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Cyprus – whose crisis?

The economic crisis in Cyprus erupted during the second cycle of the European recession of 2011 as a result of harsh austerity policies imposed since 2010 in Europe. It is a new crisis born out of a...

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Chypre : La troïka persiste et signe

20 avril par Jérome Duval Le premier « corralito » |1| européen Comme en Espagne, le modèle de développement avec le taux de croissance élevé des années 2000 en large partie dû au secteur de...

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Greece: Depression or recession? Are the Troika bailing out or forcing under?

13 August by Jérome Duval (PACD Spain) Six years of recession, an impressive drop in GDP from €231 billion in 2009 to €193 billion in 2012, unemployment at 26.9% in April 2013 from 7.5% in 2008, 57%...

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1st newsletter of Troika Watch

In this newsletter you can read about: Overall situation Greece Ireland Portugal Cyprus Spain Italy Slovenia Who we are and why we write this newsletter Overall situation The last months of the year...

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D19-20 ALLIANCE DAY OF ACTION: looking back as the smoke clears

by Corporate European Observatory It’s 7am and the crowds are beginning to arrive, weaving their way out of the darkness towards the blazing bonfire, flaming hay bales and wooden pallets warming up...

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From Olympic spectacle to social crisis: review of Future Suspended

By Christina Laskaridis Review: Crisis-Scape’s new film invites us in to the shadows of Athens, a city tenuously held together by state imposed order, privatisation, anxiety and violence. New...

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Time to act is now! / Activists from many countries will protest against ECB...

Just few days left to the inauguration of the new building of the ECB. Great participation is expected from all over Europe: social movements, activists, migrants, precarious and industry workers,...

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Decentralized actions Blockupy central banks !

Around the (successful) mobilization of Blockupy in Frankfurt, several decentralized actions took place in central national banks (that are part of ECB) –> Italy Autonomous activists from north-east...

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The Speaker of the Greek parliament launches a debt audit commission

The Speaker of the Greek parliament, Zoé Konstantopoulou, has announced during a press conference on 17 March 2015 the creation of a commission to audit the Greek debt. The scientific coordination of...

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Preliminary Report of the Truth Committee on Public Debt

The Truth Committee on Public Debt (Debt Truth Committee) was established on April 4, 2015, by a decision of the President of the Hellenic Parliament, Ms Zoe Konstantopoulou, who confided the...

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European Conference on debt in Brussels

16 October Brussels, Belgium European Citizens’ Assembly on debt Auditoire Dom Helder Camara, Rue Plétinckx, 19  (Siège CSC), 9h30-17h30 Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/855… In the name...

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#Cyprus should learn from Icelandic approach to bust banks

Tim Jones: The people of Cyprus needs to follow Iceland’s example, and make reckless lenders take a hit, whilst protecting deposits of ordinary Cypriots. Source: Jubilee Debt Campaign UK Cyprus’s banks...

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In the face of barbarity: solidarity. The social clinics in Greece

The greek health´s system has been collapsed. Under the Troika´s direction and the government complicity are many the medical centers, departments and hospitals that have been closed or united, and the...

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Cyprus is paying a painful price for bowing to international capital

Photograph: Getty Images By Tim Jones, source Newstatesman.com Being controlled by global financial interests does not benefit ordinary people, their economy or democracy, writes the Jubilee Debt...

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Cyprus – whose crisis?

The economic crisis in Cyprus erupted during the second cycle of the European recession of 2011 as a result of harsh austerity policies imposed since 2010 in Europe. It is a new crisis born out of a...

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