I, too, am Greek ! Solidarity with the Greek people !
Thousands of ordinary European citizens have joined their voices to the "Movement of Nantes." demanding double nationality! People all across Europe who want to express their support to Greece during this difficult period of crisis, started the "Movement of Nantes" and ...
DEBTOCRACY - a documentary produced by the audience
“Debtocracy” is a documentary that seeks the causes of the Greek crisis and proposes solutions, hidden by the government and the dominant media. Watch it below with English subtitles: [youtube 1_yTriIJa9I] Debtocracy website: http://www.debtocracy.gr/indexen.html
The Shock Doctrine - Documentary (A Must See...)
An important documentary based on Naomi Klein’s 2007 book, The Shock Doctrine. A study of disaster capitalism, based on Naomi Klein’s proposition that neo-liberal capitalism feeds on disasters, war and terror in order to establish its dominance. Today Greek society seems ...
We Are All Greeks - Protests of solidarity all around the world!
Solidarity protests for Greece are organized in many European countries for this Saturday! People will protest against economic crisis and its effects on the Greek society. As noted in an online call to the international audience, the austerity measures that the ...
17th November Celebration in Greece
Every year, on the 17th of November, Greeks but especially Greek students memorialize the students’ revolt against the colonels’ junta. Students prepare school celebrations, and a big march starts at the Athens Technical University and ends in the American Embassy, ...
CATASTROIKA: Privatization goes public (Video - A must see...)
On April 26, 2012 at 20:00 let’s turn off the TV and turn to an alternative source of information. The creators of Debtocracy, a documentary viewed by millions of people around the world, present their new production, entitled CATASTROIKA. They analyze the ...
TEENAGE RIOT: ATHENS - Documentary Video!
An extremely interesting documentary from VICE network about the recent riots last month in Athens: On the eve of the biggest Greek strike since the right-wing junta was overthrown almost three decades ago, VICE travels to Athens to meet up with the people ...Angela Merkel in Athens today!
German Chancellor Angela Merkel is due to Athens today, Tuesday, October 9th 2012.
Greek police issued a statement that any public gatherings and marches would be banned that time in a large area around the city center. (Follow the link to see the map below)
Greece Should Leave Euro to Rebuild Economy, says Martin Feldstein
Martin Stuart Feldstein (George F. Baker Professor of Economics at Harvard and also president emeritus of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) ) talked about the prospects of a Greek euro exit in an interview at Bloomberg.
He expressed the opinion that there is no specific formula that the countries can follow in order to solve their economic problems. Each country is different... and in the case of Greece and there is no solution but to exit the euro zone since the country's economy is in terrible situation that can not be fixed...
“Well, I think it would create chaos, it would create problems” says Mr. Feldstein and he adds,
“It would be better for Greece to be able to adopt a new currency, a drachma, allow the currency to fall as currencies did in East Asia and in Latin America; that would give a significant boost to growth in Greece as Greeks shift their spending to domestically produce goods and services.”
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Spain is doing everything right, but it’s being contaminated by Greece, according to Wolfgang Schaeuble
Spain has openly acknowledged problems with the refinancing of the financial markets and fueled speculation about further escalation of the crisis. “The markets are in fact no longer accessible in the current interest rates for Spain”, Cristobal Montoro, Minister of Finance said at the radio station Onda Cero. That admission put pressure on the € and caused further losses in equity markets.
Nigel Farage: euro break-up, just a question of how… (Video)
Nigel Farage: "These are big changes - the euro is doomed. And your policy sir, even if Greece accepts the austerity you're putting upon them, even if for the next eight years they obey all of this, they'll be still in 2020 have a debt GDP ratio of a 120 percent; which makes one ask "What is the point?"
The answer: "Laughing"
Watch the video below:
The unemployment reached 19,2% !
The unemployment rate in Greece reached 19.2 percent at the end of last year, according to the research of the European Statistical Office (Eurostat), which were released Tuesday.
Greece was the second EU country with the highest unemployment rate, after Spain (22.7%).
In comparison with October 2011 unemployment in Greece was increased by 5.3% within a 12 month period!!
For the same month, Greece had the second highest unemployment rate in the EU for young people under 25 (47.2% when Spain reached 48.3%).
Everyday consumer goods up to 85% more expensive in Greece!
Multinationals companies and monopolies continue to empty the wallets of Greek consumers, selling their products up to 85% more expensive in Greece, in comparison with other EU countries.
The price records were revealed by the "Market Supervision Department" of the Ministry of Development Competitiveness and Shipping and was published by the newspaper "Ethnos".
Multinational companies which hold monopolistic or oligopolistic position in the industry, continue to shape high margins to the detriment of Greek households , despite the economic downturn, the wage cuts and the increasing unemployment.
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