Anytime taxes rise, anywhere on the planet, dark prophets of doom predict a self-defeating failure.
Anytime taxes rise, anywhere on the planet, dark prophets of doom predict a self-defeating failure.
The deepest harm inflicted on Greece by the European Union, among the many benefits, is probably that it has maintained a large agricultural sector.
On Friday, Ireland goes to the polls in the first general election since 2011. Voters now ask what lessons can be learned from the crisis years both at home and abroad.
Recently the debate about changing the electoral system was revived following a proposal by small centrist opposition party To Potami to adopt the German electoral system.
During the Greek debt crisis, Greek and European politicians have often referred to an “alternative” public policy mix that could enhance growth and reduce debt accumulation.
Golden Dawn is a neo-Nazi party. In our book, we show why: not because of the party’s past use of Nazi paraphernalia, but rather because its ideology and organizational structures fulfill the criteria of what constitutes a neo-Nazi group.
The state of the economy has always been a pivotal issue in electoral campaigns. Political commentators, spin doctors and journalists tend to agree with former US president Bill Clinton’s 1992 slogan: “It’s the economy, stupid [… that wins elections].”
On September 27, citizens of the Spanish autonomous region of Catalonia were called to vote for the composition of the new regional parliament.
It was the third public vote this year in Greece and, once again, not only did left-wing SYRIZA win big, but its victory was a most extraordinary one.
Perhaps one of the most notable outcomes of the September 20 parliamentary elections in Greece is the remarkable resilience of the far-right Golden Dawn party, which managed to score some gains despite officially being charged as a criminal organization.
After Alexis Tsipras’s resignation as prime minister on August 20, I was certain that he simply did not want to carry through the reforms he signed and decided to retire from government.
Greece has been attracting enormous attention in recent years due to its frail economic situation and the diverging opinions as to how to deal with it.
Peripheral Vision is a joint effort by economists, political scientists, and other social scientists to explain, inform, disaggregate, theorize, and speculate about political and economic events unfolding in Greece and Europe.