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At 11.30 on the evening of 12 June, the TV screens in the Thessaloniki office of the Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation (ERT) went blank. Black. For a few moments there was the silence of shock and disbelief.... Read more
Privatisation and the nature of the state is moving to the centre of the struggle against austerity in Greece. The troika of the three key lenders to Greece – the European Commission, IMF and European Central Bank – is trying to speed up the sell-off of the country’s public goods and resources by putting them in one holding company to be auctioned off in quick succession. The Hellenic Republic... Read more
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As social infrastructure is being slashed throughout most of Europe, spending on weapon systems has hardly been reduced. Perversely, military lobbyists warn of 'disaster' if any further cuts are made to military spending. But the real disaster has emerged from years of high military spending and corrupt arms deals. ... Read more
As social infrastructure is slashed, spending on weapon systems has hardly been reduced. Part one of two essays on military spending and the EU crisis.... Read more
Greece has long had the highest levels of military spending in the EU and Germany has been one of its leading suppliers of military equipment. In 2011, two former managers of the German firm Ferrostaal were convicted in Germany of paying €62 million in bribes in connection with the export of submarines to Portugal and Greece, and Ferrostaal itself was fined €140 million. The former Greek... Read more
Het rapport Guns, Debt and Corruption: Military spending and the EU crisis, samengesteld door Transnational Institute (TI) en de Campagne tegen Wapenhandel (CtW), laat zien hoe militaire uitgaven jarenlang fors zijn gestegen en ondanks de crisis relatief weinig zijn gedaald, in tegenstelling tot sociale uitgaven. De totale militaire uitgaven binnen de EU bedroegen € 194 miljard in 2010, net... Read more
