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Liberate Greece from its elites

The emergency aid under consideration by Eurozone countries does not amount to a sustainable solution to the Greek crisis, argues economist Rens van Tilburg. We will first have to break the grip on power maintained by the country’s elites, whose privileges remain an obstacle to the fair distribution of economic sacrifices.

4 October 2011

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De Volkskrant Amsterdam
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You'd rather see China or Russia leading?

The euro crisis and enduring political divisions between Europeans have undermined the Old Continent’s standing in a globalised world. It’s time to save the European way, urges Venezuelan columnist Moisés Naim: the alternatives – US hegemony, Chinese capitalist communism or Russian autocracy – are far worse.

20 December 2010

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El País Madrid

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To imagine that we need economists debating is a failure see that they have been useless in foreseeing the crisis, and will be useless in helping us get out of it. What we need is political courage. And political responsibility.

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For anyone following Presseurop's forum, he will notice that the one thing Europeans agree on is their total disagreement on what Europe should be and what it should do.

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You'd rather see China or Russia leading?