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		<title>The right to disobedience (or Of Greece&#8217;s squats)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jan 2013 13:49:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In December 2012, Hellenic police evicted squatters in the Villa Amalias building in central Athens, located at the crossing of Acharnon and Heyden str. The building belongs to the Hellenic Schools Buildings Organisation. The squat has been going on for 22 years. On 9 January 2012, the squatters re-occupied the villa (video) and the police arrested [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=greeceandtheimf.wordpress.com&#038;blog=23497509&#038;post=366&#038;subd=greeceandtheimf&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mr. Stournaras&#8217;s credentials</title>
		<link>http://greeceandtheimf.wordpress.com/2012/07/08/mr-stournarass-credentials/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jul 2012 16:15:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, Greece&#8221;s new Finance Minister  Prof. Yannis Stournaras made his first policy speech since taking office. He said that Greece must implement the measures it has agreed upon its international lenders and he announced that he would speed up privatisations. Some key points of his speech include (here, in full, in Greek): speeding up the privatisation programme [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=greeceandtheimf.wordpress.com&#038;blog=23497509&#038;post=355&#038;subd=greeceandtheimf&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Catastroika made in Greece</title>
		<link>http://greeceandtheimf.wordpress.com/2012/07/08/catastroika-made-in-greece/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jul 2012 13:47:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to Greek Finance Minister Yannis Stournaras, the Greek government will pursue an aggressive plan of privatisation, in an effort to satisfy international lenders, the European Commission- ECB – IMF troika. Privatisations have always been part of any IMF lending agreement in the world, as have trade liberalisation, reducing budget deficit and the public sector [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=greeceandtheimf.wordpress.com&#038;blog=23497509&#038;post=350&#038;subd=greeceandtheimf&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Immigrant stabbed in Athens</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jun 2012 21:04:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear non-Greek friends, this is a video where you can see (or rather hear, unfortunately in Greek) members of the neonazi party Golden Dawn attacking an immigrant with a knife in Athens metro. The view that they belong to the Golden Dawn comes from their clothes and the mob-style of their attack. The person whose [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=greeceandtheimf.wordpress.com&#038;blog=23497509&#038;post=345&#038;subd=greeceandtheimf&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Memorandum of Understanding</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jun 2012 22:24:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Below is a link with the Memorandum of Understanding between Greece and the IMF. It should be noted that the Greek parliament voted on the draft. The final contract has never reached the Greek parliament. Here it is in English and in Greek.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=greeceandtheimf.wordpress.com&#038;blog=23497509&#038;post=315&#038;subd=greeceandtheimf&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Point of no return</title>
		<link>http://greeceandtheimf.wordpress.com/2012/05/14/point-of-no-return/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 22:53:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week, the Greek elections were at the centre of international attention. The first reason was that the election results saw a neo-nazi (yes, not far-right, neo-nazi) party, Goldn Dawn, entering the parliament. The second reason was the rise of SYRIZA, or the Coalition of the Radical Left. SYRIZA, which traditionally received 3-4% of the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=greeceandtheimf.wordpress.com&#038;blog=23497509&#038;post=326&#038;subd=greeceandtheimf&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How short is the &#8220;short-term&#8221;?</title>
		<link>http://greeceandtheimf.wordpress.com/2012/04/26/how-short-is-short-term/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2012 15:34:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today European Central Bank (ECB) chief Mario Draghi speaking at a hearing in the European Parliament urged the Eurozone to continue supporting austerity and “fiscal adjustment”. His comments come after the first round of French presidential elections, where Socialist leader Francois Hollande came first and ahead of the second round of the French elections and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=greeceandtheimf.wordpress.com&#038;blog=23497509&#038;post=323&#038;subd=greeceandtheimf&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Of European solidarity and other demons</title>
		<link>http://greeceandtheimf.wordpress.com/2012/03/13/of-european-solidarity-and-other-deamons/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Mar 2012 18:23:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On 13 March 2012 the Council of the EU ministers adopted a decision suspending €495.2 million in scheduled commitments for Hungary under the EU&#8217;s cohesion fund, to be implemented from January 2013. This was the result of the fact that Hungary did not take enough measures to reduce its budget deficit and meet the target [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=greeceandtheimf.wordpress.com&#038;blog=23497509&#038;post=316&#038;subd=greeceandtheimf&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Eurospeak &#8211; when words are abused and meanings are distorted</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Mar 2012 17:52:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the past two years, the overwhelming majority of the Greek politicians have been using a list of expressions to describe the Greek debt crisis and to support their proposed solutions, i.e. austerity measures and neoliberal policies in exchange for European bail-outs. The new language “Eurospeak” has been promoted by the Greek media and enjoys [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=greeceandtheimf.wordpress.com&#038;blog=23497509&#038;post=313&#038;subd=greeceandtheimf&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Europe&#8217;s elites and their democracy</title>
		<link>http://greeceandtheimf.wordpress.com/2012/03/01/europes-elites-and-their-democracy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Mar 2012 18:19:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The European Union (EU) was never famous for its democratic credentials. Discussion about the EU’s “democratic deficit” began in the 1970s two decades after the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) was established in 1951 and later expanded to the European Economic Community (EEC, 1957). The argument in favour of more democracy at European level [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=greeceandtheimf.wordpress.com&#038;blog=23497509&#038;post=309&#038;subd=greeceandtheimf&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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