The completion of Greece’s bailout programmes leaves no room for celebration. Greece has lost a quarter of its GDP from 2008, unemployment is at 20 per cent, one out of three Greeks are below the poverty threshold, youth unemployment affects four out of ten young Greeks. Over 400,000 people have emigrated, including some of the best and brightest. Prolonged austerity…
George Pagoulatos participated in the 3rd Economic Forum of Delphi. See below his speech from the Session: “Greece’s Modernization Process: Visions & New Realities Goals, Tasks, Priorities and Methods to Achieve Political Reform and Modernization of the Economy”
Some observers wonder if those southern eurozone countries that were helped by Mr. Draghi’s activist policies would support Mr. Weidmann’s candidacy. “There will be a discussion that Weidmann represents a very hawkish view and one that would not be to the best interest of the southern economies,” said George Pagoulatos, a professor of European Politics at the Athens University of…