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GUE/NGL Hearing: The ECB – Europe’s unelected government

Here we document the first part of a hearing, which was organized by the GEU/NGL group on the 14th of January in the European Parliament. The emergence of new “unconventional” policy measures and alternatives Presenter: MEP, Fabio De Masi, GUE/NGL Norbert Häring, economist and journalist, initiator and member of shadow ECB council, co-founder and co-director…

The prospect of a SYRIZA government

by Marika Frangakis, Attac Hellas The outcome of the 2012 national elections in Greece took the Greek and the European political establishment by surprise. SYRIZA (acronym for the Coalition of the Radical Left) – a left party that had not obtained more than 5% of the vote in the past – came second, with 26%…

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The Slovenian banking and debt crisis

The particular focus of this text on the banking and debt crisis that is currently hitting Slovenia, is on the consequences of the process of Slovenia’s accession to the Eurozone and the EU, in order to highlight some problematic macroeconomic shifts witnessed by Slovenia in the wake of European integration. The text will briefly depict…

Newsletter

3rd Newsletter from TroikaWatch

In this newsletter you can read about: Overall situation European level Greece Ireland Portugal Cyprus Spain Italy Slovenia From our side Overall situation Similar to the last few months, the European context is characterized by governments doing window dressing, while the situation for more and more people gets worse. After Ireland, Portugal is likeliest to…

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Spain: popular resistance delivers results

Victory against Madrid’s hospital privatisation – and other recent struggles in Spain – shows popular resistance delivers results. “Resisting is pointless”, we hear endlessly repeated. “So many years of protest but the crisis continues, why bother?” insist others, inoculating us with apathy and resignation. “Protests could lead to something that’s even worse”, whispers the machinery…