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Trade in Services Agreement (TISA) could lock in privatisation and increase ability of big business to call the shots on health, education and...

The Greek Company of Property and Holdings SA was created in May 2016 by the Greek parliament as the fourth part of the general law "Urgent provisions for the implementation of the Agreement for fiscal goals and Structural Reform and other provisions". All assets of the Greek state for sale to individuals or "co-management" with so-called institutions were transferred to this company for 99 years, a procedure which is a mere formality since this

By Will Martin Europe is heading towards a "cataclysmic event" that could lead to the collapse of the euro and the end of the European project...

The US$440 billion in Troika loans—and thus Greek debt—has not been employed to benefit the Greek people, or to help the Greek economy recover from its eight years of depression; it has gone to pay the principle and interest on previous Troika debt, as that debt has been piled on prior debt in order to pay for previous debt.

The Greek government must guarantee the independence of its statistics office, the European Commission has said, weeks after criminal charges were brought against a former data chief. The EU executive said failing to protect the statistics office could be "dangerous" for the Greek bailout programme.

The European Commission insists that it knew nothing about diesel emissions manipulations perpetrated by Volkswagen and other automobile manufacturers. Documents obtained by SPIEGEL ONLINE show otherwise.

BREXIT has shown that the EU cannot continue to do more of the same. It is time for a fundamental change of course. If this is not achieved, it will come to uncontrolled, confrontative or even explosive ruptures. If we want to prevent this, clarifying the currency issue is urgent and unavoidable. This is a key issue for the future of the EU -although not the only one. This is the core message of the following Appeal, formulated before the BREXIT decision.

Prime Minister Theresa May said on Friday that Britain would not trigger formal divorce talks with the European Union until a "UK approach" had been agreed, bidding to appease Scots who strongly oppose Brexit.

Financing vs. Spending Unions: How to Remedy the Euro Zone’s Original Sin By Thomas Palley In economic policy, timing isn’t everything, it’s the only thing. The...

On July 5. 2015, in line with the domestic constitutional order, a referendum was held in Greece for the Greek people to adopt a stance, certainly not to exit from the EU – even from the euro (since no such issue had been debated), but to give an answer to the extortive dilemmas of Brussels and the so-called Institutions who are commissioned to serve the Creditors’ interests. T