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Money on the side, and lots of it for Guy Verhofstadt
23/05/2014
Guy Verhofstadt’s membership of the board of the multi-billion Belgian investment firm Sofina is not his only extra-parliamentary source of income. Further investigation reveals that the conservative MEP and aspiring…
Press review May 23: The final push
23/05/2014
Party leaders make their final cases for the European elections; Samaras warns of the consequences of a potential ‘accident’ while Tsipras says voters must choose between SYRIZA or the Memorandum;…
The tigers that became PIGS and the new plan for growth
22/05/2014
The government has presented its growth plan “Greece 2021”. It is growth that supposedly will allow us to emerge from the crisis and permit us to pay off the debt.…
Another shady Greek banking deal: the Pireus-MIG deal
22/05/2014
Yanis Varoufakis and Klaus Kastner exchange notes on the ΄sordid relationship΄ between the MIG group and the Bank of Piraeus and the hundreds of millions of euros of loans between…
Cleaning women return to protesting outside Finance Ministry
22/05/2014
The state-employed cleaning women of the Finance Ministry facing dismissal have launched another sit in outside the ministry building in the center of Athens after a court decision ruling that…
Press Review May 22nd: Rejecting Golden Dawn while courting their voters
22/05/2014
Alexis Tsipras says not all Golden Dawn voters are neo-nazis; New Democracy and PASOK accuse the opposition leader of ‘flirting’ with the neo-nazi party, others accuse the government of double…
Who is the Guy representing you?
22/05/2014
Guy Verhofstadt, candidate for EU Commission president, sits on the board of a multinational looking to gain from the privatization of water utilities in Greece. It is widely known that…
What (not) to expect, when you’re expecting in crisis-hit Greece
21/05/2014
The denial of even basic healthcare services to uninsured pregnant women and children in crisis-hit Greece has been once again highlighted by Medecins du Monde. In a report focusing on…