"Pakistan sörjer minst 300 personer som sägs ha omkommit på Medelhavet förra veckan. Det är fortsatt svårt att säga exakt hur många som drunknade när en överfylld migrantbåt sjönk utanför Grekland."
Se även https://www.collettiva.it/copertine/internazionale/2023/06/16/podcast/strage-migranti-mai-fatalita-3158675/ : i moltiplicano le testimonianze e i video che confermerebbero l'ipotesi di un colpevole ritardo degli interventi della Guardia costiera greca durante l'affondamento del barcone con a bordo circa 750 migranti al largo delle coste del Peloponneso lo scorso 13 giugno.
"Tämän vuoden aikana noin 72 000 pakolaista ja siirtolaista on YK:n tilaston mukaan tullut Välimeren maihin Italiaan, Espanjaan, Kreikkaan, Maltalle ja Kyprokselle." (HS 14.6.: "Kymmeniä siirtolaisia hukkui matkalla Libyasta Italiaan Kreikka on julistanut kolmen päivän suruajan onnettomuuden vuoksi."
Le scandale de surveillance contre des politiciens, des journalistes et des hommes d’affaires est une « tache » sur la démocratie grecque qui s’élargit chaque semaine, selon Reporters sans frontières. Les autorités grecques doivent enfin agir et l’Europe intervenir.
"The principle of nuclear burden-sharing began to unravel in 2001 when nuclear weapons were withdrawn from Greece. The inactivation of the Munitions Support Squadron at Araxos Air Base was ordered in April 2001 after the withdrawal of the weapons was auth
Friday, Mar 20, 2009 Ceremonies were held today at Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] in Fort Worth, Texas, to commemorate the F-16 Peace Xenia IV program for Greece. The ceremony marks an important production milestone, demonstrating that the program is on sch
"The average volume of worldwide arms transfers for 2005–2009 was 22 per cent higher than the period 2000–2004. [...] Greece remains among the top five largest recipient of major conventional weapons for 2005-2009, but has fallen from third place for 2000
"Of the two threatened implosions, the one symbolized by Greece is easier to solve. It basically only requires that Germany realize that its needs are better met by European protectionism than by German protectionism. The Belgian crisis poses a much more
Turkey's State Minister & chief negotiator for EU talks Egemen Bagis criticized Germany, along with France, for seeking to sell military equipment to Greece while pressing the government in Athens to make drastic public spending cuts as a result of its di
" Enligt uppgifter som tyska statstelevisionen hämtat från Bank of International Settlement, "Centralbankernas bank", så är Grekland skyldig franska banker 92 miljarder euro och tyska banker 43 miljarder euro. Även det amerikanska bankväsendet är invol
Början av december, 2010. "På EU:s toppmöte den 28 oktober uppges Tysklands förbundskansler Angela Merkel ha flaggat för att Tyskland har börjat fundera på att överge EMU. ”Om det här är den klubb som euron verkar utvecklas till kanske Tyskland borde dra
Samassa tilanteessa on Suomi. Vaikka Suomessa ei ole sotalaivateollisuutta, Kreikan uuden tukipaketin myötä suomalaiset osallistuisivat hankintaan laskennallisesti jopa 24 miljoonalla eurolla. Der Spiegel kertoo erikoisesta tilanteesta, joka voi hyvinkin olla valtiovarainministeri Wolfgang Schäublen eilisen Kreikka-toppuuttelun taustalla. Kreikan puolustusvoimat on nimittäin tilaamassa kahdesta neljään raskasta sota-alusta Ranskalta. Tilauksen arvo on vähintään 600 miljoonaa euroa, ja se pitää sisällään mahdollisuuden palauttaa tuote, jos siltä tuntuu. Saksalainen telakka- ja varustamoyhtiö ThyssenKrupp on julkisuudessa hiljaa, mutta Spiegelin tietojen mukaan se käy armotonta lobbaussotaa ranskalaisia kilpailijoitaan vastaan. Kiista on jo saanut poliittisen luonteen, jonka pelätään uhkaavan ensi viikonlopun eurosopua. Eritoten saksalaisyhtiötä kismittää Ranskan tarjoama viiden vuoden maksuaika ja sen jälkeen voimaan astuva optio palauttaa laivat Ranskan merivoimille. Thyssen näkee tässä ranskalaisten juonen tukea omaa telakkateollisuuttaan saksalaisten kustannuksella. Suomi rahoittaisi ostosta laskennallisesti noin 6 miljoonalla eurolla per sotalaiva.
07/05/2010 France and Germany, while publicly urging Greece to make harsh public spending cuts, bullied its government to confirm billions of euros in arms deals, a leading Euro-MP alleged Friday. Franco-German lawmaker Daniel Cohn-Bendit said that Paris and Berlin are seeking to force Prime Minister George Papandreou to spend Greece's scarce cash on submarines, a fleet of warships, helicopters and war planes. "Mr Fillon and Mr Sarkozy told Mr Papandreou: 'We're going to raise the money to help you, but you are going to have to continue to pay the arms contracts that we have with you'," Cohn-Bendit said. "In the past three months we have forced Greece to confirm several billion dollars in arms contracts. French frigates that the Greeks will have to buy for 2.5 billion euros. Helicopters, planes, German submarines."
MN3 is an International Network of Unions and Organizations located and acting in countries around/of the Mediterranean, the Balkans, the Black Sea and Middle East with ultimate goal the transformation of the Mediterranean Sea, the Black Sea, the Balkans and the Middle East into a Zone free from nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction
Europäische Staaten haben 4,6 Billionen Euro Steuergelder riskiert, um Banken zu retten und die Wirtschaft zu stabilisieren. Eine massive Entwertung von privaten Kapitalanlagen konnte so vorerst verhindert werden. Der dadurch bedingte Anstieg der Staatsschulden hat aber die öffentlichen Defizite und damit die Einschnitte in Bildungsbudgets, bei öffentlichen Dienstleitungen und Zukunftsinvestitionen drastisch verschärft. Wir fordern darum die griechische und deutsche Regierung dazu auf, eine Abgabe auf große Privatvermögen einzuführen. Außerdem rufen wir dazu auf, dass unsere Regierungen sich für eine europäische Initiative für eine solche Vermögensabgabe in allen Mitgliedstaaten der EU einsetzen. Gleichzeitig müssen gemeinsame Anstrengungen unternommen werden, Steueroasen auszutrocknen und Steuerflucht zu verhindern, damit die Abgabe fair erhoben werden kann.
By PAUL KRUGMAN Published: October 23, 2011 ...at this point, Greece, where the crisis began, is no more than a grim sideshow. The clear and present danger comes instead from a sort of bank run on Italy, the euro area’s third-largest economy. Investors, fearing a possible default, are demanding high interest rates on Italian debt. And these high interest rates, by raising the burden of debt service, make default more likely.
October 28 is the National Day of Greece. On October 28, 1940 Mussolini asked Greek government to surrender. When the Greeks replied “NO”, Italians invaded the country. Surprisingly, Greek army won the war over the wanna-be Roman Empire of Mussolini. Only after a second German invasion, Greek army collapsed. Every year after the Liberation, on October 28 Greeks celebrate the historic “No” with a huge military parade in Thessaloniki and school parades in all municipalities. But this year’s October 28 was different. All over the country, parades turned to anti-government and anti-austerity demonstrations. People who lost their jobs, students and pupils, “indignados”, professors and teachers, everyday working people with no political background, expressed their anger for the IMF-EU-Greek government austerity plans. They demanded government officials to leave the parades and in many cases politicians were forced to leave.
By Nick Dearden of Jubilee Debt Campaign: "The International Monetary Fund and World Bank lent money to dozens of countries which would otherwise have defaulted, in order to keep the debt repayments flowing back to the banks of the rich world who had created the crisis by their own reckless strategies. Then, those countries, which benefited not at all from these ‘bail-out’ funds, were told to implement structural adjustment policies which saw industry privatised, money freed from government control and markets ripped open to competition with well-subsidised companies from the US and Europe. Poverty boomed, inequality soared and finance was proclaimed king. The same logic lies barely concealed behind the Greece ’bail-out’ being agreed by European finance ministers today. There is not even a pretence that Greece’s people will benefit from these funds.