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At the University of Amsterdam’s Room for Discussion on 21 September

Posted 21 Sep 2017 in Blog
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Alexandros Moutzouridis interviewed me on the crisis in Greece and the future of Europe for To Choni newspaper. Read it here

Posted 26 Mar 2017 in Blog
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Posted 30 Aug 2015 in Blog
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My column for Foreign Policy

Posted 26 Aug 2015 in Blog
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Greece’s former finance minister is being pilloried for doing what needed to be done. My piece for the Guardian

Posted 29 Jul 2015 in Blog
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Posted 26 Jul 2015 in Blog
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Offer Greece debt relief. My column for Foreign Policy

Posted 06 Jul 2015 in Blog
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Interviewed by Dan White

Posted 06 Jul 2015 in Blog
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Chris Giles’s piece on Greece unquestioningly parrots its eurozone creditors’ position. Stop. Little could be further from the truth. Nobody denies Greek governments were profligate. But reckless borrowers require reckless lenders. It is those reckless private creditors who were bailed out by eurozone governments and the International Monetary Fund in 2010: nine of every ten […]

Posted 03 Jul 2015 in Blog
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Posted 30 Jun 2015 in Blog
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My column for CapX

Posted 29 Jun 2015 in Blog
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Posted 29 Jun 2015 in Blog
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My column for Foreign Policy

Posted 28 Jun 2015 in Blog
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In his column for American Prospect, James K. Galbraith writes about my testimony to the Greek Parliament’s Debt Truth Committee

Posted 22 Jun 2015 in Blog
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I was interviewed by Atlantico.fr on the potential consequences of Grexit

Posted 19 Jun 2015 in Blog
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On 11 June I testified about Greek debt and the bailout of Greece’s creditors to the Debt Truth Committee of the Greek Parliament. Watch the video here More coverage here, here and here, and here

Posted 14 Jun 2015 in Blog
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I’m quoted on Greek debt in the French newspaper Libération: «Imaginez que vous êtes en prison pour ne pas avoir payé vos dettes, suggérait vendredi l’économiste Philippe Legrain dans la revue Foreign Policy. Après cinq ans de misère, vous dirigez une rébellion qui prend le contrôle de la prison et vous exigez votre libération. Les gardiens réagissent en vous […]

Posted 14 Jun 2015 in Blog
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Yes, Greece needs reform, but that isn’t the real issue. If the creditors aren’t willing to be reasonable, default – even euro exit – is preferable to debt bondage. My latest column for Foreign Policy

Posted 12 Jun 2015 in Blog
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On 7 June I was interviewed about the crisis in the eurozone, Greece, Germany, the Dutch economy on Buitenhof, a leading political TV programme in the Netherlands. Watch here. Starts at 22nd minute, for 18 minutes

Posted 07 Jun 2015 in Blog
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I was interviewed by Hernán Garcés for the Spanish magazine Alternativas Económicas

Posted 03 May 2015 in Blog