How I learnt to live with a dog
I’ve always been a cat person. People who know me were very surprised to see me walking around the village accompanied by a dog on […]
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August 21 – Greece’s ‘independence day’?
After eight years of emergency bailout loans, Greece from last Tuesday has been deemed strong enough to stand on its own feet. The international bailout programme […]
A weekend of political turmoil over FYROM name
On Saturday Greek parliament rejected a censure motion, brought by the opposition over Prime Minister Tsipras’s deal aimed at solving a decades-old name dispute with […]
Convergence and some new European values
Just a few days ago, after a long stretch of abstinence, I watched some television There, as I was flicking through the channels catching glimpses […]
A “clean exit” for Greece and the future of Europe
Eurogroup president Mario Centeno has said that the target for Greece is to reach a staff-level agreement with creditors before the 24 May meeting of […]
Klaus Regling likens Greece to Germany after WWII (!)
European Stability Mechanism chief Klaus Regling, speaking at Foundation of the International Charlemagne Prize in Aachen, welcomed the “impressive adjustment efforts” from the Greek […]
Austerity by design: The Boston Review looks at ‘the cost of negotiations’ through Adults in The Room
Extracts from the Boston Review article — In the spring of 2015, a series of debt negotiations briefly claimed a share of the world’s attention […]
Will the new Athens – EU relationship benefit the people of Greece?
A View from Apokoronas — In a TV interview just before Christmas, the European Commission’s chief spokesman and former New Democracy MEP Margaritis Schinas, said […]
Greek minister turns down invitation to conference on crimes of communism
Greek Minister of Justice Stavros Kontonis has turned down an invitation to participate in an international conference on crimes committed by Communist regimes to be […]
Back in 2012 Eurogroup agreed a (now forgotten) deal for cutting Greek debt
A dispute between the IMF and Berlin goes back a few years over the sustainability of the Greek debt. But when it comes to the […]
The IMF is not done destroying Greece yet
Zero Hedge — Austerity is over, proclaimed the IMF this week. And no doubt attributed that to the ‘successful’ period of ‘five years of belt […]
Greece, the Review and the Varoufakis solution
It was not surprising that there was not much progress on the Greek bailout review in last Monday’s Eurogroup meeting. In a statement after the meeting […]
Economy contracted in 2016 after all – and was that really a surprise?
Revised figures of the Hellenic Statistical Authority (ELSTAT) published on Monday showed that the country’s gross domestic product (GDP) shrank 1.1 percent on an annual […]
Münchau: A failure to tell the truth imperils Greece and Europe
In a Financial Times article published on Saturday, Wolfgang Münchau accuses all the parties involved in the Greek bailout of failing to face the truth. […]
Athens must pay because IMF can’t and Berlin won’t
New Europe — The IMF says Greece needs debt relief. Alternatively, “structural reforms” [i.e. austerity”] must go further and deeper. Athens and Brussels suggest the […]