A new study entitled “Greece: Solidarity and Adjustment in Times of Crisis,” by Tassos Giannitsis and Stavros Zografakis,with the support of the Macroeconomic Policy Institute in Düsseldorf concluded that the…
In a recent letter to Chancellor Merkel and other key European figures, Greek PM set out factors that were "undermining the spirit of the agreements" that have been reached, and…
A reminder of why the Greeks and Germans are lashed together in a common currency called the euro sits in a 19th century Athens mansion built by a German for…
Marxist geographer David Harvey recently spoke with il manifesto about the contradictions inherent in capitalism, the possibilities for its undoing and where Syriza and Podemos fit within its opposition.
The EU has pledged €2bn (£1.45bn; $2.15bn) to ease what it calls Greece΄s "humanitarian crisis" – echoing a term used by Greece to describe the results of its financial crisis.
The European sovereign debt crisis has provoked much talk about debt and morality. There are those who acknowledge that Greece΄s debt burden, for one, is unsustainable and impossible to repay,…
Any sensible person can see how a certain video[1] has become part of something beyond a gesture. It has sparked off a kerfuffle reflecting the manner in which the 2008…
The rift between Greece and the rest of the eurozone is deep and won’t be easily bridged
Following a ΄mini-summit΄ Thursday evening between the Greek PM Tsipras, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President Francois Hollande and leaders of the EU institutions, Greece has agreed to produce a…
Greek finance minister΄s gesture was taken out of context but the finger was pointed in the right direction. In the recent outcry, Varoufakis΄s gesture (or a figure of speech) and…