1,000 Refugees Arriving Weekly on Greek Beaches; 77,000 Have Arrived so far This Year
GENEVA, July 10 (UNHCR) – On average 1,000 refugees are now arriving on the Greek islands every day creating an unprecedented emergency for Greece and other countries, the UN refugee agency reported on Friday (July 10). The United Nations High Commission on Refugees said that since the beginning of the year, a staggering 77,100 people […]
Listen to the Complete First Post Resignation Interview of Yanis Varoufakis from ABC Australia Radio
“The project of a European democracy, of a united European democratic union, has just suffered a major catastrophe,” said ex-Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis to Late Night Live on ABC Radio in Australia. LINK AT END OF ARTICLE TO LISTEN TO COMPLETE INTERVIEW. In his first interview since resigning as Greek finance minister, Yanis Varoufakis […]
Varoufakis Comes Out Swinging in First Interview Since Resignation: Accuses Europeans of “Complete Lack of Any Democratic Scruples”
In his first interview since resigning, Greece’s former Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis told The New Statesman that the Eurogroup is “completely and utterly” controlled by Germany, Greece was “set up” and last week’s referendum was wasted. The complete transcript from the interview in The New Statesman: Note: This conversation took place before the deal. Harry Lambert: So how […]
Can He Become One of 100? Former U.S. Attorney General Aide, Chrysovalantis Kefalas, Vying To Become Only Greek-American U.S. Senator
Chrysovalantis Kefalas, a son and grandson of immigrants from the Dodecanese islands, has faced uphill battles before and successfully overcome them for himself, the people of Maryland and the United States, as previously chronicled by The Pappas Post. Now the former speechwriter to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, Deputy Legal Counsel to Republican Governor Robert […]
French-German Divide Grows as EuroSummit was “Acrimonious and Violent Debate” Between Two Sides in Greek Negotiations
Michael Ivanovitch is president of MSI Global, a New York-based economic research company. He also served as a senior economist at the OECD in Paris, international economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and taught economics at Columbia. His opinion piece about the growing German-French divide is here: Staring at a disaster of […]
Sydney Morning Herald: The Greeks Invented Narcissism, and it has Caught up With Them
Paul Sheehan is a columnist and editorial writer for The Sydney Morning Herald, where he has has been Day Editor and Washington correspondent. His position, below, is that the Greeks have been arrogant and he argues that the ancient story of Narcissus is playing out in modern Greece. Read his opinion piece below: Narcissus was […]
Suzanne Moore: The Euro ‘Family’ has Shown it is Capable of Real Cruelty
British award winning columnist for The Guardian has come out swinging, calling the European creditor’s response to Greece “cruel.” Her complete opinion in The Guardian is below: The seemingly indestructible Angela Merkel can go without sleep, and still manage a half smile and speak about Greece’s wish to remain in “the euro family”. This may […]
Greece and Creditors Reach Deal After 17-Hour Emergency Meetings
“The most intrusive economic supervision programme ever mounted in the EU” is what the Financial Times called it after European leaders reached a deal to keep Greece in the eurozone and prevent the country from collapsing. Following intense, 17-hour-long negotiations, Greek prime minister Alexis Tsipras conceded to massive reforms and tax increases in exchange for […]
EU Leaders Press Conference Streaming Live
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#ThisIsACoup Trending Globally on Twitter as Hundreds of Thousands Take to Twitter to Urge Alexis Tsipras to Leave EU Summit
Fury has erupted on Twitter as tens of thousands of social media users are encouraging Greek prime minister Alexis Tsipras to leave the summit of European leaders. “ThisIsACoup is a hashtag started by Twitter users online, claiming that Europe’s ultimate goal in Greece is regime change and the pressure Europeans were exerting on Tsipras was […]
