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  • The Special Regime of Media in Greece

  • By Stelios Foteinopoulos | 11 Jun 12
  • Media crisis in Greece comes as a consequence of the lack of real democracy that becomes more and more intensive. If in Greece, there is a non-pluralistic sector of public life, this is definitely the mainstream private media. These stations took their license to transmit through public frequencies...
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  • "A Road Map For The New Greece"

  • 06 Jun 12
  • Speech of Alexis Tsipras, President of the Parliamentary Group of Syriza - Unitary Social Front (USF), during the presentation of the Party Programme, Athinas Hall, Friday, 1 June 2012
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  • Not a Debate about the Euro

  • By Elena Papadopoulou | 05 Jun 12
  • For everyone who has studied backwards induction in game theory, “the case of Europe” could not constitute a better occasion for her to practice it. Players are there, uncertainty is there, probabilities are there, multiple outcomes are there. Only the game is real, and the way it turns out will not...
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  • Spanish Banks in Distress

  • By Javier Navascués | 04 Jun 12
  • Since the crisis began Spanish authorities have been denying emphatically any risk for the Spanish banking sector. In fact the reality was other and well known at least since May 2006 when a group of Bank of Spain inspectors warned of an insurmountable pile of debt growing behind the real-estate...
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  • The 1st Balkan Forum: “Another Balkans is Possible!”

  • 04 Jun 12
  • The 1st Balkan Forum took place within the 2012 Subversive Forum in Zagreb on May 17th and 18th and gathered up to 40 progressive organisations and movements from across the region. During two days of intensive discussion panel participants and audience members analysed current social struggles in...
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  • Breaking the Memorandum Fetish

  • By Loudovikos Kotsonopoulos | 30 May 12
  • Two years ago the Greek government drafted a memorandum of co-operation (henceforth Memorandum) with the EU, the IMF and the ECB as a precondition to receive financial assistance and to avoid an immediate default. At the outset, the Memorandum was presented as a solution to the developmental impasse...
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  • 10 programmatic commitments of SYRIZA

  • 29 May 12
  • THE EXIT FROM THE CRISIS IS ON THE LEFT 1. Formulating a shield to protect society against the crisis Not a single citizen without a guaranteed minimum income or unemployment benefit, medical care, social protection, housing and access to all services of public utilities.Protection and relief...
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  • A Spectre is Haunting Europe

  • By Elisabeth Gauthier , Walter Baier | 25 May 12
  • A spectre is haunting Europe. This time it is the spectre of a political change of the European Union, which was put on the agenda by the election victory of SYRIZA and the outcome of the French presidential elections. And again, all the powers of old Europe have joined forces for a holy chivvy...
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