L’Allemagne, de son côté, continue d’exiger la présence du FMI dans ce troisième plan, tout en renvoyant un règlement de fond sur la dette à l’après-élections législatives allemandes de l’automne 2017. « Le gouvernement grec n’a pas beaucoup de marge de manœuvre car l’économie grecque reste très fragile, elle ne pourra pas supporter des mois d’incertitude, affirme l’économiste grec Georges Pagoulatos.…
Despite the setbacks, Mr. Tsipras can’t be written off, says George Pagoulatos, professor of European political economy at the Athens University of Economics and Business, and a prominent critic of the government. “The majority of people have decided that Tsipras has failed, and that he lied to them. But as an individual, he’s viewed as more like them, with his…
"There is a clear need for southern EU states to coordinate their position in order to counterbalance the Visegrad bloc," says analyst George Pagoulatos. Even so, Friday's meeting is unlikely to bang the austerity revision drum too loudly to avoid antagonising Berlin, which has otherwise proven very sympathetic to southern states on migration, Pagoulatos notes."Germany is favourable to coordination on…
" He is undoubtedly a successful politician,” says George Pagoulatos, professor of European politics and economy at the Athens University of Economics and one of Syriza’s most vocal critics. “His political positioning aside, he took a party from 4 percent [into] government, winning elections and referendums. And he won in September 2015, running on the opposite platform [than he did…
“There is nothing more unpredictable than the past,” experts on Soviet-era methods used to say. Government has the means to elevate its story into official history. It can create scapegoats to deflect attention from the real culprits. It can devise diversions and fictitious conspiracies. It can propagate hearsay, which with the help of unscrupulous media will become “news,” and with…