On Wednesday April 1st, SOMO, the Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations officially released their report, "Fool΄s Gold", in Athens, in partnership with The Press Project, Hellenic Mining Watch, MiningWatch…
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…
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…
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…
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…
How one of the countries richest in mineral resources in the world was pillaged by mining companies
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…
Nine companies associated with Greece were among the LuxLeaks multinationals. But, in a blatant effort to control information, the Greek media, including English language ones, remained silent in reminiscence of…
Aikaterini Savvaidou, the General Secretary for Public Revenue, was until June 2014 a senior ranking official at PwC at a time when it was setting up tax avoidance schemes for…