Tag: ECB

  • DW: Coronavirus and the EU – The nation versus the union?

    EU member states are pressing ahead with unilateral measures to stop the spread of coronavirus — and the bloc is no longer sitting in the driver's seat. Cooperation looks different in an era of pandemic. A press review with Fabio De Masi

    EU member states are pressing ahead with unilateral measures to stop the spread of coronavirus — and the bloc is no longer sitting in the driver's seat. Cooperation looks different in an era of pandemic. A press review with Fabio De Masi

  • De Masi/Varoufakis vs. European Central Bank

    De Masi and Varoufakis submit legal challenge to the ruling of the General Court of the European Union

    De Masi and Varoufakis submit legal challenge to the ruling of the General Court of the European Union

  • We want answers!

    A press review featuring Fabio De Masi

    A press review featuring Fabio De Masi

  • The ECB: EU's 'bad bank' (for its employees)

    In the past few years, one institution has taken centre stage in the economic battle: the Frankfurt-based European Central Bank (ECB). A press review featuring Fabio De Masi

    In the past few years, one institution has taken centre stage in the economic battle: the Frankfurt-based European Central Bank (ECB). A press review featuring Fabio De Masi

  • Press review: Open the blackbox ECB

    The press reported about the campain of Fabio De Masi and Yanis Varoufakis to open the blackbox ECB

    The European Central Bank blackmailed Greece into a 3rd bailout and more defeating austerity by shutting Greek banks off from the euro. Fabio De Masi launched a campaign with the former Greek minister of finance Yanis Varoufakis and eminent US economists such as James Galbraith and Jeffrey Sachs to force Mr ...
  • 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 ...

  • Yanis Varoufakis/Fabio De Masi: Time to open the ECB black box

    A press release of Fabio De Masi

    Yanis Varoufakis (former Greek Minister of Finance and co-founder of DiEM25) & Fabio De Masi (Member of European Parliament, DIE LINKE –GUE/NGL), supported by citizens from across Europe, Members of national parliaments and European Parliament as well as prominent academics to launch mass freedom of information request to the European Central Bank (ECB) ...

  • All is not well in the eurozone Mr. Draghi

    A press release of Fabio De Masi

    GUE/NGL MEPs gave the President of the European Central Bank a tough time in Strasbourg during a debate on the euro zone’s unbalanced and meagre growth. In addition, low inflation rates and a lack of investment in the real economy were also discussed at the plenary with Mario Draghi. Fabio De Masi, ...

  • ECB urged to lavish ‘helicopter money’ on consumers

    The Financial Times reported about the debate of helicopter money

    Financial Times, 16.06.2016 "[...] Fabio De Masi, a German lawmaker from the Die Linke party, who has been pushing the ECB for months to consider alternative policy options, said that quantitative easing combined with austerity “will only inflate asset bubbles as nobody invests despite ultra-low interest rates ...

  • Der Einfluss der EZB bei den G30

    Der Wirtschaftsjournalist Norbert Häring vom Handelsblatt im Interview mit dem irischen Radiosender Newstalk

    Der Journalist Norbert Häring, Wirtschaftskorrespondent im Handelsblatt spricht im Interview mit dem irischen Radiosender Newstalk über den Einfluss der EZB auf die Group of Thirty  vom Handelsblatt. Am Ende des Interviews findet auch die Arbeit von Fabio De Masi Erwähnung. Zum Interview ...