Thirteen
MEPs of the Left and the Greens signed in Brussels a support text for
the continuation of the Truth Committee's work on the Greek Public
Debt, which was set up last year by the former Speaker of the
Hellenic Parliament, Zoe Konstantopoulou.
The signing
of the text was made on the occasion of the manifestation of the
European Left Group (GUE / NLG) in the European Parliament, attended
by more than 120 people, in which the hitherto work of the Committee
was presented. As characteristically been said by the coordinator of
the Truth Committee's work, Éric Toussaint, who was speaker at one
of the two panels of the conference: "I have rarely seen this
room so crowded."
In the
support text it is noted that “recognizing its valuable
contribution and confirming that the audit of public debt serve a
fundamental sovereign right of peoples, which should be followed and
respected by all governments and authorities-institutions, we support
the continuation of work of the Greek Public Debt Truth Committee.”
On Tuesday
(01/03) at a press conference in Brussels after the meeting
"Restructuring of Debt - Rebuilding Democracy" organized by
the European Left Group (GUE / NLG), on the initiative of the MEPs
Sofia Sakorafa, Nikos Chountis and Jean-Luc Mélenchon, the Truth
Committee announced the continuation of its work, in spite of
"sabotage" by the current Speaker of the Hellenic
Parliament, Nikos Voutsis, and by the leadership of SYRIZA.
It has also
announced its transformation into a Union, which will soon open the
General Assembly convergence with the participation of all those who
are interested on the initiative's continuing effort to audit the
Greek public debt, in addition to those who have already supported,
in any way, the work, during the term of office of Mrs.
Konstantopoulou as Speaker of the Hellenic Parliament.
At a press
conference by Sofia Sakorafa, Zoe Konstantopoulou and scientific
coordinator of the Committee's work, Éric Toussaint, it has been
stressed that the members of the Committee, considering the regime of
prosecution and the undermining-extinction of the Committee's work by
the current Speaker of the Hellenic Parliament and the current Greek
government authorities, decided to remain faithful to their duty
towards the Greek people, that is, not to succumb to a violent
termination of Committee's work, but to continue it by any means.
The
operation of domestic [Greek] banks and the ECB will be examined in
the next work of the Truth Committee, while the next meeting has been
scheduled for the early summer in Athens.
The Truth
Committee will investigate how the Greek banking sector has been
transformed since the mid 90's prior to the Greek accession to the
EMU [European Monetary Union]. How with the vehicle of cutting
interest rates after the accession of Greece to the euro, the banks
led the Greek households to indebtedness and the creation of a
financial bubble. How the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008
exacerbated the banking crisis in Greece and how the recent
recapitalization of banks, has benefited scandalously the acquisition
of bank shares by private investors (funds) while blocked Greek
investors because of the power of capital controls.
The findings
of the Truth Committee for Public Debt regarding the Greek banking
system, is expected to be ready for publication in mid-May to early
June. Subsequently it will be published, on the occasion of one year
of the publication of preliminary findings on Greek public debt in
June 2015.
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