Categorie: Economie
N. Koulousios: The Greek debt crisis – Where do we stand and what’s next to come
However promising this may seem, once again we are witnessing a significant divide among Greece’s lenders on the issue of debt relief. …
A. Evans-Pritchard: IMF admits disastrous love affair
IMF admits disastrous love affair with the euro and apologises for the immolation of Greece 29 juli 2016 – The International Monetary Fund’s top staff misled their own board, made a series of calamitous misjudgments in Greece, became euphoric cheerleaders for the euro project, ignored warning signs of impending crisis, and…
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…
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…
I Caratelli: The EU: to Be Or Not to Be? Greece and the Death Penalty
H. Smith: Angry Greeks foresee Grexit and drachma’s revival
J. Assange: IMF Predicts Greek ‘Disaster’
2 april 2016 – Julian Assange publishes in WikiLeaks the records of a 19 March 2016 teleconference between the top two IMF officials in charge of managing the Greek debt crisis – Poul Thomsen, the head of the IMF’s European Department, and Delia Velkouleskou, the IMF Mission Chief for Greece. During this IMF…
P. Mason: IMF plots new “credit event” for Greece
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…
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,…
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…
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…
A. Avgoustidis: “De vergeten Griekse crisis”
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…
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…
R.Reich: How Goldman Sachs Profited From the Greek Debt Crisis
16.07.2015 The investment bank made millions by helping to hide the true extent of the debt, and in the process almost doubled it. Robert R. Reich, As a result, about 2 percent of Greece’s debt magically disappeared from its national accounts. Christoforos Sardelis, then head of Greece’s Public Debt Management…
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…
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.…
P. Krugman: Killing the European Project
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
“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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N. Koulousios: The Greek debt crisis – Where do we stand and what’s next to come
However promising this may seem, once again we are witnessing a significant divide among Greece’s lenders on the issue of debt relief. …
A. Evans-Pritchard: IMF admits disastrous love affair
IMF admits disastrous love affair with the euro and apologises for the immolation of Greece 29 juli 2016 – The International Monetary Fund’s top staff misled their own board, made a series of calamitous misjudgments in Greece, became euphoric cheerleaders for the euro project, ignored warning signs of impending crisis, and…
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…
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…
I Caratelli: The EU: to Be Or Not to Be? Greece and the Death Penalty
H. Smith: Angry Greeks foresee Grexit and drachma’s revival
J. Assange: IMF Predicts Greek ‘Disaster’
2 april 2016 – Julian Assange publishes in WikiLeaks the records of a 19 March 2016 teleconference between the top two IMF officials in charge of managing the Greek debt crisis – Poul Thomsen, the head of the IMF’s European Department, and Delia Velkouleskou, the IMF Mission Chief for Greece. During this IMF…
P. Mason: IMF plots new “credit event” for Greece
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…
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,…
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…
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…
A. Avgoustidis: “De vergeten Griekse crisis”
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…
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…
R.Reich: How Goldman Sachs Profited From the Greek Debt Crisis
16.07.2015 The investment bank made millions by helping to hide the true extent of the debt, and in the process almost doubled it. Robert R. Reich, As a result, about 2 percent of Greece’s debt magically disappeared from its national accounts. Christoforos Sardelis, then head of Greece’s Public Debt Management…
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…
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.…
P. Krugman: Killing the European Project
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
“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…