Former Greek finance minister pleads innocence in court
26/02/2015
George Papaconstantinou accused of removing relatives’ from list of suspected tax evaders and could face life sentence if convicted of crime against the state
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Reading The Greek Deal Correctly
25/02/2015
James K. Galbraith, who has worked closely with Varoufakis, offers his reading of this week΄s deal, challenging widespread reports in the media of a defeat for SYRIZA. "Alexis Tsipras stated…
Why Germany must swallow this Keynesian free lunch
25/02/2015
For the sake not just of Greece but the whole eurozone, Germany must overcome its historic horror of inflation and embrace fiscal expansion
Can a Bitcoin-style virtual currency solve the Greek financial crisis?
25/02/2015
Introducing a parallel currency would create money and delay Greece’s inevitable financial default. But the strategy will only work if investors believe the country won’t collapse
Greece΄s reform proposals
24/02/2015
The full text of the letter sent by Greek finance minister Varoufakis to the President of the Eurogroup, as reported by Reuters
SPECIAL REPORT: How the Troika and Piraeus Bank sealed Cyprus΄s fate
24/02/2015
The allegation: Cyprus received loans only on the condition that its banks sold their branches in Greece to a competitor in Athens at a fraction of their value. ThePressProject publishes…
Greece: a debt colony with a bit of ‘home rule’
24/02/2015
On Friday night the Greek finance minister, Yanis Varoufakis, averted total surrender to a German led demand for Greece to implement the total austerity programme of its former conservative government.…
I apologize to the Greek people for having assisted in this illusion
22/02/2015
Syriza’s most senior politician, the 94-year-old war hero and MEP Manolis Glezos, opposes his party’s decision to extend the Eurozone bailout program.
«Europe trashed democracy»
22/02/2015
At the press conference following Eurogroup yesterday, Paul Mason from Channel 4 asked Djisselbloem "What do you say to the Greek people, whose democracy you’ve just trashed". Mason, in an…
"Don΄t Touch My School": Tempers flare and schools go on strike over growing Islamisation in Turkish state education
21/02/2015
A sense of creeping Islamisation in Turkish schools has brought a number of concerned citizens together to protest against the government’s efforts to to increase the influence of Islam within…