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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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4 April 2015: a landmark in the search for the truth about the Greek debt

6 April 2015 - by Eric Toussaint

For the first time in Europe a committee for an audit of the debt (with citizens’ participation) was set up under the auspices of a parliament. On Saturday 4 April the president of the Hellenic parliament Zoe Konstantopoulou opened the first (...)
IMF in Greece: a “slush fund” for “its political masters”

1 April 2015 - by Bretton Woods Project

In February, Greece agreed a four-month extension to its loan from the European Central Bank (ECB) and European Commission (EC), which along with the IMF comprise the Troika of lenders to eurozone states since 2010. The loan is subject to a (...)
Building another Europe – Now is the Time to Act !

31 March 2015 - by Collectif

The Convergence assembly gathered in the context of the World Social Forum in Tunis on 28 March 2015 conveys its solidarity with the Greek people fighting against austerity, for democracy, social change and another Europe. The Assembly is (...)
The Incorruptible at the Vouli: a major figure of SYRIZA

27 March 2015 - by Adéa Guillot

It is far into the night in Athens, on Wednesday 4 March 2015. All is quiet in the deserted corridors of the Vouli, the Greek Parliament, except in the lobby of Zoe Konstantopoulou’s office. It is well past 11 p.m., yet several people are still (...)
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Why should the Greek debt be audited?

21 March 2015 - by Eric Toussaint

The President of the Greek Parliament, Zoe Konstantopoulou, has set up a commission to audit the Greek debt and has asked me to play an active part in it. I have accepted to assume the scientific coordination. This commission was launched on (...)
Greece

The Speaker of the Greek parliament launches a debt audit commission

20 March 2015 - by CADTM

The Speaker of the Greek parliament, Zoé Konstantopoulou, has announced during a press conference on 17 March 2015 the creation of a commission to audit the Greek debt. The scientific coordination of the commission will be led by Eric Toussaint, (...)
The workers and the Solidarity Assembly of VIOME call for international solidarity

17 March 2015 - by VIOME

The workers of VIOME in Thessaloniki, Greece, have stood up against unemployment and poverty by carrying through a long struggle to self-manage the occupied factory, in very adverse conditions. For two years now, they have been producing and (...)
Socrates and the Troika

9 March 2015 - by Eric Toussaint

In The Republic Plato [1] tells of a discussion between Socrates [2], and condemned to death and executed in 399B.C.) and a rich Athenian. Socrates pulls apart an argument of the rich Athenian, who insisted that debts should always be repaid. He (...)
Syriza on a Tightrope

9 March 2015 - by Stathis Kouvelakis

After Greece reached an agreement with the other Eurogroup members on February 20, German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble remarked in his inimitable style: “The Greeks certainly will have a difficult time explaining the deal to their voters.” (...)
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Understanding Greek Debt

24 February 2015 - by Eric Toussaint, Chris Spannos

Pressure is mounting as the February 28th deadline for Greece’s current bailout agreement approaches. Host Chris Spannos interviews Eric Toussaint, spokesman for the Committee to End Third World Debt. Also on the show, BBC’s Asylum & Julian (...)
Syriza and Podemos: the way towards power for the People?

18 February 2015 - by Eric Toussaint

Experience proves that left-wing movements can come to be in government, but nevertheless do not hold power. Democracy, in other words the exercise of power by the People and for the People, requires much more. The problem is currently being (...)
Syriza: “A grain of sand in the machinery”

11 February 2015 - by Eric Toussaint, Benito Pérez

Eric Toussaint interviewed par Benito Perez (of the daily Le Courrier, Geneva) Eric Toussaint • Specialist in public debt, former economic adviser of progressive South American governments, analyses Syriza’s first days at the head of the Greek (...)
Three cheers for the Greeks who have rejected austerity

6 February 2015 - by CADTM

The CADTM welcomes the outcome of the Greek election and the first decisions made by the new Greek government. Relying as it does on popular support, the coalition government led by SYRIZA and sworn in on 27 January 2015 has already decided on a (...)
Greece after the election – not a threat but an opportunity for Europe

6 February 2015 - by Collectif

The political landslide in Greece is an opportunity, not only for that crisis-ridden country but also for a fundamental reassessment and revision of EU economic and social policy. We highlight once again the criticism already voiced on many (...)
Greece needs a real cancellation of a big part of its debt

2 February 2015 - by Eric Toussaint, Christina Vasilaki

Eric Toussaint interviewed by Christina Vasilaki of SYRIZA’s radio stoKokkino Christina Vasilaki : Which is the EU Regulation that Syriza’s demand for an audit of debt could be based on? Eric Toussaint : In May 2013 the European Parliament (...)
The lessons that can be drawn from the failure of the Greek 2012 restructuring

2 February 2015 - by Eric Toussaint, Maud Bailly

Éric Toussaint interviewed by Maud Bailly In 2012, the Troika did a restructuring of the Greek debt: what went wrong? The context was as follows: from early 2010 Greece was subjected to speculative attacks by the financial markets that (...)
Greece fights back

2 February 2015 - by Sushovan Dhar

With the build-up of the sovereign debt crisis in Europe, the political pundits and financial honchos, not to mention the ruling elites, preached to us about the virtues of “austerity.” Wolfgang Schäuble, the German finance minister, was audacious (...)
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The Troika impose to Greece policies that are destroying social rights

27 January 2015 - by Eric Toussaint

“An audit committee of the Greek debt could show that 80% of the debt required by the troika is illegal,” said Mr. Toussaint on an interview with Christina Vasilaki, stoKokkino`s correspondent in Brussels. Éric Toussaint, Senior Lecturer at the (...)
What if SYRIZA took the EU at its word and audited Greek debt?

14 January 2015 - by Eric Toussaint

Since the announcement that elections will be held in Greece on 25 January 2015, the prospect that they be won by SYRIZA has been presented as a menace to international public opinion and in particular, as a threat to the Eurozone. Yet those who (...)
With the Greek people, for a change in Europe

12 January 2015 - by Por el Cambio en Grecia

The upcoming Greek elections can represent a turning point in the European scenario. Greece has become a political and economic testing ground of the European elites, spreading misery and weariness throughout all the South of Europe as a (...)
Change Greece - change Europe - changer4all!

Syriza’s potential victory in the forthcoming elections in Greece is of the utmost importance for all those who want Europe to change course. Such a victory would be an expression of the demand for dignity and justice: for hope. The threats and (...)
What would a SYRIZA victory mean for the movements?

5 January 2015 - by Markos Vogiatzoglou

The upcoming elections in Greece may bring the left to power. Can SYRIZA win? What happens next? And what would a SYRIZA victory mean for the movements? The forthcoming elections of January 25 in Greece bring the possibility of a left-wing (...)
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Hands off Greece, fighting back and resisting

1 January 2015 - by CADTM Europe

Even before the dissolution of the Greek parliament and the ensuing electoral campaign, International and European powers have launched a campaign of lies and threats aimed at cowering the Greek electorate away from voting for SYRIZA (United (...)