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…
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…
25 juni 2015 – In the New York Times Opinion Column, Paul Krugman, the Nobel Prize-winning Op-Ed columnist points out, that “the people who utterly failed to see the damage austerity would do — see the chart, which compares the projections in the 2010 standby agreement with reality — are now…
18 juni 2015 – In april 2015 heeft het Griekse parlement een onderzoekscommissie opgericht om de wettelijkheid van het memorandum van 2010 te onderzoeken, waarin de voorwaarden voor de leningen aan Griekenland werden vastgelegd. Een aantal internationale deskundigen hebben alle documenten onderzocht. Deze commissie staat onder leiding van de Belg Eric…
12 juni 2015 – James Galbraith, professor in government-business relations at the University of Texas, illustrates in this article the reasons why creditors’ demands would only prolong Greece’s crisis. He makes clear that reform is the only thing missing from creditor’s demands as “‘Reform in any true sense is a process that requires time, patience, planning,…
15 juni 2015 – Reiner Hoffman (President of the German Trade Union Confederation), Gustav Horn (scientific director of the Macroeconomic Policy Institute of the Hans Böckler Stiftung) and Gesine Schwan (political scientist), argue that the negotiations between the Greek government and its creditors can prove to be succesful if there…
5 juni 2015 – According to Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, the IMF’s original sin in Greece was to let Dominique Strauss-Kahn hijack the institution to save Europe’s banks and the euro when the crisis erupted. This doomed Greece to disaster. Read the complete article at: Telegraph.co.uk © By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, Telegraph.co.uk