Tag Archives: Plan B

“Greece will pay Gazprom in a way that will not violate sanctions and will ensure the country’s energy efficiency,” Energy Minister Costas Skrekas said on Thursday, following a gas supply emergency meeting chaired by the Prime Minister. the Greek government has worked out a Plan B for the case that …

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The next few days are especially critical for the course of the pandemic in Greece and health experts warn of a coronavirus nightmare expecting the culmination of covid-19 infections before Christmas. While the government already put in force more restrictions for unvaccinated citizens, there are scenarios circulating about the Plan …

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The Greek government is considering to impose new restrictions as coronavirus infections continue to rise with an increase of asymptomatic patients and “unsourced” infections. Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has called for an extraordinary meeting with government ministers and health experts on Wednesday afternoon. Greek epidemiologists reportedly recommend to make the …

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The Greek government will issue a Legislative Act with measures to avert and contain the spread of the coronavirus. The measures include, among others,  restrictions of public transport means, suspension of education classes and private events. The measures, focusing mainly to prevent the virus spreading. will be implemented depending on …

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Outgoing head of the European Central Bank, Mario Draghi, has said that he was never part of the camp that wanted “to let Greece go” from the eurozone during the deadlock between lenders and the then recently elected SYRIZA party in 2015. In an interview with the Financial Times published …

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Yanis Varoufakis keeps up with the good work and his revelations about the crucial negotiations with the European lenders in the first half of 2015. In an interview with Sunday newspaper Proto Thema, the former finance minister revealed that Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras was considering the accept Schaeuble’s plan about …

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“I have made mistake, big mistakes,” Greek prime Minister Alexis Tsipras told UK daily The Guardian, his biggest error may have been “the choice of people in key posts”.  For the first time ever since Yanis Varoufakis left the government in summer 2015 and kept sharply criticizing Tsipras on his …

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Europeans reportedly work on a Plan B for Greece. Who are exactly these “Europeans” I cannot tell you. The “European” creditors incl German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble? The “Europeans” of the European Commission and Commissioner Pierre Moscovici? Some other “Europeans” who have a saying but stay behind the stage? It …

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The European Commission keeps its Plan B for Greece in the Berlaymont building in Brussels, in a safe. A secret with seven seals. The emergency Grexit plan drafted by the Commission in summer 2015 in the peak of the crisis between the Greek government and the European creditors. The 200-point …

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Greek Migration Ministry denied the report of German daily Bild that an alternative Plan B is needed should Turkey walk out of the EU-Turkey Migration Deal to stem flows to Europe. “The minister denies Bild’s translation of his comments,” the immigration ministry said in a statement, publishing what it said …

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The European Union must come up with an alternative plan in order to tackle  Migration in case Turkey makes its threats true and walk out form the Migration deal. “We are very concerned,” Greek Migration Minister Yiannis Mouzalas told German conservative daily Bild after Turkey threatened to walk out of …

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One year after the Greek Referendum. One year after controversial Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis was shown the way out. One year after a very painful Greek experience. And the book of Varoufakis’ former advisor, US economic James Galbraith who drafter the “Plan B for Grexit” is being presented to Greek …

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The European Union allegedly prepares a Plan B to stem refugees and migrants flow in case that Turkey’s president Recep Tayyip Erdogan steps back for the EU Turkey deal and starts sending boats to Europe again. What is this Plan B? To isolate the Greek islands from the mainland and …

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The closure of borders in the north of Greece has created chaos: thousands of refugees and migrants wandering from Athens to Idomeni without knowing where to sleep and what to eat, where to lay their kids and elderly to sleep. FYROM, Croatia, Slovenia and Austria has closed their border today. …

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Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras gave full coverage to former Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis and said that he ordered the ex FinMin to work out an emergency  contingency plan but not a Grexit plan. Speaking to the Greek Parliament after a question posed by PASOK leader Fofi Gennimatas, Tsipras said among …

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The controversial audio excerpt from the conference call between former Finance Minister, Yanis Varoufakis with international hedge funds representatives has been uploaded on internet. In the audio Varoufakis speaks of his Plan B project that contains among others also “hacking taxpayers’ registration numbers” and the creation of a “parallel banking …

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Paul Krugman believes that money is magic and if you believe in social justice, income equality and fairies, you can click your heels together three times and you can print all the money you want. Also he’s shocked that the Greek government had no backup plan except holding its breath. …

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I have a … moment, right now. I’m deeply touched by Schaeuble’s compassion  towards the suffering Greeks. Hear saying over hear saying, German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble reportedly told his Christian Democrat buddies in Parliament: “We know that a large part of the Greek population is suffering but the Greek …

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Surprise!? Gerry Rice, director of The IMF’s communication department relvead to journalists the truth. That the international Monetary Fund had a Plan B for the case things in Greece would get out of control. “The IMF has worked  out Plan B to contain the crisis, should things with Greece get …

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Huh!? We have a saying in Greek, I will reveal it to you at the end of the post… Dutch Finance Minister and Eurogroup head Jeroen Dijsselbloem warned the Greek government that Europe is prepared for any outcome to the standoff between Greece and its creditors. Of course, Dijsselbloem did …

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