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Greece has no constitutional ‘Golden Rule’ or debt ‘break’/’cealing’. Hence, implementation of this provision is democratically and legally questionable.
Συνεπώς, η Ελληνική κυβέρνηση δεν δύναται να αντιμετωπίζει ως επιλογή το αίτημα προς το ΔΝΤ, το οποίο είχε ήδη από το 2012 καταστεί νομική υποχρέωση. Παρά ταύτα, στην περίπτωση που το ΔΝΤ απορρίψει το αίτημα της Ελλάδας, τότε το πρόγραμμα του ΕΜΣ δύναται και να υπάρξει μόνο του.
The legal provisions do not not commit the IMF to accepting the request of the Eurozone Member State concerned; in this case Greece. However, on the EU’s side, it seems necessary for a Eurozone Member State that receives financial assistance through the ESM to request similar assistance from the IMF. In either case, Greece already […]
The collapse of solidarity in Europe is threatening to break the union into pieces. If Europe’s politicians don’t start focusing their attention on coming up with an argument to explain how Europeans are all in this together, why they need to work with one-another, and where this great project is going, then they will have […]
Overall, a contradiction between the founding democratic principles of the EU and its new operational structure during the crisis has left the quality of the EU’s democratic order adversely affected. In the spirit of Aristotle’s criterion, then, the EU’s political system of governance does not any longer seem to adhere to the organisation’s principles.
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