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Euro Hits 11yr Low After ‘Anti-Austerity’ Syriza Election Win
The election result in Greece has pushed the euro to an 11yr low, falling below €1.11 to the dollar for the first time since 2003. Investors soured as anti-austerity party Syriza won a majority promising to renegotiate Greek debt and end austerity. Shared by Greece and 18 other eurozone members, the euro fell 8.94 percent … Continue reading
Greece Swears In Syriza Leader As Prime Minister
Alexis Tsipras has been sworn in as Greece’s prime minister after his antiausterity Syriza party won January 25 parliamentary polls. Earlier on January 26, Tsipras’s leftist party struck a deal with a right-wing populist party, the Independent Greeks, to form a government after Syriza fell just short of the majority needed to govern alone. The … Continue reading
Syriza’s Victory In Greece To Add Instability To European Economy – OpEd
By Ylli Përmeti SYRIZA’s victory can be attributed almost completely to the conditions created in Greece in the last five years or so, mainly by the Right-wing coalition in Greece. But, while the Right-wing coalition used ‘fear’ during these years, if not (trans) national terrorism,[1] upon the population, the “Left”-wing coalition of SYRIZA, created the … Continue reading
Radical Leftists Win Election In Greece – Future Of Eurozone In Serious Jeopardy – OpEd
By Michael Snyder Radical leftists have been catapulted to power in Greece, and that means that the European financial crisis has just entered a dangerous new phase. Syriza, which is actually an acronym for “Coalition of the Radical Left” in Greek, has 36 percent of the total vote with approximately 80 percent of the polling … Continue reading
Greece’s Anti-Austerity Syriza Party Officially Wins Parliamentary Elections
Greece’s radical leftist party, Syriza, has won the country’s parliamentary electiona, claiming 35.11 percent of the vote, and leaving the ruling New Democracy party in second place with 29.22 percent, according to the first official results. The exit-polls earlier revealed that Syriza, has won between 35.5 and 39.5 percent of the vote in the national … Continue reading
Greek Anti-Austerity Party Syriza Leads Exit Polls With 35.5% To 39.5% Of Vote
Greece’s radical-leftist party, Syriza, has won between 35.5 and 39.5 percent of the vote in the national parliamentary election, leaving the country’s ruling New Democracy party more than 10 per cent behind, the exit-polls revealed. The New Democracy party, led by Greek Prime Minister, Antonis Samaras, has received between 23 and 27 percent of the … Continue reading
Global Finance And The Greek Elections: The Political Establishment’s Worst Nightmares
By Ernst Wolff With the Greek elections only days away, the governments and the media of the European Union have once again stepped up their campaign of threatening the Greek people and stirring up anti-Greek sentiments. While the IMF has shown its contempt for democratic elections by suspending all payments to Athens, the German government … Continue reading
What If SYRIZA Took The EU At Its Word And Audited Greek Debt? – OpEd
By Eric Toussaint Since the announcement that elections will be held in Greece on 25 January 2015, the prospect that they be won by SYRIZA has been presented as a menace to international public opinion and in particular, as a threat to the Eurozone. Yet those who are sounding the alarm are fully aware that SYRIZA … Continue reading
Greece Ready To Say Goodbye To Euro? – OpEd
By Ellen Brown Greece and the troika (the International Monetary Fund, the EU, and the European Central Bank) are in a dangerous game of chicken. The Greeks have been threatened with a “Cyprus-Style prolonged bank holiday” if they “vote wrong.” But they have been bullied for too long and are saying “no more.” A return … Continue reading
Looming Greek Elections Threaten To Re-Ignite The Euro Crisis
By Edward Hugh If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again…… aka third time unlucky. The Euro crisis has all the signs of being back amongst us, and this time it may be here to stay. After two earlier false alerts – one in July around the collapse of the Portuguese Banco Espirito Santo, and … Continue reading
