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Posted in Economics, Europe, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Politics, Spain, UK
Tagged Alexis Tsipras, Angela Merkel, Christine Lagarde, European Union, eurozone, François Hollande, IMF, Jean-Claude Juncker, Leonidas, Manolis Glezos, Matteo Renzi, Podemos, Simonides, Syriza, Thermopylae, troika, Wolfgang Schäuble, Yanis Varoufakis
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Athens rejects Spartan terms
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Posted in Austria, Economics, Europe, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Netherlands, Politics, Spain, USA
Tagged Areopagus, Athens, democracy, Ephialtes, François Hollande, IMF, Jean-Claude Juncker, Jeroen Dijsselbloem, Jyrki Katainen, Luis de Guindos, New Democracy, partitocracy, Pnyx, Potomac, Sparta, Syntagma, Syriza, Wolgang Schäuble
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Gary Cooper and the Sheriff of Athens
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. 9 February 2015 UNITED STATES OF EUROPE Let’s hear it for Alan Greenspan, chairman of the … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Europe, Germany, Greece, Politics, USA
Tagged Alan Greenspan, Alexis Tsipras, Ayn Rand, ECB, European Commission, European Union, eurozone, Gary Cooper, IMF, Nathaniel Branden, troika, United States of Europe, Yanis Varoufakis
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Democracy? No thanks!
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. 25 November 2013 Enough is enough, the Greek government has finally told the triad (European Commission, … Continue reading
Posted in Europe, Germany, Greece, USA
Tagged Antonis Samaras, austerity, democracy, democratic deficit, ECB, EU, Greece, IMF, Syriza
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Spectacular bank heist in Cyprus
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Posted in Economics, Europe, Greece, Russia, USA
Tagged Cyprus, European Union, IMF, Nicos Anastasiades, stability levy
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A lost decade
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. 4 October 2012 The current global economic crisis, which began when the sub-prime mortgage bubble burst … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Hungary
Tagged IMF, Olivier Blanchard, portfolio.hu, sub-prime mortgages
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Arsonists putting out fires
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. 8 May 2012 Apologies to readers outside Europe, but we continue to blog on the Greek … Continue reading
International law = imperialism
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. 3 May 2012 “Imperialism didn’t end. Now we call it international law.” This is the headline … Continue reading
Posted in Politics, Torture, UK, UN, USA
Tagged decolonisation, IMF, International Criminal Court, World Bank
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DAS VIERTE REICH / THE FOURTH REICH
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Posted in Europe, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Portugal, Spain
Tagged austerity, ECB, EU, fiscal compact, Fourth Reich, growth, IMF
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