Hellenic Parliament of Greece – Photo (Wiki), English: The Hellenic Parliament building in Athens. 5 February 2007, (originally posted to Flickr as Love the clouds over the mountains) Author: @ Gerard McGovern -http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hellenic_Parliament_from_high_above.jpg The World Socialist Web Site discussed with workers and youth in Athens the result of the Greek general election. – Ioanna [...]
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Deutsche Bank HQ – Photo (Wiki), Twintowers of Deutsche Bank Headquarter in Frankfurt a.M. on a sunny summer day. Seen from the Maintower building. Author: Jürgen Matern – Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Twintowers_of_Deutsche_Bank_Headquarter_in_Frankfurt_a.M..jpg Spanish Austerity Savage to the Point of Sadism, by Conn Hallinan, Common Dreams – The main points in Hallinan’s article are the following: * [...]
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Photo: (Wiki). Department of Foreign Affairs, Dublin. Author: Jnestorius. w:Iveagh House, 80-81 w:St Stephen’s Green [South], Dublin 2: Headquarters of the w:Irish Department of Foreign Affairs – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Iveagh_House_morning.jpg Irish Times – European officials are examining a new revision of the EU treaties to create a “fiscal union” in which member states would transfer another [...]
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Government Building, Dublin. Photo: (Wiki) – Government Buildings, Dublin, Ireland, by Mike Peel, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Government_Buildings,_Dublin.jpg – 12th August 2005, Photograph by Mike Peel (www.mikepeel.net). Irish Times – The German Chancellor has “warned” (RTE News) that her country’s financial strength should not be overestimated by those who believe German money can solve every problem. Angela Merkel [...]
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Angela Merkel Photo: Wiki – Angela Merkel, Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany, chairperson of the CDU by Armin Linnartz http://www.cducsu.de/WebUserControls/ShowPicture.aspx?picid=3512&type=3 image / http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:AM_Juli_2010_-_3zu4.jpg Irish Times – “Chancellor Angela Merkel rejected pressure today for Germany to underwrite debt or guarantee bank deposits in the euro zone as Spain’s soaring borrowing costs raised new [...]
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Temple of Hephaestus. Photo by Scott Ware. Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Temple_of_Hephaestus.jpg World Socialist Website: “Under the title “Europe’s Shame,” the 84-year-old author devotes twelve stanzas, each with two verses, to castigating the European elites for their treatment of Greece. Written in ancient Greek metrics, the poem portrays the manner in which the finance markets and European [...]
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World Socialist Website – “According to a report in the news magazine Der Spiegel, the chancellery in Berlin has drawn up a six-point plan for far-reaching “structural reforms” in Greece and other highly indebted European Union countries. The plan includes the sale of state enterprises, the gutting of employment protection rights, the promotion of [...]
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Written by Foras Teamhrach
Source – World Socialist Website (WSWS): French President Nicolas Sarkozy has pledged to implement a severe austerity program should he win another term in next month’s election. He announced his intention of saving €53 billion primarily through mass layoffs in the public sector and cuts in health care. His opponent, Socialist Party candidate François Hollande, [...]
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“The number of temporary contract workers at automaker BMW’s Leipzig plant has steadily increased over recent years. Currently there are more than 1,100 workers on temporary contracts working alongside 2,800 permanent staff, whose pay averages €1,000 (US$1,340) per month less than their permanent colleagues. Under pressure from the workforce, the works council filed a [...]
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The hero of Greece‘s anti-Nazi resistance movement, Manolis Glezos, has appealed to anti-capitalist protesters to "overturn a rotten system". Glezos said his nation had become a "guinea pig" for austerity measures to which no country was immune. "We have become the guinea pig of policies exacted by governments whose only God is money," said [...]
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