Tag Archives: criticism

 It is commonly accepted: the second bailout for Greece is not about saving Greece (the country) or the Greeks (citizens). It’s all about saving banks, lenders and the eurozone. Recently I asked the Cheshire Cat to write about the two bailouts that will enslave Greeks for the rest of their …

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Costas Simitis, Greece’ prime minister that led the country to euro zone, fiercely criticized the authors of the Memorandum of Understanding , the loan agreement singed between Greece and its lenders to enable the debt-ridden country to receive the rescue package of €110 billion in may 2010. “The agreement between the …

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The European road has its reached dead-end. Call it “Greek crisis”, call it “Euro crisis” the European leaders prove day in day out that they are not able to deal with this challenge. EU leaders live in their own happy-go-merry world with some aging EU-gentlemen ridiculte themselves by  claiming they are sexy. If …

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The United Nations warned that the austerity measures in countries like Greece threaten a global recovery and it criticized the lending conditions set by institutions such as the IMF. Here is the very interesting approach by the UN. But as we have seen repeatedly in the past, hardly somebody pays …

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Is “Cheese-eater” a no-no word? It looks so if we want to believe British Tony Metcalfe, editor in chief of Metro news papers in the USA. On the occasion of European reactions and Americans cheers to the killing of Osama bin Laden, Metcalfe wrote on his blog: “Given the celebrations …

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I don’t quite understand why people – media included- are upset about Greece’s Finance Minister flight to Washington with prime-ministerial jet. George Papaconstantinou, the finance minister of a debt-hit and disparaged country, had to attend the spring session of International Monetary Fund. Instead of taking a commercial flight, he jetted …

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