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The lone professor and the Euro Crisis – Dissident voices in Germany argue against Schäuble’s paradigm
By Thomas Jung & Nikos Koulousios Heiner Flassbeck is one of very few Economics professors with a dissenting voice on mainstream neoliberal economics in Europe….
The unfolding Greek debt (relief) crisis – Where do we stand and what’s next to come
The unfolding Greek debt (relief) crisis – Where do we stand and what’s next to come by Nikos Koulousios Once again we have reached…
German Calendar Protestonaut on austerity: “After all these years of deprivation it has emerged that austerity has not saved Greece”
To recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less. (Oscar Wilde)…
‘Austerity can not deliver prosperity’ – Barack Obama calls for ‘meaningful debt relief’ and ‘end of austerity’ for Greece
ATHENS — Americans have had seven days to come to terms with the election of Donald Trump as president. The Greeks have been dealing with their…
EU Court landmark decision opens door for legal cases by EU citizens against austerity measures
An important decision for the protection of human rights in times of bailouts and austerity. For the first time, the European Court of Justice explicitly…
Bailout program genocide… The human cost of austerity in Greece in shocking numbers
Bailout programs in Greece brought more deaths and less births in the last 5 years. One of the most insidious weapons of societal mass destruction……
Ken Loach: “The programme of austerity is killing us”
On Sunday May 22nd, the 69th Cannes Film Festival reached its end, with Ken Loach being the winner of the Palme d’Or prize. The…
Will anti-austerity Portugal become the new Greece?
Is Portugal about to take the same path as Greece? That’s the question being asked as the country’s new Socialist government was sworn in promising…
“Angela Merkel Is Destroying Europe” – A debate on how Merkel’s austerity is strangling European economies – Watch the video
They’re calling her the devil. Inflammatory words, no doubt, but Europe has every reason to be livid with the German Chancellor. Angela Merkel is causing…