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.
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- Nicaragua: From 2007 to 2018, Daniel Ortega Had the Support of the IMF and Conducted Policies Favourable to Big National and International Capital
5 November, by Eric Toussaint
- The Challenges for the Left in Europe and the Eurozone
24 September, by Eric Toussaint
- Bailing out Banks after Lehman Brothers: A Holy Union for a Deuce of a Swindle
17 September, by Eric Toussaint
- The Troika’s Policy in Greece: Rob the Greek people and give the money to private banks, the ECB, the IMF and the dominant States of the Eurozone
28 August, by Eric Toussaint
- Once upon a time there was a popular government that wanted to do away with the export-oriented extractivist model
22 August, by Eric Toussaint , Damien Millet
- A Brief History of the Relations between the World Bank, the IMF, the US Government and Nicaragua
14 August, by Eric Toussaint
- Nicaragua: The evolution of the regime of President Daniel Ortega since 2007
13 August, by Eric Toussaint
- Nicaragua: the story of the Daniel Ortega-Rosario Murillo regime
26 July, by Eric Toussaint
- The mixed fortunes of Argentina’s 2005 and 2010 debt restructurings
28 June, by Eric Toussaint , Maud Bailly
- The IMF is back in Argentina: “an economic and social crisis, even more serious than the present one, looms large on the horizon”
27 June, by Eric Toussaint , Sergio Ferrari
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