Tag: Blackbox

  • Video

    ‘Open the ECB’s Black Box’ say Varoufakis and De Masi

    Yanis Varoufakis and Fabio De Masi in Interview with Brian Maguire from Euractiv

    Greece’s economy suffered a new blow, contracting by 1.2% at the end of 2016, according to revised figures released earlier this week. The figures, published by the Greek statistics agency, Elstat, show it was the worst quarter since the summer of 2015, when the European Central Bank closed the Greek banks ...

  • Yanis Varoufakis & Fabio De Masi: Open the ECB black box

    A press release of Fabio De Masi

    In June 2015, the European Central Bank (ECB) closed the Greek banks as part of the Troika campaign to force a 3rd ‘bailout’ on Greece, with new austerity measures and significant losses of national sovereignty. Was this legal and within the ECB’s charter and mandate? Or was there a conflict of interest ...