ECONOMY-GREECE: Convulsions Follow EU Shock Therapy
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Apostolis Fotiadis ATHENS, May 6 (IPS) – The firebombing of a bank by demonstrators protesting against severe austerity measures, which killed two women and a man,...
View ArticleGreece Passes Austerity Bill, Sparks Protests
AssociatedPress — May 06, 2010 — Greek lawmakers approved a crucial austerity bill Thursday needed to tap $140 billion in bailout loans from the … (more…)
View ArticlePortugal Looking More Like Greece
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Mario de Queiroz LISBON, May 7 (IPS) – Portugal is caught in the crossfire between credit rating agencies and international financial speculators who see this...
View ArticleGREECE: Turks Bearing Gifts
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS Analysis by Apostolis Fotiadis ATHENS, May 15 (IPS) – The first visit in six years of a Turkish prime minister to Greece has been widely hailed as a...
View ArticleGREECE: Society Begins to Crack Under Harsh Measures
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Apostolis Fotiadis ATHENS, Jul 30, 2010 (IPS) – Every working day, more than a hundred people crowd around the entrance of the merchant and passenger...
View ArticleGreek Society Falling, Falling…
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Apostolis Fotiadis ATHENS, Sep 24, 2010 (IPS) – People walking casually past a sleeping or unconscious person has become a recurrent scene in...
View ArticleEUROPE: Greek Tragedy, Act II
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Apostolis Fotiadis ATHENS, Mar 9, 2011 (IPS) – Fears are growing that in the coming months Greece will face increasing difficulty in responding to...
View ArticleGreek PM Talks Tough Amid Worsening Crisis
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Correspondents* DOHA, Jun 16, 2011 (IPS/Al-Jazeera) – George Papandreou, the Greek prime minister, has vowed to pursue reforms aimed at tiding over...
View ArticleGreek Protesters Are Better Economists Than the European Authorities
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy Originally published on The Guardian Unlimited, June 17, 2011 See this article on the original website Mark Weisbrot Imagine that in the worst year of our...
View ArticleThousands of Greeks say no to Austerity
The Real News Network June 18, 2011 Michael Spourdalakis on Greek protests and economy More at The Real News (more…)
View ArticleEuropean Authorities Risking Financial Contagion in Greek Showdown; Where Is...
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy This article was published by The Guardian Unlimited (UK) on June 25, 2011. Read the article in its original form. By Mark Weisbrot The European authorities...
View ArticleGREECE: Public Outrage over Austerity Plan
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Bego Astigarraga ATHENS, Jun 30, 2011 (IPS) – The mass protests in Greece swelled by the hour as parliament voted this Thursday to implement the...
View ArticleGREECE-CYPRUS-ISRAEL ENERGY TRIANGLE: DYNAMICS AND POTENTIALS IN THE EAST...
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy Republished with the author’s permission Read the article in the original form on the RIEAS site. Petros Makris-Kourkoulos (RIEAS Research Associate and...
View ArticleGreeks Gear Up to Cast ‘Protest Votes’ Against Austerity
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS Analysis by Apostolis Fotiadis ATHENS, May 3, 2012 (IPS) – Aggeliki Anagnostopoulou (30) sits in a corner of the huge room that volunteers from the new...
View ArticleRound One to Radical Left, Round Two to Europe?
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS Analysis by Apostolis Fotiadis ATHENS, May 12, 2012 (IPS) – Kosmas Bitros (29) didn’t "believe in politics and in elections as a way of changing...
View ArticleAusterity, the Euro Crisis and the US
Published on May 8, 2012 by TheRealNews Dean Baker: Austerity policy hitting a dead end, threat to US is a sovereign default leading to financial crisis. More at The Real News (more…)
View ArticleIrregular Migrants Face the Boot in Greece
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS Apostolis Fotiadis ATHENS, Aug 29 (IPS) – A crackdown on irregular migration has entered its fourth week in Greece. The government is shutting the...
View ArticleCrisis in the Eurozone: Costas Lapavitsas: 9781844679690: Amazon.com: Books
Crisis in the Eurozone [Costas Lapavitsas] on Amazon.com. *FREE* super saver shipping on qualifying offers. A controversial call to break up the Eurozone and stop the debt crisis. See on www.amazon.com...
View ArticleAlexis Tsipras: ‘We are the great hope for change’
Greece’s young leftist firebrand held the future of his country in his hands for a few days in June. He may do again in 2013 “He came from Greece‘s political wilderness – yet for a few days in June...
View ArticleTroika Becomes the Villain in a Greek Tragedy
Featured Photo: A Greek protester takes a step against austerity measures at a barricade in Athens. Credit: Infowar Productions/IPS. Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS Apostolis Fotiadis...
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