“Challenging the Rule of Troika, Transforming Europe”

On 10 March 2014, Dublin City University hosted a conference, co-organised with transform!europe, to investigate the effects of troika rule in the four countries subjected to IMF-ECB-EU programmes (Greece, Ireland, Portugal and Cyprus), while also looking at those countries hovering on the edge of such programmes, such as Spain.

Economists and politicians from these countries came together to analyse, not only what had happened, but also to deliberate on what the Left can make to happen to turn this around in the interests of working people who have suffered so grievously during this crisis.
The keynote address was given by Alexis Tsipras, which inspired a sense of a European Left gathering strength and momentum.
Find the conference programme here.

Video records:

Keynote address – Alexis Tsipras “A Left Political Alternative for the Refoundation of Europe”

Introduction by Helena Sheehan, John Doyle, Walter Baier

Maria Karamessini

Michael Taft

Rafael Munoz de Bustillo Liorente

Group Discussion 1

Marisa Matias

David Jacobson

Panagiotis Pandelidis

Group Discussion 2

Marga Ferre

Sotiris Vlachos

Paul Murphy

Group Discussion 3

Mary Lou McDonald