Panagiotarea, Eleni (2015) “The Greek Surge against Austerity: A Blessing or a Curse for the Eurozone?“, Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung – European Union, 08 Απριλίου 2015.   Syriza’s advent of power was supposed to seriously challenge the eurozone’s austerity orthodoxy and put an end to an economic adjustment programme, which saw Greece’s GDP fall by 25 per cent and unemployment rise by 26 per cent. The radical-left populist party was instrumental in exploiting …Read More

Ψαλλίδας, Μιχάλης, “Χτίζοντας φορολογική κουλτούρα“, Crowdpolicy Blog, 22 Μαρτίου 2015.   Προτεραιότητα της κάθε πολιτικής ηγεσίας διαχρονικά είναι η καταπολέμηση της φοροδιαφυγής. Ομοίως, ο σημερινός Υπουργός Οικονομικών σε πρόσφατη συνέντευξή του ανέφερε ως πρώτη προτεραιότητα της κυβέρνησης την καταπολέμηση της φοροδιαφυγής. Σύμφωνα με στοιχεία του ΟΟΣΑ για το 2009 το μέγεθος της ελληνικής μαύρης οικονομίας ήταν περίπου 65 δις ευρώ με διαφυγόντες φόρους περίπου 20 δις ευρώ. Φαίνεται επικερδής η …Read More

Tsekeris, C. (2015) “Greece requires political reform as much as structural reform of its economy“, LSE EUROPP, 07 Απριλίου.   The Greek government and its creditors have still not reached an agreement on the release of further financial assistance to the country, despite fears growing over the state of Greece’s finances ahead of a scheduled loan repayment to the IMF on 9 April. Charalambos Tsekeris writes that while the discussions …Read More

Wren-Lewis, S. (2015) “Greece And Other Benefit Scroungers“, Social Europe Journal, 30 Μαρτίου.   Whenever I write a post critical of German views on Eurozone policy, I get comments which can be paraphrased in the following way. Greece (and maybe other Eurozone countries) are incapable of governing themselves properly, and when they get into difficulties Germany has to bail them out, so it is only reasonable that as a price …Read More

Mark Weisbrot, Destroying the Greek economy in order to save it – European authorities are using dirty tactics to bring Greece to heel, Al Jazeera America, 30 Μαρτίου 2015.   There is a tense standoff right now between the Greek government and the so-called troika — the European Commission, the European Central Bank (ECB), and the International Monetary Fund (IMF). ECB President Mario Draghi went so far this week as …Read More