Plans for an emergency tax on the Greek shipping sector to boost revenue in light of the crisis have remained on the shelf with the government apparently unwilling to displease…
The government’s pre-election promises hide the harsh measures that are still to come; A solidarity tax on Greek ship-owners is deferred indefinitely; the Finance Ministry presents a plan to restart…
In the cafes and tavernas around its base Greeks will argue about many things: politics, football and more politics. But there is one thing that all will agree on: the…
Have you heard the one about Greece’s Eurostat-approved 2013 primary surplus? Well, you should not believe it. Here is why:
When the New York Police Department invited Twitter users to share pictures of themselves posing with police officers under the hashtag #myNYPD, it could be said that they were asking…
Eurostat verifies the Greek primary budgets surplus; yet despite government and troika optimism the surplus appears to be the result of ‘creative accounting’; the EC defers debt discussions until the…
In an interview with Vasiliki Siouti, Costas Lapavitsas, professor of economics at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) of London and an early evangelist in favour of a…
Exactly four years ago today, the 23rd of April, Prime Minister George Papandreou the Younger announced to the world that Greece, frozen out of the international debt markets, would be…
A move by Electroniki Athinon to ask its employees to donate a month’s wages in order to ‘contribute to the economic revival’ of the company has provoked outrage, and highlights…