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Legal Brief Prepared for the Special Committee of the Hellenic Parliament on the Audit of the Greek Debt (Debt Truth Committee)
13 July 2015 - by Olivier De Schutter, Margot E. Salomon
Abstract : This legal brief was prepared at the invitation of the Speaker of the Greek Parliament to inform the work of the Special Committee of the Hellenic Parliament on the Audit of the Greek Debt (Debt Truth Committee). It addresses key (...) -
Legal issues surrounding the MoU and Loan Agreements
6 July 2015 - by Truth Committee on the Greek Public Debt
Summary : Greece bears primary responsibility for violations exposed in Chapter 6, but such violations also constitute a breach of human rights obligations of the different Lenders since they imposed such measures to Greece. This is the case (...) -
Legal foundations for repudiation and suspension of Greek sovereign debt
30 June 2015 - by Truth Committee on the Greek Public Debt
The final chapter of the report of 18 June 2015, by the Truth Committee on Public Debt, shows strong legal arguments for suspending or repudiating Greek illegitimate, odious, illegal or unsustainable (...) -
Summary of the first day of the presentation of the preliminary report of the Debt Truth Commission
22 June 2015 - by Emilie Paumard
The first day of the Debt Truth Commission preliminary report was presented yesterday 17, June 2015 to the Greek parlement (the Vouli) in the presence of the Prime Minister, Alexis Tsipras and several other Greek ministers as well as other (...) -
Preliminary Report of the Truth Committee on Public Debt
18 June 2015 - by Truth Committee on the Greek Public Debt
The Truth Committee on Public Debt (Debt Truth Committee) was established on April 4, 2015, by a decision of the President of the Hellenic Parliament, Ms Zoe Konstantopoulou, who confided the Scientific Coordination of its work to Dr. Eric (...) -
Greek debt audit - Definition of terms
18 June 2015 - by Cephas Lumina
The mandate of the Truth Committee on Public Debt is to examine the nature and extent of the country’s public debt, as well as the processes relating to the contracting and/or accumulation of the debt and the impact of the cuts or changes in the (...) -
Executive Summary of the report from the Debt Truth Committee
17 June 2015 - by Truth Committee on the Greek Public Debt
In June 2015 Greece stands at a crossroad of choosing between furthering the failed macroeconomic adjustment programmes imposed by the creditors or making a real change to break the chains of debt. Five years since the economic adjustment (...) -
Hellenic Parliament’s Debt Truth Committee: Presentation of the Preliminary Findings
16 June 2015 - by Truth Committee on the Greek Public Debt
The Hellenic Parliament’s Debt Truth Committee will announce on 17-18 June 2015 the preliminary findings of its works, examining the legality and sustainability of the Greek public debt. The Committee’s works will begin on Wednesday, 17 June (...) -
“We are auditing Greece”
16 June 2015 - by PACD
What is exactly happening with Greece, what lies behind the negotiations and how important is debt and what are the consequences for the Greek people? The PACD has launched a new monographic blog www.AuditamosGrecia.org in order to monitor (...) -
Restructuration, Audit, Suspension and Abolition of the debt
8 June 2015 - by Eric Toussaint, Maud Bailly
Eric Toussaint is a historian and political scientist who holds a Ph.D. from the universities of Paris VIII and Liège. He is the Spokesman for CADTM International (www.cadtm.org) where he has been active for many years in the struggles for the (...) -
Is Democracy compatible with the determination of EU institutions, whether in Greece or elsewhere?
3 June 2015 - by Eric Toussaint, Thierry Brun
Interview of Eric Toussaint for the French weekly paper Politis 1st June 2015 I. Do you see the negotiations between Greece and its creditors as involving Europe’s economic and political future, and why? The political dimension is essential. (...) -
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Zoi Konstantopoulou and Francisco Louca
1 June 2015 - by Francisco Louça, Zoe Konstantopoulou
The President of the Greek Parliament Zoi Konstantopoulou and Francisco Louca, founder of the portuguese Bloco de Esquerda, discussing the Truth Commission on the Greek Public Debt (Lisbon, 12/05/2015) With respect to (...) -
Auditing the Greek Debt: unity of place, time and action, as in classical drama
27 May 2015 - by Eric Toussaint
Some major features of the public debt that is claimed from Greece: Like a classical Drama, the Greek debt is characterized by unity of place (Greece within the EU), unity of time (2010-2015), unity of action (the policies enforced by the 2010 (...) -
Athens : Press Conference Committee for the Truth on the Public Debt
18 May 2015 - by Eric Toussaint, Maria Lucia Fattorelli, Yorgos Mitralias, Cephas Lumina, Zoe Konstantopoulou
Participants: Ms. Zoe Konstantopoulou, President of the Greek Parliament and President of the Committee for the Truth on the Public Debt; Mr. Éric Toussaint, Scientific Coordinator of the Committee and head of the group of international experts, (...) -
Eric Toussaint’s statement after his dialogue with Dimitris Stratoulis, Greek minister of pensions
16 May 2015 - by Eric Toussaint
After a visit on Friday 15th May 2015 to the Greek Ministry of pensions and a meeting with the Minister Stratoulis, here is my statement. It is clear that there is a direct relation between the conditions imposed by the Troika and the increase (...) -
Committee for the Truth on the Greek Debt: A successful 2nd plenary session in Athens 4 to 7 May 2015
13 May 2015 - by Raphael Goncalves Alves
After a first session in April most members met again for four days in order to account for their respective investigations, plan and organize what has to be done for the intermediary report to be handed in by mid-June. Sessions took place (...) -
What can we learn from Greece?
12 May 2015 - by Sushovan Dhar
The contemporary Greek tragedy of high sovereign indebtedness and the ensuant “austerity” measures have very few historical parallels. Ever since the debt crisis erupted, the infamous troika --- the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the European (...) -
Appeal to support the Resisting Greek people and its truth Commission on Public Debt
To the people of Europe and the whole world! To all the men and women who reject the politics of austerity and are not willing to pay a public debt which is strangling us and which was agreed to behind our backs and against our interests. We (...) -
Eric Toussaint: The audit will reveal what really happened in Greece the past years
29 April 2015 - by Eric Toussaint, Kostas Papagiannis
Eric Toussaint, a world renowned specialist on the subject of illegitimate and odious debt write-off, will be in charge of the scientific coordination of the international team of specialists participating in the Audit Committee of the Public (...) -
Should Greece Pay Back Its Debt?
24 April 2015 - by Ozlem Onaran
Financial speculators are nervously asking whether Greece will pay its debt or default. Political leaders from Europe to the US and the IMF are telling the Greek government to leave aside its democratic mandate and accept further austerity as a (...) -
Greece: Speech by Eric Toussaint, scientific coordinator of the Debt Truth Committee, at the press conference, Hellenic parliament on 7th April 2015
19 April 2015 - by Eric Toussaint
I must express to the highest instances of this country, starting with the President of the Greek Parliament, the immense satisfaction felt by all the representatives and foreign experts who have gathered here in Athens, to take part in the (...) -
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Speech by the President of the Hellenic Parliament Zoe Konstantopoulou at the inaugural session of the Truth Commission on Public Debt
18 April 2015 - by Zoe Konstantopoulou
Ladies and Gentlemen, thank you for being here today at an event that is of historic importance and marks the beginning of the repayment of a true debt: to reveal the truth and be accountable to the Greek people and society about how the debt (...) -
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Greece’s Parliament TV Spots : Check it ! Erase it !
14 April 2015 - by Truth Committee on the Greek Public Debt
After forming a ‘truth’ committee to investigate Greece’s bailout agreements with its lenders and perform a public debt audit, parliament head Zoi Konstantopoulou released two videos saying ‘Check it, Erase it,’ referring to the country’s accumulated (...) -
In Greece, New Commission Will Audit All National Debt
6 April 2015 - by Eric Toussaint, Michael Nevradakis
In this interview, Eric Toussaint, a founder of the Committee for the Abolition of Third-World Debt, discusses a new commission to audit Greece’s public debt to determine which parts are illegal, illegitimate, unsustainable or odious. Michael (...) -
Interview with Eric Toussaint for Dialogos Radio
6 April 2015 - by Eric Toussaint, Michael Nevradakis
Interview with Eric Toussaint discussing the establishment of a committee to audit Greece’s public debt, which he will be a part of.
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