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Europe is not defending its own accomplishments, its heritage and social model and has surrendered to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), which explains its existential crisis, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said on Thursday evening, addressing an event organized by the Transform! Europe network, in Rome’s “La Sapienza” University. “We are …

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Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias sent a strong message to the European Union partners: “Greece will not take back refugees from northern Europe,” he said adding that “a new wave this summer would overwhelm us.” In an interview to German daily Die Welt, Kotzias said Greece does not have the capacity …

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“In the EU, we have a deficit in leadership,” Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias said in an interview with the US magazine National Interest. His remarks about Germany, Turkey, Russia, the refugee crisis and the conflict in Syria are  “noteworthy for their clear stands,” the magazine notes. With the European …

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What went wrong with the Refugee Crisis in Greece? Two journalists, Daniel Howden (UK) and Apostolis Fotiadis (GR) investigated the issue and published their article under the title “The Refugee Archipelago: The Inside Story of What Went Wrong in Greece” in Refugees Deeply, an independent digital media project dedicated to …

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The report of the International Monetary Fund angered not only the Greeks but also its European Lenders. Greece was angered because the IMF insists on demanding two major income cuts: pensions cut and lowering the tax-free allowance. Greece’s European lenders, on the other hand, got angry because the IMF insists …

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Without conclusion of the second program review there will be no discussion on debt neither we will enter ECB’s Quantitative Easing and consequently return to the markets. This dramatic warning came from Greece’s Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos on Monday. Speaking at the conference “Time for the Greek Economy” in Athens, …

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What a self-deluding arrogance. The EU is apparently losing patience with Greece as “overcrowded refugee camps that turn violent” and Athens do not keep the terms of the EU Turkey deal to send refugees back to Turkey. Citing parts of the EU Commission progress report on Refugee Crisis in Greece, …

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Remember that Sunday, on June 28th, a year ago? Remember the queues outside ATMs growing in a quick and non-stop pace? It was a day after Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras had announced a Referendum amid suffocating pressure from the European Union, financial dry out by the European Central Bank and …

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Humanitarian organization Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) announced today that it will no longer take funds from the European Union and Member States, in opposition to what the MSF describes as EU’s “damaging deterrence policies and intensifying attempts to push people and their suffering away from European shores.” The decision is …

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One day before his visit to Greece, Russian President Vladimir Putin shared his thoughts about Greek-Russian relations and sharply criticized Europe and the European Commission. In an open letter sent to daily Kathimerini, Putin also expressed strong interest in Privatizations, especially in TRAINOSE and the Port of Thessaloniki. Hailing Greece …

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The anti-torture report published today by the Council of Europe criticizes strongly excessive police force and poor prison conditions in Greece. The report is the result of a visit to Greek prison carried out by the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture/Inhuman or Degrading Treatment/Punishment between 14 and 24 …

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We might have been considering the Christmas Grinch as a pure ‘fictional character”.  But reality proves we were wrong: the grumpy, the anti-holiday spirit exists. And thus not alone but together with its clones. This year’s Grinch came from Germany and outright in a double pack. In form of  Finance Minister …

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Greek Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos criticized his predecessor Yanis Varoufakis and the first SYRIZA-ANEL government. He accused them for not having done enough against tax evasion or corruption. Speaking at the Economic Conference organized by the American-Hellenic Chamber of Commerce., Tsakalotos said among others that “for some social classes taxation …

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With 154 votes the omnibus bill with 1000+1 austerity measures was approved late on Friday night. In the first important vote after the elections, SYRIZA-ANEL coalition government did not manage to persuade all of its lawmakers to vote in favor. The ‘defiant’ MP was from ANEL.        White nights in …

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I already  told you yesterday: that the war between Greece’s lenders was already on underway and that heavy bomb shelling with poison mortar and blame-game was just a matter of time. Even if it sounds unbelievable, this time the target is not Greece but the International Monetary Fund that is …

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It is the European Central Bank that destroys the Monetary Union and not the euro itself. It is the ECB  that does not fulfill its mandate and becomes subservient to political will. An approach widely supported by more and more high-level academics and economic journalists. “Cutting off Greek banks from the …

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Oldest Member of the European Parliament and veteran left politician Manolis Glezos had a very original idea on Tuesday morning. He sharply criticized the “I-talk-non -stop-and-scare-Greeks” European Parliament President Martin Schulz teaching him a lesson on how democracy works. Glezos addressed Schulz in Ancient Greek and added also a sentence …

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Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras sharply criticized the country’s creditors on insisting to impose a “failed program” and accused the International Monetary Fund of “criminal responsibility for what has happened in the last 5 years.” Speaking to his own lawmakers in SYRIZA’s parliamentary group on Tuesday, Alexis Tsipras also accused …

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Veteran Politician and resistance fighter, Manolis Glezos, with 92 years the oldest member of the European Parliament called on Greeks to take to the streets and stage protests against the “economic asphyxiation” imposed by Greece’s creditors. And to say “NO to loan sharks” of the Troika-Institutions. At the same time, …

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German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble could not tame himself and poured the usual poison against Greece. And not only! He rebuffed the European Commission for its efforts to a way out of the impasse in the bailout talks. In an interview to The Wall Street Journal and French daily Les …

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