Source: Is Portugal a poster child for austerity? Filed under: Austerity Tagged: Austerity, Eurozone Crisis, Portugal
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Parchment in the Fire: Portugal’s austerity government wins – POLITICO
The center-right coalition, whose reform zeal won Berlin’s admiration, looks short of an outright majority. Source: Portugal’s austerity government wins – POLITICO Filed under: Eurozone crisis Tagged: Austerity, elections, Europe, Eurozone Crisis, Portugal
Continue readingParchment in the Fire: 9 faces to watch in Portugal’s election – POLITICO
An interesting array of candidates for prime minister. Source: 9 faces to watch in Portugal’s election – POLITICO Filed under: Austerity, Europe, Eurozone crisis Tagged: Austerity, Eurozone Crisis, Portugal
Continue readingParchment in the Fire: In Portugal, the Left is caught between two extremes
By Hugo Coelho for the New Statesman – Antonia Costa’s socialists face an unpalatable choice: grand coalition with the right, or cohabitation with die-hard communists on the left. Source: In Portugal, the Left is caught between two extremes Filed under: Austerity, Europe, Eurozone crisis Tagged: Austerity, Eurozone Crisis, Portugal, Portuguese
Continue readingParchment in the Fire: Eurozone’s enforcer ready to keep Greece’s new leader in line | World news | The Guardian
Dutch economist Maarten Verwey has unprecedented powers as his taskforce oversees the implementation of Greece’s cash-for-reforms rescue package Source: Eurozone’s enforcer ready to keep Greece’s new leader in line | World news | The Guardian Filed under: Austerity, Eurozone crisis Tagged: Austerity, Eurozone Crisis, Greece
Continue readingParchment in the Fire: Ahead of Greek election, SYRIZA’s ‘lost generation’ deserts Tsipras | Comment | ekathimerini.com
So divided has SYRIZA’s youth wing become over the direction of Greece’s leftist party, that when its council planned to convene at the end of August, the meeting was abandoned. Too many of its 71 members were on the point of quitting. Source: Ahead of Greek election, SYRIZA’s ‘lost generation’
Continue readingParchment in the Fire: Introducing Popular Unity | Jacobin
Introducing Popular Unity | Jacobin. Filed under: Greece Tagged: Eurozone Crisis, Greece, Greek Left, Syriza
Continue readingParchment in the Fire: Brutish, nasty – and not even short: the ominous future of the eurozone | Wolfgang Streeck | Comment is free | The Guardian
Brutish, nasty – and not even short: the ominous future of the eurozone | Wolfgang Streeck | Comment is free | The Guardian. Filed under: Eurozone crisis Tagged: Eurozone Crisis
Continue readingParchment in the Fire: Yanis Varoufakis: bailout deal allows Greek oligarchs to maintain grip | Business | The Guardian
Yanis Varoufakis: bailout deal allows Greek oligarchs to maintain grip | Business | The Guardian. Filed under: Eurozone crisis Tagged: Austerity, Eurozone Crisis, Greece
Continue readingParchment in the Fire: Swapping one mirage for another: the Left’s turn away from social Europe
Swapping one mirage for another: the Left’s turn away from social Europe. Filed under: Europe, Eurozone crisis Tagged: Austerity, Eurozone Crisis
Continue readingParchment in the Fire: Podemos, Greece and the hot Spanish autumn
Podemos, Greece and the hot Spanish autumn. Filed under: Eurozone crisis Tagged: Eurozone Crisis, Greece, Podemos, Spain, Syriza
Continue readingParchment in the Fire: Will the Greek Left Unite to Oppose Austerity?
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Continue readingParchment in the Fire: How the Greek Shipping Industry Schemed to Win Big in the Debt Crisis (1/2)
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Continue readingParchment in the Fire: Why Greece’s ritual humiliation won’t kill off Europe’s revolutionary Left – Telegraph
Why Greece’s ritual humiliation won’t kill off Europe’s revolutionary Left – Telegraph. Filed under: Eurozone crisis Tagged: Austerity, European left, Eurozone Crisis, Greece, Syriza
Continue readingParchment in the Fire: SYRIZA’s Thessaloniki Programme vs. Euro-Troika Austerity
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Continue readingParchment in the Fire: SYRIZA’s Stability Rocked by New Memorandum
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Continue readingParchment in the Fire: Euros discarded as impoverished Greeks resort to bartering | World news | The Guardian
Euros discarded as impoverished Greeks resort to bartering | World news | The Guardian. Filed under: Eurozone crisis, Greece Tagged: Austerity, Eurozon Crisis, Greece
Continue readingParchment in the Fire: Germany, not Greece, should say goodbye to the euro | Comment | ekathimerini.com
Germany, not Greece, should say goodbye to the euro | Comment | ekathimerini.com. Filed under: Eurozone crisis Tagged: Euro, European Union, Eurozone Crisis, Germany
Continue readingParchment in the Fire: Capitalism and Democracy in Greece
There has been no paucity of allusions to Greek tragedy when discussing the current negotiations between Greece and its European creditors: Syriza caught between Scylla of austerity and the Charibdas of ‘Grexit’; Greece’s Sisyphean task of paying down its debt through contractionary austerity policies; the Pyrrhic victory of the no
Continue readingCuriosityCat: A Modest Proposal for Reducing Greek Debt
No ‘classic’ debt forgiveness for the lady The fault line between German insistence on Greece obeying the rules, which means if you borrow money you pay it all back, and the inability of Greece to pay back all its loans, as outlined by the leaked IMF report, continues. The Greek
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