Philippe Legrain

I debated Greece’s debt crisis on CCTV America with Volker Stanzel, a German diplomat and former German ambassador to China and Japan, and Yannis Koutsomitis, a Greek journalist.

I was interviewed on BBC World Service about Greece and the ECB in the aftermath of the Eurogroup meeting in Riga on 24 April. It was very early and I was barely awake! Starts around the 31st minute.

I spent the weekend in the Irish city of Limerick, where a wonderful group of citizen activists organised Limerick Spring, to encourage others to become politically active and change Ireland – and Europe – for the better. Thank you for inviting me. While I was there I was interviewed by the Irish Times on Greece’s […]

My latest column for Foreign Policy

My article for the Greek newspaper Kathimerini on why Greece needs debt relief

I was interviewed about this for Euractiv Greece

I was interviewed on Share Radio about the growing political backlash against Merkelism across the eurozone

Syrizas linje ett nödvändigt steg mot den skuldlättnad Grekland behöver. Why Greece needs debt relief. My op-ed for Svenska Dagbladet

From Greece to Spain to France, radical parties are making gains. And the Eurocrats have no one to blame but themselves. My latest column for Foreign Policy

I’m quoted by Claire Jones in the FT in her piece on whether the ECB might pull the plug on Greece. “This is a game of chicken. The ECB is clearly applying pressure on Greece,” said Philippe Legrain, a visiting senior fellow at the London School of Economics’ European Institute. “I’d be very surprised if […]

with Sebastian Dullien, a senior policy fellow at European Council on Foreign Relations, and Nick Malkoutzis, the deputy editor Kathimerini English, Greece’s only English-language daily newspaper. Watch it here  

I was interviewed by Colm O Mongain on Ireland’s RTE1 This Week about the moral, economic and political case for Greek debt relief  

My letter to the FT

I was interviewed on Share Radio about the consequences of Syriza’s victory in Greece

My article on eurozone QE and Greece for CapX

I was interviewed in the Wall Street Journal by Stephen Fidler on why, contrary to what eurozone authorities claim, Greece needs debt relief “Of course they are going to say that,” said Philippe Legrain, a former economic adviser to the European Commission. Mr. Legrain says Greece should have been given debt relief back in 2010 instead […]

Foreign Policy, 8 January 2015. You don’t have to be a radical leftist to get that Athens needs debt relief. And a Syriza victory in this month’s elections might be the only way to get it.

You don’t have to be a radical leftist to get that Athens needs debt relief. And a Syriza victory in this month’s elections might be the only way to get it. My column for Foreign Policy

I was interviewed by The Press Project on Syriza’s economic programme for Greece. I said: While there is much in Syriza’s programme that I don’t agree with, Alex Tsipras is right that Greece needs debt relief in order to recover and that the country should not be bled dry to pay off its foreign creditors. […]

I was interviewed on Share Radio on 12 January