Creditors’ new combo “The Troika Four” started inspections in Athens
I have been wondering whether the new Troika which is a Quartet should be called “The Creditors’ Quartet” or “The Troika Four” or just “Greece’s creditors”. The new combo of representatives from...
View ArticleFebruary goes, the Troika comes…
Representatives of Greece’s creditors returned to Athens and they resume talks in an effort to reach an agreement on technical level (staff level agreement) and conclude the second review in no longer...
View ArticleDijsselbloem calls on end of Troika, ESM to be turned into a European IMF
Head of Eurogroup, Jeroen Dijsselbloem decided to launch a revolution. In an interview to a German conservative newspaper, he called on the end of the EU Troika and the mutation of the European...
View ArticleProfessional associations react to ‘open shops on 30 Sundays per year’
Shops in Greece will be open 30 Sundays per year and not just eight as it became custom in the last years of bailout agreements. However, professional associations of workers and employers react to the...
View ArticleGreece’s shopkeepers launch strike to protest law for opening shops 30...
The Hellenic Confederation of Commerce and Entrepreneurship (ESEE) announced it will launch a strike on Sunday, May 7, to protest legislation that will increase the number of Sundays that retail...
View ArticleGerman FM Maas: “Tough austerity and Troika were torture tools”
A clear and cynical confession by the German Foreign Minister Heiko Mass: The strict austerity imposed in Greece, for example, during the economic crisis and the Troika were “torture tools.” In an...
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