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Posts by Yiannis Mouzakis
From MoU exit to Grexit: Where next for Greece?
In September last year, when Alexis Tsipras visited New York to speak at the UN Assembly, he held a meeting with some heavyweights of the international investment community.
Contributors: Nick Malkoutzis, Yiannis Mouzakis
Categories: Politics (385), Economy (329), Greece (496)
Seven years of demanding the impossible in Greece
In a recent presentation of his book, Laid Low, which examines the International Monetary Fund’s role in the euro crisis, author and journalist Paul Blustein disclosed a memo dated May 4, 2010, from the IMF’s then head of research Olivier Blanchard, to its head of the Greek mission at the time, Poul Thomsen.
Contributor: Yiannis Mouzakis
Categories: Europe (281), Economy (329), Greece (496)
The place where sanity goes to die
The laborious attempt made by Eurogroup chief Jeroen Dijsselbloem to answer the last question in Thursday’s press conference regarding Greece’s fiscal targets epitomised the sad state of affairs in the regular gathering of the eurozone finance ministers.
Contributor: Yiannis Mouzakis
Categories: Europe (281), Politics (385), Economy (329), Greece (496)
An unfounded argument leaves Greece in limbo
Often, the decisions taken by the eurozone that shaped the Greek crisis at pivotal moments and sealed the country’s fate were defined by the limitations that the decision makers were facing and not the approach that would have produced the optimal result.
Contributor: Yiannis Mouzakis
Categories: Europe (281), Economy (329), Greece (496)
Greece's pursuit of normality has only one starting point
If you got your hands on a European Commission report that outlined issues of loss of reform momentum, resistance to public sector changes, loss of fiscal discipline, a delayed privatisation programme hampered by strong political opposition and the risk of falling short of fiscal targets agreed in the European Stability Mechanism programme, it is highly probable that the first – perhaps only - country you would think of is Greece.
Contributor: Yiannis Mouzakis
Categories: Europe (281), Economy (329), Greece (496)