Greece
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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 (...) -
Greek crisis: Human rights should not stop at doors of international institutions, says UN expert
3 June 2015 - by Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky
GENEVA (2 June 2015) – The United Nations Independent Expert on foreign debt and human rights, Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky, has urged European institutions, the International Monetary Fund and Greece to show courage and reach a deal on the Greek debt (...) -
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. (...) -
An initial analysis of the campaign of international support for the Greek Debt Truth Commission
3 June 2015 - by CADTM
In just over two weeks, the call for support for the work of the Greek Debt Auditing Commission, which was backed by over 300 public figures (including Noam Chomsky, Ken Loach and Susan George among others), has already collected more than 6,000 (...) -
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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 (...) -
Why it would be good for the IMF if Greece stopped repaying the IMF loans
27 May 2015 - by Bodo Ellmers
The creditor community has another shock and awe moment this week, as more and more influential actors argue that Greece should stop repaying the International Monetary Fund (IMF) loans and rather use scarce public resources to tackle its (...) -
Définition of illegitimate, illegal, odious and unsustainable debts
21 May 2015 - by Truth Committee on the Greek Public Debt
In order to define the odious, illegitimate, illegal and unsustainable parts of the Greek public debt, the Truth Committee on the Greek Public Debt set up by the President of the Hellenic Parliament will use the definitions that follow. These (...) -
Terms of reference for the Hellenic Parliament’s Truth Committee on Public Debt
21 May 2015 - by Truth Committee on the Greek Public Debt
Background Since May 2010, Greece has been implementing a macroeconomic adjustment programme as a condition for accessing loans from the International Monetary Fund, European Commission and European Central Bank to help it reduce its budget (...) -
Europe’s moment of Truth
19 May 2015 - by Tassos Koronakis
Tassos Koronakis, Secretary of the Central Committee of SYRIZA, calls for acts of social and political solidarity. From the organization of rallies and awareness campaigns across Europe, to institutional initiatives in local, regional and (...) -
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, (...) -
Interview with Maria Lucia Fattorelli on the Committee for the Truth on Greek Debt
17 May 2015 - by Maria Lucia Fattorelli, Vmedia.gr
Here is an interview with Maria Lucia Fattorelli by V.media on the work of the Committee for the Truth on the Greek debt Source: http://vmediagr.blogspot.gr/2015/05/video_14.html -
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 (...) -
Zoe Kostantopoulou’s speech, Rome, April 20th 2015
6 May 2015 - by Zoe Konstantopoulou
Here follows the speech given by Zoe Konstantopoulou at the Italian Parliament on April 20th 2015. Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fi7e7kfa3BU -
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 (...) -
IMF has made €2.5 billion profit out of Greece loans
8 April 2015 - by Jubilee Debt Campaign
Ahead of the payment of €462 million by Greece to the IMF on Thursday 9 April, figures released by the Jubilee Debt Campaign show that the IMF has made €2.5 billion of profit out of its loans to Greece since 2010. If Greece does repay the IMF in (...)
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