21 juni 2016 – By the time the refugee tide hit Athens last summer, five years of financial crisis had already hollowed out its ancient centre. The marble pavements had been chipped and broken to provide ammunition against the riot-police, scorch marks from flaming Molotov cocktails marked the tarmac, and boarded-up stores…
24 mei 2016 – No violence reported as Greek authorities order 8,500 residents of Europe’s largest informal refugee camp to leave Greek police have begun to clear Europe’s largest informal refugee camp, where thousands of people have been stranded for months. About 400 riot police entered the camp at dawn on Tuesday…
21 mei 2016 – Een Syrische vluchteling in Griekenland heeft met succes beroep aangetekend tegen de afwijzing van zijn asielaanvraag. De zaak kan grote gevolgen hebben voor het vluchtelingenakkoord tussen Turkije en de Europese Unie. De Syriër zou terug naar Turkije worden gestuurd, maar dat is voorlopig van de baan. Een…
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…
3 april 2016 – The Greek government is bracing itself for violence ahead of the European Union implementing a landmark deal that, from Monday, will see Syrian refugees and migrants being deported back to Turkey en masse. Rioting and rebellion by thousands of entrapped refugees across Greece has triggered mounting fears in…
30 maart 2016 – Asieladvocaat Wil Eikelboom, van het Amsterdamse mensenrechtenkantoor Prakken d’Oliveira, stapte een paar dagen na het gesloten EU-vluchtelingenakkoord met Turkije op het vliegtuig naar Lesbos. Hij wilde met eigen ogen zien hoe het er in de kampen aan toe ging, want, zo verklaarde hij deze week bij…
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…
10 december 2015 – In Terzake, de Vlaamse actualiteitenrubriek van de VRT, uitgezonden op Canvas, spreekt Peter Bouckaert over de vluchtelingencrisis en de situatie in Griekenland. Bouckaert volgt als hoofd noodoperatie van de internationale hulporganisatie Human Rights Watch al maandenlang de vluchtelingen tijdens hun tocht naar Europa. Wie zijn de vluchtelingen en wat is hun verhaal?…
20 november 2015 – Closed borders across Europe could leave many people stranded in Greece. Dimitris Christopoulos, vice president of the International Federation for Human Rights, spoke to HuffPost Greece about how the Paris attacks may impact Greece’s refugee crisis and how the Greek government has handled the situation thus far.…
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…
20 juli 2015 – Voormalige minister van Financiën Yanis Varoufakis geeft in dit artikel commentaar op de dramatische uitkomst van de laatste Eurotop en het privatiseringsplan dat Griekenland van zijn schuldeisers moet uitvoeren. Hij noemt de “Griekse Treuhand alsnog een wangedrocht en stigma op het Europese geweten. En, erger nog, het is…
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…
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.…
13 juli 2015 – Paul Krugman argues in the New York Times that: “this Eurogroup list of demands is madness. The trending hashtag ThisIsACoup is exactly right. This goes beyond harsh into pure vindictiveness, complete destruction of national sovereignty, and no hope of relief. It is, presumably, meant to be an offer Greece can’t…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
6 juli 2015 – by George Arnett, Ami Sedghi, Achilleas Galatsidas and Sean Clarke, The Guardian. Referendum results in full. Voters were asked: ‘whether to accept the outline of the agreement submitted by the European Union, the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund at the Eurogroup of 25/06/15′. (That…
3 juli 2015 – Jonathan Freedland is a British journalist, who writes a weekly column for he Guardian. He is also a regular contributor to the New York Times and the New York Review of Books, and presents BBC Radio 4’s contemporary history series, The Long View. Freedland argues: “The deficit fetishists of Brussels…
3 juli 2015 – Saskia Sassen is a Dutch-American sociologist noted for her analyses of globalization and international human migration. She is Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology at Columbia University, and Chairs The Committee on Global Thought. Sassen coined the term global city. In this article Sassen addresses the reader directly: “You, dear reader, decide if…