Eurozone

In October 2018, I attended the opening of a criminal trial in Thessaloniki Greece against 21 environmental defenders who had resisted the open-pit gold mine of Canadian miner Eldorado Gold. The [...]

For the Real News, I speak to Dr. Jonathan Latham about the European Parliament’s historic decision to adopt a broad ban on single-use plastics. As Dr. Latham explains in our interview, the [...]

On my recent trip to Greece, I travelled to the Halkidiki region of northern Greece to see the Skouries open pit gold mine of Canadian miner Eldorado Gold. Standing at the edge of the mine, I [...]

Eldorado Gold’s Skouries mine, situated in a pristine forest in the Halkidiki region of Greece, is, in many ways, a case study in how Canadian extractive corporations enrich their executives and [...]

This week, the Greek government of Alexis Tsipras announced with great fanfare that Greece had exited its bailout and that it had regained, finally, the freedom to pursue its own economic and [...]

For The Real News, I speak to Greek filmmaker and journalist Aris Chatzistefanou about austerity’s role in the devastation caused by wildfires near Athens last month. According to Aris, the [...]

For The Real News, I speak to Professor Aristides Baltas, a former member of the Syriza cabinet in Greece. Professor Baltas talks about his experience in Greek politics, Greece’s [...]

For The Real News, I speak with with Giorgos Gogos, general Secretary of the Dockworkers Union at the Port of Piraeus in Greece. As Giorgos explains, the Troika of Greece’s creditors forced [...]

For the Real News, I speak with Professor John Milios, the former Chief Economic Adviser of Syriza, about Greek government claims that Greece’s economy has begun to recover from the ravages [...]

For The Real News Network, I speak with the former Deputy Defence Minister of Greece, Costas Isychos, about Greece’s massive military spending and its government’s remarkable [...]