With Covid and Brexit dominating the news, British readers may not be aware of a conflict brewing in the Eastern Mediterranean between Greece and Turkey. An increasingly aggressive Turkish foreign policy has seen Ankara send its naval forces into (contested) […]
Last week German foreign minister Heiko Maas used the term ‘torture tools’ to describe the hyper-austerity that the Troika (the European Commission, European Central Bank and the IMF) has imposed on Greece for the past decade. Greek Ambassador ad honorem […]
The hyper-austerity that the EU has imposed on Greece since 2010 means that containing Coronavirus while keeping Greek citizens out of destitution is an almost impossible task. Cessation of payments to the EU creditors is the only solution that can […]
Ambassador Leonidas Chrysanthopoulos explains how Brexit offers hope to the Greek people that one day, they too may be able to achieve their independence. The Greeks have suffered greatly at the hands of the EU, which imposed on it an extreme […]
Ambassador Leonidas Chrysanthopoulos will be known to many CIB members for his authoritative accounts of the tragic effects of EU austerity on Greece, not least the resulting humanitarian crisis and spiralling death rate (see for example his memorable speech at our […]
Last week, Eurozone finance ministers offered Greece a 10-year deferral and maturities extension on a large part of past loans as well as 15 billion euros in new credit. This is supposed to ensure Athens can stand on its own […]
