ‘State of Power. Democracy, sovereignty and resistance’. Het hele artikel in het Engels is hier te lezen: https://www.tni.org/files/publication-downloads/state-of-power-2016.pdf Yanis Varoufakis heeft op 9 februari in Berlijn de nieuwe ‘grensoverschrijdende,…

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E. Holodny: Here’s why the next Greek crisis will be much harder to resolve

9 februari 2016 – “Greece is not doing well. The country’s government is once again stuck in between appeasing its creditors, who are calling for more pension reform, and appeasing its constituents, who are protesting the fact that they’ll be worse of economically if/when these austerity measures come into fruition.” “When the refugee…

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D. Hollanders: Europe, Greece and the Dutch tax haven

6 januari 2016 – “While the Dutch minister of Finance and head of the Euro Group Jeroen Dijsselbloem routinely denounces Greece’s “unwillingness” to reform its tax system, the Canadian mining company Gold Eldorado avoids paying taxes in Greece via his own country. While the Netherlands lambasted Cypriot banks in 2013 for laundering…

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A. Avgoustidis: “De vergeten Griekse crisis”

http://www.nieuwgrieksestudies.nl/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/angelos-def.jpg 21 december 2015 – “De vergeten Griekse crisis” op Radio 1: een gesprek van Gilene Plag met historicus Angelos Avgoustidis, deskundige van de Mediacirkel. Terugluisteren: A. Avgoustidis/Radio1/vergetenGrieksecrisis.  

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J. Galbraith: Griekenland is een vazalstaatje

21 oktober 2015 – James Galbraith, adviseur van Yanis Varoufakis en beroemde econoom, probeert in een interview met Caroline de Gruyter uit te leggen waarom Y. Varoufakis faalde als minister van Financiën in het 1e kabinet Tsipras. Hij ontkracht bovendien een aantal mythes, zoals: “De pers schreef dat we niks deden, maar dat…

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J. Habermas: Merkel ‘gambling away’ Germany’s reputation

16 juli 2015 – Jürgen Habermas, one of the most important philosophers and sociologist of Germany,  has launched a withering attack on the German government. In an exclusive interview conducted by Philip Oltermann, The Guardian, describes the philosopher and sociologist Habermas the agreement as ‘toxic’. According to Habermas the German chancellor has effectively…

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C. Arnade: Blame the Banks

15 juli 2015 – Chris Arnade is a writer and photographer based in New York. He is a former Wall Street trader. Arnade is wondering: “Why is Greece chastised for reckless borrowing while the financial institutions that profited for years seem to get off scot-free?” In this article he criticizes the financial institutions…

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J. Ghosh: The failed project of Europe

15 juli 2015 – Jayati Ghosh   is professor of Economics at the Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, in New Delhi, India. She is specialised in globalization, international finance, employment patterns in developing countries and macroeconomic policy. In this article she delivers a scathing critique of the German role in the negotiations about a debt-deal for Greece.…

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F. Coppola: Dr. Schaeuble’s Master Plan

14 juli 2015 – According to Forbes writer Frances Coppola is “the deal that was finally agreed not sustainable. Everyone knows that. It was widely panned not only by left-sympathising economists, but also by Wall Street. It is questionable whether the Greek government will be able to get the first tranche of contentious requirements through…

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Y.Varoufakis: ‘Mijn eerste bedenkingen bij de uitkomst van de Eurotop’

4 juli 2015 – Voormalige minister van Financiën Yanis Varoufakis  geeft op zijn website commentaar bij de dramatische uitkomst van de laatste Eurotop. “Het resultaat van de recente Eurotop is inderdaad niets anders dan het culminatiepunt van een coup.” Hij verwerpt in zijn blog de deal in de sterkst mogelijke bewoordingen.…

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P. Mason: Greece wins euro debt deal – but democracy is the loser

13 juli 2015 – De bekende financieel commentator Paul Mason schrijft op zijn blog dat de Grieken dan wel de euro ‘debtdeal’ hebben gewonnen, maar dat de democratie verloren heeft: ‘Everybody on earth with a smartphone understands what happened to democracy last night’. Mason is auteur van verschillende boeken en ‘visiting professor’ aan de universiteit van Wolverhampton. In…

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R. Bregman: Hoe gaan Dijsselbloem & Co. de geschiedenis in?

30 juni 2015 – Rutger Bregman van De Correspondent vraagt zich af “hoe het toch mogelijk is dat de euro – die onze democratie had moeten versterken, de band tussen de Europese landen had moeten verstevigen en de welvaart van heel Europa had moeten vergroten – is ontaard in een…

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C. Salmon: Insider: “We underestimated the power of the creditors”

8 juli 2015 – A senior member of Greece’s negotiating team speaks to Christian Salmon for Mediapart. In this interview a senior advisor to the Greek government, who has been at the heart of the past five months of negotiations between Athens and its international creditors, reveals the details of what…

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“Greece can’t pay and should not pay” says the Truth Committee on Public Debt

The Truth Committee on Public Debt (Debt Truth Committee) was established on April 4, 2015, by a decision of the President of the Hellenic Parliament, Ms Zoe Konstantopoulou, who confided the Scientific Coordination of its work to Dr. Eric Toussaint and the cooperation of the Committee with the European Parliament…

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