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Sixteen former European commissioners are currently receiving monthly payments from the commission’s coffers, even though several of them have already found new, well-paid jobs. The list of who receives the so-called transitional allowance of at least €99,996 per year was acquired by German weekly newspaper Die Zeit. A letter to …

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Do you remember Yanis Varoufakis‘ “doctrine” for a Greek default within the euro zone”? That was back in 2012, when Varoufakis who was just an economics professor and games theorist, was touring the media claiming that “Greece should default within the eurozone.”  Now, exactly today, Wednesday, a similar scenario appeared …

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“I’m the finance minister of a bankrupt country,” Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis told German weekly DIE ZEIT and ZEIT ONLINE in an interview full of messages and good intentions, just days before his meeting with his German counterpart, Wolfgang Schaeuble on Thursday. He promised “a big reform program” and urged …

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 Guido Westerwelle, German Foreign Minister, from neo-liberal Free Democrats Party (FDP) came to his senses. He apparently realized that the populists policies of FDP cannot save his party from the free fall*.  After two years of sharp criticism towards Greece and while FDP chief Philipp Roesler  finally found another playground …

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From time to time there are similar leakages in the European media. That Greece’s lenders, preferably the Germans and the French, put Athens under pressure for lucrative arms deals. There has been talk about German submarines, French frigates and American Apache helicopters. The latest story by German Weekly DIE ZEIT …

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