[Kritischestudentenutrecht] Invitation for infonight: "What is really happening in Greece?"

[Sophia Beunder]

*Infonight: "What is really happening in Greece?" Including the documentary
Debtocracy, Greek speakers & open discussion*

*Wednesday 8th June 2011, 19.00 at the bookshop Rooie Rat, Oudegracht 65
Utrecht *

GIO – Griekenland is Overal
Current crisis has mainly developed into a sovereign-debt crisis. This was
caused by the billion of euros spent by governments to bail out the banks
and the financial companies that have heavily invested in ‘toxic’ financial
products in the virtual financial economy. A situation like this has
developed in Greece the last 20 years. On the one hand Greek State (like the
majority of developed states) borrow huge amounts of money to finance the
Greek large companies (e.g. mega projects for the 2004-Olympics that
produced a 5-billion deficit) and the Greek and international military
industry.

As this crisis evolved, the global and domestic financial capital (the
speculators) saw in Greece a great opportunity to make huge loads of money
and the EU saw an opportunity of applying for the first time in the EU a
‘shock-therapy’ of ultra-neoliberal policies. With the full agreement of the
EU, the socialist Papandreou-government transformed the sovereign-debt
problem into a borrowing crisis and presented the EU-IMF 110-billion loan as
the only and ultimate solution in May 2010.

In the Netherlands, Dutch media and government attack with the worst way to
Greek people characterizing them lazy and unproductive, and prone to tax
evasion. In this way, they also justify the less-harsh austerity measures
that are applied in the Netherlands.

To discuss all the aspects of Greek situation and crisis, we organise a
documentary event showing the documentary “Debtocracy” that focuses on the
‘Greek crisis’, which is an independent production by 2 Greek journalists
(one was dismissed from his tv post when it came out). This documentary is
an independent production based on the support of Greek people. The
documentary will be followed by an open discussion on the topic. The initial
speakers will be two Greek people (one living in Greece and one living in
the Netherlands).
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