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The supply, drug possession and cultivation of cannabis for personal use are punishable as a misdemeanour with a penalty up to three months imprisonment and a fine of 1.000 euro. The treatment of the drug dependent offender is more lenient and has as its basic starting point the therapeutic approach. The draft law enshrines the right of the drug dependant person to treatment. The therapeutic... Read more
There is widespread agreement on left and right that the EU has failed in its response to the Euro-crisis, that is now taking a heavy toll on the economy, democracy and society of Greece, Ireland and Portugal. However the failure of the European Union to respond either effectively or justly to the Euro crisis is not a recent phenomenon. It reflects their failure to learn the lessons of the... Read more
I have no quarrel with finding the private financial system and its public enforcers culpable in subjecting Greece to the now standard neoliberal straight jacket of fiscal austerity. Nor do I quarrel with the fact that the wealthy in Greece avoid taxes without shame or threat of discovery. Joining them in avoiding their share of the burden of austerity are, of course, Greece’s bondholders,... Read more
Usted se dio a conocer por su trabajo sobre la crisis de la deuda en los años ochenta y noventa. La de entonces, era una crisis de los llamados países en desarrollo, pero ahora parece que está afectando principalmente a los países desarrollados. ¿Cómo lo explica?... Read more
Greece is the first test case of the resilience of the European single currency at a time of crisis. It is a historically established fact that a banking crisis is followed by a steep increase in public debt, due both to the fiscal support given to the banking sector and to the fall in GDP due to the on-setting recession. Although Greece did not have a banking crisis of the magnitude of other... Read more
