Editor’s Note (Ralph Turchiano) Re-Post Request for cross reference HSBC and Panama files. Original Post date 28 October 2012 Engineering Evil : Authenticity Still Requires further verification Being on a List does not imply guilt Current Source Info: Zougla Keep Talking Greece “Clicking on each image will open an […]
(People’s Daily Online) 09:19, June 17, 2014 The International Monetary Fund’s headquarters may one day move from Washington to Beijing, aligning with China’s growing influence in the world economy, the fund’s managing director Christine Lagarde said early this month. Attaching importance to China Christine Lagarde made the statement […]
As matters stand, the next recession will push the Western economic system over the edge into deflation It is a remarkable state of affairs that the G2 monetary superpowers – the US and China – should both be tightening Photo: Reuters <!– remove the whitespace added by escenic […]
Tuesday, 16 July 2013 Hungary has announced plans to repay its bailout loan from the International Monetary Fund early and asked the organization to leave the country. The head of Hungary’s Central Bank Gyorgy Matolcsy wrote a letter to IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde on Monday asking […]
Source: Reuters – Tue, 16 Jul 2013 12:51 AM Author: Reuters ATHENS, July 16 (Reuters) – Greek lawmakers voted early on Tuesday in favour of pressing criminal charges against former finance minister George Papaconstantinou in a scandal over a list of potential tax evaders that sparked outrage among […]
12 Jun 2013 PARIS (AFP) Stephane Richard, the head of telecoms company Orange and a former aide to IMF chief Christine Lagarde, was charged Wednesday in a corruption probe related to Lagarde’s time as France’s finance minister. In a development likely to be seen as further […]
Christine Lagarde Photo: EPA International Monetary Fund (IMF) chief Christine Lagarde is due to appear before magistrates in France investigating her role in a large payout to a businessman and politician following a dispute, a court spokesman said. The 57-year-old is suspected of arranging arbitration that led to […]
The eurozone crisis threatens to flare up again this week after Portugal’s constitutional court blocked the country’s planned austerity programme. Portugal’s Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho addresses the nation from his official residence at Sao Bento palace in Lisbon on Sunday. Photo: EPA By Philip Aldrick, Economics editor […]
Cahuzac, Lagarde and other dubious affairs overshadow Hollande 04 April, 12:25 (ANSAmed) – PARIS, APRIL 4 – After less than a year in power, the Socialist presidency of Francois Hollande, which was hailed as an antidote to the scandal-ridden right-wing administrations that preceded it, is itself tarnished by […]
Published on March 26, 2013 SOURCES with access to the Presidential Palace have confirmed that President Nicos Anastasiades at one stage did threaten to resign during tense negotiations with international lenders on Monday morning. Initial reports had Anastasiades telling International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde: “I table one […]
TIMELINE: Bailout deal reached Published on March 24, 2013 President Nicos Anastasiades in Brussels UPDATED 2.58am Cyprus and international lenders reached a draft deal in the early hours of this morning, which had to be approved by the Eurogroup. Details of the deal were sketchy but […]
Investigation concerns the payment of almost €400m in state compensation to a disgraced French tycoon John Lichfield Wednesday, 20 March 2013 French magistates and anti-fraud police have raided the Paris home of the International Monetary Foundation (IMF) chief, Christine Lagarde, as part of an investigation into […]
Cypriots rush to ATMs before savings are docked as part of a bailout deal agreed in Brussels Paul Gallagher and Helena Smith guardian.co.uk, Saturday 16 March 2013 15.14 EDT Cyprus’s rightwing leader Nicos Anastasiades believes his country will default following the move, and threaten to unravel investor confidence […]
Top official at China’s £300bn sovereign wealth fund said that the depth of public anger in the eurozone could lead to a ‘complete discarding’ of austerity programmes Tania Branigan in Beijing and Graeme Wearden guardian.co.uk, Friday 16 November 2012 13.44 EST Activists dressed as zombies stage a […]
Published November 01, 2012 | Associated Press ATHENS, Greece – A magazine publisher was acquitted on Thursday of breaching privacy laws by printing a list allegedly naming Greeks with bank accounts in Switzerland. The list has touched off a fierce debate in the nearly bankrupt country […]
Critics say prosecution over a list of Swiss bank account holders reflects deeper erosion of individual freedoms. Barry NeildOctober 31, 2012 08:23 Some believe Kostas Vaxevanis’s arrest will hurt Greece’s reputation in the eyes of its international creditors. (Costas Metaxakis/AFP/Getty Images) What do you think? LONDON, UK — […]
Greek journalists strike over suspension of presenters By Renee MaltezouPosted 2012/10/30 at 8:56 am EDT ATHENS, Oct. 30, 2012 (Reuters) — Greek state television journalists accused the government of censorship and began a series of work stoppages on Tuesday after two well-known presenters were suspended for criticizing a […]
Kostas Vaxevanis, editor of Hot Docs, was giving a radio interview in Athens when officers stormed into the studio saying he had to go ‘to be arrested’ Today, as he appeared in court, Greek daily Ta Nea reprinted the list across ten of its pages in possible act […]
Link to the : The “Lagarde List” Just the names Posted by keeptalkinggreece in Politics Monthly magazine HOT DOC managed the impossible: To get what it seems to be the content of the long-missing and infamous Lagarde-list containing the names of 2,059 Greeks who had an account in […]
Update: The ” Lagarde List ” Linked Here October 27, 2012 By RACHEL DONADIO and LIZ ALDERMAN ATHENS — The speaker of the Greek Parliament, several employees of the Finance Ministry and a number of business leaders are on a list of more than 2,000 Greeks said to […]
Posted 2012/10/27 at 7:47 pm EDT ATHENS, Oct. 27, 2012 (Reuters) — Greek police are seeking to arrest the editor of a weekly magazine for publishing a list of more than 2,000 names of wealthy Greeks who have placed money in Swiss bank accounts, police said on Saturday. […]
The International Monetary Fund has demolished the intellectual foundations of Europe’s debt crisis strategy. A demonstration against austerity measures near the Spanish Parliament. Photo: AP By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard 4:52PM BST 14 Oct 2012 Drastic fiscal tightening in a string of interlinked countries does two to three times […]
Finance leaders back EU, U.S. to-do list to shield growth Sat, Oct 13 2012 By Anna Yukhananov and Tetsushi Kajimoto TOKYO (Reuters) – World finance leaders on Saturday endorsed a checklist of policy reforms aimed at pressuring Europe and the United States to tackle debt troubles that threaten […]
News On Japan via Japan Times — Oct 13 Cutting public debt while encouraging economic growth will be vital in stabilizing the global economy, which is showing a slower than expected recovery, International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde said Friday. Speaking at the annual plenary […]
Desperate Spaniards are fleeing in their thousands to set up new lives in Argentina, preferring rampant inflation to the prospect of searching for a job in a country with the highest unemployment rate in the industrialised world. Thousands in Spain took to the streets last week to protest […]
