Showing posts with label greece. Show all posts
Showing posts with label greece. Show all posts

Tuesday, 30 June 2015

Greek referendum useful academic resources

A sudden referendum to decide whether or not Greece is to accept the bailout conditions proposed by the European Union (EU), the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the European Central Bank (ECB) will take place on 5 July 2015. The referendum was announced by Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras in the early morning of 27 June 2015

for some background try our useful links in the recent posting
is the bailout immoral? 

Voters will be asked whether they approve of the proposal made to Greece by the EU, the IMF and the ECB during the Eurogroup meeting on 25 June. The proposal consists of two documents, titled Reforms for the completion of the Current Program and Beyond and Preliminary Debt sustainability analysis.The question will contain two choices stated as "Those citizens that reject the proposal of the three institutions vote 'Not approved/No'" and "Those citizens that agree with the proposal of the three institutions vote 'Approved/Yes'".

Decision from the Hellenic Parliament in Greek
European Parliament press release relating to the referendum
Speech from Greek Prime minister announcing the referendum. includes English language transcript.

Recent polls in Greek on attitudes towards the Euro.




Commentary
 According to the New Statesman the referendum question makes no sense.
According to the Huffington Post Paul Krugman is urging a no vote.

New York Times
Independent


 Blogs (covering the Greek debt crisis)
 Project Syndicate has commentary from economist Joseph Stiglitz
Greek crisis. Prof. Aristides Hatzis of the University of Athens







 



Thursday, 22 January 2015

Greece elections 2015

Greek elections are coming soon.
 Here are some links which cover their political and economic impact.
The Wall Street Journal explains in a short video why they are important.
The Guardian Datalog has an interesting graph on the politics and economics of the elections.
The Greek Ministry of the Interior has information in English about the system and previous results.
The Greek elections portal coordinated by Dr Giorgos [Gkantzias], Assistant Professor, Department of Cultural Technology and Communication, University Aegean. Provides free access to articles from the Greek Politics Journal, plus election results, maps and analysis

News services.
The following have articles and reports.
Athens News Agency- official Greek government
ERT (Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation) extensive comment, plus video clips, polls and interviews.
Kathimerini affiliated with the International Herald Tribune. English news.
Ethnos
Huffington Post

Commentators
New York Times - analysis of politics and economy of Greece
The Daily Telegraph
The Wall Street Journal blog has commentary on the economic impact also a useful get started guide.
News about Greece from the Guardian.
Economist
Open Democracy discussion from bloggers.
Finally for recent academic discussion and debate see papers and audio, video footage from the LSE Hellenic Observatory. 
plus blog entries.
Aristides Hatzis'Greek Crisis Blog, University of Athens.has useful links to opinion pieces from foreign media and discussion of Greek media sources.