Tag: Euro crisis

  • GUE/NGL

    GUE/NGL blocks financial lobbyist Hill

    Pressemitteilung der Fraktion GUE/NGL im Europaparlament

    After an unsatisfying performance at the 3-hour hearing of EU Commissioner-designate Jonathan Hill, GUE/NGL MEPs asked for a vote on his designation.
  • GUE/NGL

    GUE/NGL MEPs express solidarity with Argentina in its battle with criminal speculators

    Pressemitteilung der Fraktion GUE/NGL im Europaparlament

    GUE/NGL calls on the EU to act against the vulture funds that are attacking Argentine today. In a recent decision, the United States Supreme Court decided to refuse to review the dispute between Argentina and a minority of the so called holdouts. Those holdouts are also known as “vulture funds” due to their strategy to acquire defaulted sovereign debt issues at a very low price, only to later demand the totality of the payment via a judicial process. Many of them are anonymous stakeholders acting from fiscal paradises.
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