IMF has made €2.5 billion profit out of Greece loans
08/04/2015
Ahead of the payment of €462 million by Greece to the IMF on Thursday 9 April, figures released by the Jubilee Debt Campaign show that the IMF has made €2.5…
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As Greece Battles a Debt Crisis, Its Banks Issue More Short-Term Debt
08/04/2015
A strange thing is happening as Greece struggles to avert bankruptcy: Its troubled banks are loading up on more debt.
From war reparations to ‘profligate Greeks’: why political rhetoric is obscuring the real issues in Greece
08/04/2015
The underlying problem between Greece and the EU institutions is a clash of views over what kind of structural reforms Greece must follow to exit the crisis. To understand the…
What does it mean to be human?
08/04/2015
Like goldfish in a bowl totally ignorant of “water,” we often fail to notice how colonized our consciousness has become by capitalism and how the resulting ideology permeates our life.
The Real Thing: An Anti-austerity European Government
08/04/2015
What is at stake in Greece goes very far beyond merely financial questions. It goes beyond the question of the fate of a small and historically very badly governed country…
Greek activists welcome much needed breathing space
07/04/2015
Many Greeks have low expectations of SYRIZA, but with the coalition in power a space has opened up that allows for the creation of an alternative economy.
Greece puts a figure on World War Two reparation claims from Germany
07/04/2015
Greece΄s deputy finance minister said on Monday Germany owes Greece nearly 279 billion euros ($305.17 billion) in reparations for the Nazi occupation of the country.
European banking supervisor should limit banks’ exposure to all eurozone governments, not just Greece
07/04/2015
The ECB’s quantitative easing programme provides the right conditions for introducing exposure limits
In Greece, Getting By On The Brink Of A Financial Meltdown
06/04/2015
This week on For The Record, we spoke with three Greeks about how they are navigating the financial crisis and how they΄re re-calibrated their expectations as a result.
Chantal Mouffe: ΄The crisis of representative democracy and the need for a left-wing populism΄
06/04/2015
As commentators draw continuities from the work of theorists Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe to the left populism of Syriza and Podemos we share this video of Mouffe's recent keynote speech at the international methodological workshop “Analyzing Populist Discourse” at Aristotle……