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What austerity looks like inside Greece
Metropolitan is part of a web of citizen-led assemblies that operate collectively run clinics, factories, soup kitchens, and produce markets that have popped up across the country
Παρέμβαση ευρωβουλευτών Ποταμιού: Η υπόθεση φοροαποφυγής της Eldorado Gold στην Ευρωπαϊκή Επιτροπή
Οι ευρωβουλευτές του Ποταμιού, Γιώργος Γραμματικάκης και Μίλτος Κύρκος, κατέθεσαν γραπτή ερώτηση προς την Ευρωπαϊκή Επιτροπή σχετικά με τη διευκόλυνση φοροαποφυγής των πολυεθνικών εταιριών από ορισμένα Κράτη Μέλη της Ευρωπαϊκής…
Ptolemaida V: a new economic disaster in the making?
A new WWF report claims that that there is no dilemma in choosing between the planned lignite plant Ptolemaida V and hybrid RES and pumped hydro energy storage systems (PHES).…
Greece΄s cash-flow crisis
Nobody seems to know for sure how broke the country is. In an interview at the weekend, eurozone commissioner Valdis Dombrovskis would go no further than to concede that "the…
Greek PM says wants ΄honest compromise΄ but not at any cost
Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras on Monday appealed for an "honest compromise" with lenders but warned Greece would not agree to an "unconditional" one, after its biggest creditor demanded it do…
“Extractivism”, the Greek way
Oil in the Aegean Sea, gold in Chalkidiki. For years we didn΄t know where this mineral wealth was hiding. The question is how this underground wealth discovery is related with…
Eva Joly on Dijsselbloem and his role in Eldorado’s tax avoidance: “To call this hypocrisy is to put it mildly”
Vice-president of the EU Parliament΄s TAXE Committee, in a comment to ThePressProject, doesn΄t mince words: The Netherlands is one of the biggest corporate tax dodging havens…and their finance minister as…
Explainer: The case of the Chalkidiki goldmine
A November 2014 special report by Berlin’s daily Tagesspiegel began as follows: “Since the beginning of the Eurozone crisis, countries have to carry out extensive privatisations in return for the…
From Luxleaks to Dutchleaks
As well as Luxembourg, the Netherlands also offers large corporations the kind of tax rulings that Luxembourg has in place, which led to the LuxLeaks revelations. Eldorado Gold’s tax conduit…