Flip Lindo is socioloog en antropoloog, en werkte tot zijn pensionering in 2013 als hoofdonderzoeker aan de Universiteit van Amsterdam (Faculteit voor Maatschappij- en Gedragswetenschappen). Hij heeft etnografisch onderzoek gedaan in Noord Griekenland, en spreekt Nieuwgrieks. Hij is medeorganisator van de winter school Migration in the Margins of Europe die…
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…
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…
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…
13 juli 2015 – By Harry Lambert from the New Statesman, a British political and cultural magazine. In his first interview since resigning, Greece’s former Finance Minister says the Eurogroup is “completely and utterly” controlled by Germany, Greece was “set up” and last week’s referendum was wasted. Read here the full transcript of…
Professor dr. Heiner Flassbeck, is een Duits econoom, voormalig staatssecretaris voor financiën in de regering Schröder, en sinds 2003 tot 2012 Chief of Macroeconomics and Development bij de UNCTAD van de VN. Flassbeck werd een bekend tegenstander van het huidige Europees economisch beleid, waarover hij heel wat publiceerde, waaronder Zehn Mythen der Krise (2012) en zeer recent Nur…
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…
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…
9 juli 2015 – by Achilleas Galatsidas and George Arnett / The Guardian. “The Greek referendum has been presented as a split between young and old. This interactive map shows how, in the capital at least, it also flagged up divisions between the richest and poorest in society. Wealthy suburbs in the…
4 juli 2015 – Nicholas Vrousalis is assistant professor in Political Philosophy at Leiden University. He argues that ” The referendum announced by the Greek government on Sunday is its last-ditch attempt to get some leverage against the latest round of blackmail by the troika of the European Commission, the ECB and the IMF. Whatever…
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…
Juli 2015 – Dimitris Vardoulakis is the chair of Philosophy of the University of Western Sydney. His research interests range from the relation between literature and philosophy to theories of power and sovereignty. Vardoulakis is commenting on the referendum with particular emphasis on the distinction between currency administration and political decision making in the EU. He argues…
29 juni 2015 – Joseph Stiglitz, university professor at Columbia University and recipient of the 2001 Nobel Memorial Prize in economics, clarifies his choice as far as the referendum of 5 July is concerned: “It is hard to advise Greeks how to vote on 5 July. Neither alternative – approval or rejection of…
28 juni 2015 – Philippe Legrain, former economic advisor to the president of the European Commission (2011 to 2014) and visiting senior fellow at the London School of Economics’ European Institute, is commenting on the referendum to be held on 5 July: “Greece’s creditors hope that by unleashing chaos, they can bring…
28 juni 2015 – As Greece prepares for a monumental decision, there is only one certainty: the European Ideal has been irrevocably damaged. Alex Andreou expresses the feelings of many Greeks who live in Europe and felt until now being, first of all, European citizens. Read the whole article at: Byline.com
29 juni 2015 – Victoria Kupsch, Jonathan Buhl, Daphne Büllesbach, Nora Rathje, and Benjamin Zeeb argue in this article that “Europe is in dire need of radical change in social, financial and energy policies and more.” The great European project, once a positive model for voluntary and meaningful cooperation, has devolved into…