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Jul 04
Support for the resisting Greek people. For the people’s right to audit public debt
APPEAL TO SUPPORT THE RESISTING GREEK PEOPLE and its TRUTH COMMISSION ON PUBLIC DEBT FOR THE PEOPLES’ RIGHT TO AUDIT PUBLIC DEBT Click here GreekDebtTruthCommission.org to sign this Appeal Indicative list of 800 personalities supporting Greece To the people of Europe and the whole world! To all the men and women who reject the politics …
Jul 01
Tsipras letter to the Troika, accepting most conditions
Last minute letter, dated July 1st 2015, from the Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras to the Troika, states that Greece will accept most of the terms of the last offer received from Brussels. The referendum scheduled for this Sunday July 5th is designed to ask the Greek citizens to decide on the final proposal. Download it …
Jul 01
“Auditing Greece” press conference
Your browser does not support iframes. Press conference July 1st, 10h (in Spanish) At the Federacio Catalana de ONGs BARCELONA Speakers: Diego Borja, Minister of Finance in Ecuador during the restructuring of debt in that country Daniel Munevar, advisor to the Greek Minister of Finance Yanis Varoufakis Sergi Cutillas, researcher at the Spanish Citizen Debt Audit Platform (PACD) and the …
Jun 29
Troika’s proposal for Greece
Last Sunday June 29th, the European Commission made public the Troika’s last proposal for Greece. The Greek Government calls for a referendum on this proposal next July, 6th. The proposal can be downloaded HERE.
Jun 27
Alexis Tsipras’ Speech, calling for a referendum
The full speech of Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, calling for a referendum on lenders’ bailout terms. Text extracted from Reuters. My fellow Greeks, For the past six months the Greek government has been giving battle in conditions of unprecedented economic asphyxiation, to implement your mandate, of Jan. 25. It was a mandate to negotiate with our …
Jun 27
Eurogroup statement on Greece
The Eurogroup, without the Greek Minister of Finance Yanis Varoufakis – who has been expelled from the meeting – has spoken. Since the 20 February 2015 agreement of the Eurogroup on the extension of the current financial assistance arrangement, intensive negotiations have taken place between the institutions and the Greek authorities to achieve a successful …
Jun 26
The banks’ secret behind the Greek tragedy
Maria Lucia Fattorelli [1] Greece is facing a huge debt problem and a humanitarian crisis. The situation now is many times worst than it was in 2010, when the Troika – IMF, EU Commission and ECB – imposed its “bailout plan”, justified by the necessity to support Greece. In fact, such plan has been a …
Jun 24
Greece proposal to the Troika
Last Monday’s new proposal from the Greek government (attached at the bottom of this entry) for the Eurogroup, less than seven days before the payment to the International Monetary Fund is officially due. The proposal contains 7.9 billion euros in measures, of which 7.3 are from increases to tax and social security contributions in a country that no longer has any …
Jun 21
Preliminary Report of the Truth Committee on Greek Public Debt
Published by CADTM 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 Toussaint and the cooperation of the Committee with the European Parliament and other …
Jun 17
Executive Summary: Greek Public Debt Audit report
June 17th, by the Greek Debt Truth Committee 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 programmes began, the country remains deeply cemented in an economic, …