Video: Greece falls prey to ECB diktats and blackmail
19 January 2016 by Eric Toussaint
The following video shows a talk given at the European Parliament in Brussels by Eric Toussaint on 14 January 2016 on the occasion of the international meeting organized by the left-wing European Parliamentary Group GUE/NGL (European United Left/Nordic Green Left). The theme was “The ECB, Europe’s unelected government” (For the full programme, http://cadtm.org/The-ECB-Europe-s-unelected).
Eric Toussaint gave his talk on a panel whose moderator was Dimitris Papadimoulis, a Syriza MEP. Others speakers on the panel were Marika Frangakis, who heads the economics department of Syriza’s political secretariat, and Pearse Doherty, spokesperson on financial matters for the Irish party, Sinn Fein. On other panels held during this day devoted to the ECB were Gabi Zimmer, Die Linke MEP and president of GUE/NGL, Fabio Di Masi, also a Die Linke MEP, Miguel Urban, an MEP from Podemos, and Harald Schumann who made an excellent documentary on the Troika (see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXurytR1IAk and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwuD0MqU3qk). All the talks can be seen on video at http://www.guengl.eu/news/article/the-ecb-europes-unelected-government
Eric Toussaint’s speech :
Dimitris Papadimoulis’ summary :
is a historian and political scientist who completed his Ph.D. at the universities of Paris VIII and Liège, is the spokesperson of the CADTM International, and sits on the Scientific Council of ATTAC France.
He is the author of Bankocracy (2015); The Life and Crimes of an Exemplary Man (2014); Glance in the Rear View Mirror. Neoliberal Ideology From its Origins to the Present, Haymarket books, Chicago, 2012 (see here), etc.
See his bibliography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89ric_Toussaint
He co-authored World debt figures 2015 with Pierre Gottiniaux, Daniel Munevar and Antonio Sanabria (2015); and with Damien Millet Debt, the IMF, and the World Bank: Sixty Questions, Sixty Answers, Monthly Review Books, New York, 2010. Since the 4th April 2015 he is the scientific coordinator of the Greek Truth Commission on Public Debt.
Other articles in English by Eric Toussaint (440)
- ‘Sooner or later, there will be a new financial crisis’
18 April, by Eric Toussaint , Meera Srinivasan
- The first capitulation of Tsipras and Varoufakis at the end of February 2015
9 April, by Eric Toussaint
- We struggle against illegitimate public and private debt which are at the core of the capitalist system
6 April, by Eric Toussaint
- How mainstream media deal about public debt issues
3 April, by Eric Toussaint
- Socialising the banks: some historical examples
21 March, by Eric Toussaint
- Varoufakis-Tsipras move towards the disastrous agreement with the Eurogroup of 20 February 2015
20 February, by Eric Toussaint
- History shows that it is legitimate to repudiate “odious debt”
16 February, by Eric Toussaint , Vittorio De Filippis
- Russian debt repudiation, 100 years on
12 February, by Eric Toussaint , Nathan Legrand
- The Varoufakis-Tsipras Line was Doomed to Fail from the Word ‘Go’
5 February, by Eric Toussaint
- Varoufakis Surrounded Himself with Defenders of the Establishment
29 January, by Eric Toussaint
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- Varoufakis-Tsipras move towards the disastrous agreement with the Eurogroup of 20 February 2015 20 February - Eric Toussaint
- Shocking report: Macroeconomic indicators improve but Greece’s society is suffering 9 February - Confédération hellénique des cadres, artisans et marchands
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