Just 15 months after it was founded, Podemos now leads the polls in Spain. Can this grassroots party win power – or is its bubble about to burst?
While the Eurogroup discusses its next steps following the decision to extend financial assistance to Greece by up to four months, there are indications that left-wing Syriza’s win in January…
Greece expects to raise at least $545 million from sale
Official SOMO report launch and panel discussion: 1 April, 12.00 at the Amphitheatre of 9,84 Athens Municipal Radio Station, Pireos Street 100, Gazi.
How one of the countries richest in mineral resources in the world was pillaged by mining companies
The Eurogroup,agreement of 20 February was the best possible option –or the least damaging– amongst the real options the Greek Government was presented with at that moment in time.
Athens, 30 March 2015 – A new report by the Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations (SOMO) reveals that while Greece endures harsh austerity measures imposed by the European Commission,…
Paraphrasing Baudelaire (or better Kevin Spacey in “Usual Suspects”) the greatest trick the multinationals ever pulled was convincing the world that tax-avoidance in legal. This is a lie. According even…
As the EU, ECB and IMF pore over Athens’s latest attempt to unlock financial aid, minister says country is prepared to go it alone ‘if things do not go well’
Greece is unlikely to exit the euro, either intentionally or accidentally. But it might be forced to introduce an alternative means of payment, in parallel to the euro, to pay…