Athens, May 9, 2016/Independent Balkan News Agency
By Spiros Sideris
Dozens of intellectuals, politicians, journalists and trade unionists from around the world are calling on the leaders of the major countries of the European Union, to the competent European institutions, as well as those conducting the negotiations, do make a turn so that the tranches of loans are given to Greece and no new measures are imposed, to give humanitarian aid and have a restructuring of the greek debt this year.
“It is about to prevent the suffocation of Greece and its democratically elected government, under pressure constant debt service claims by negotiators”, as they write characteristically.
“The disastrous humanitarian situation in Greece has long been known.Add to this the exceptional loads, carrying the Greek population with the reception and care of fugitives. In this situation, Greece needs real support its European neighbors and no additional austerity measures. Time is short: In order at all can be a policy of crisis management in Greece, immediate steps are essential. You have it in your hands to prevent the collapse of political action in Greece… After years of privation and economic collapse now more austerity to demand is politically blind to reality, not economically justified and can not be expected of the Greek population”, they add.
The letter was first published by the german financial oxiblog.de reflection magazine, in the website of which is published full text.
“Because time is short”, the signatories ask with this letter, primarily from David Cameron, Francois Hollande, Angela Merkel and Matteo Renzi, but also institutions, to take immediate measures to address the crisis in Greece.
Specifically, they call for “all previously agreed rate of credit extended to Greece are scheduled to be paid to ensure debt service and no claims are made more for new austerity measures” and that Greece receives “additional funding to tackle the humanitarian crisis of its own population”.
Furthermore, “that this year a Greek debt restructuring in a tolerable for the land form (long-term debt securities with lower interest rates) is introduced. In the underlying assessment of debt sustainability, the coated requirements are lower in the short and long-term budgetary targets”.
Signatories also advocate limiting the excessive short-term objectives of the Greek budget.
The initiative of this open letter belongs to the German political analyst of Rosa Luxemburg Foundation Judith Delheim and philosophy professor at the Free University of Berlin-Frieder Otto Wolf.
The signatories of the letter are:
Nicola Acocella, Roma, Italia economist,
Elmar Altvater, Berlin, Germany, political economist, member of the scientific council of ATTAC-Germany
Antoine Artous, Paris, France, political scientist
Étienne Balibar, Paris, France, philosopher
Thomas Barth, Ilmmünster / Munich, Germany sociologist,
Rudolph Bauer, Bremen, Germany sociologist, publicist
Seyla Benhabib, Yale, USA, philosopher, political scientist
Stefan Bestmann, Berlin, Germany, social research
Jacques Bidet, Paris, France, philosopher
Hans-Jürgen Bieling, Tübingen, Germany, political scientist
Gretchen Binus, Berlin, Germany economist,
Joachim Bischoff, Hamburg, Germany sociologist, and journalist
Heinz – J. Bontrup, Gelsenkirchen, Germany, economists
Andreas.Botsch, Berlin, Germany economist,
Miriam Boyer, Berlin, Germany, sociologist, social scientist
Reiner Braun, Berlin, Germany, Co-President of the International Peace Bureau (IPB)
Michael Brie, Schöneiche, Germany, philosopher
Andrea Brock, Hurth, Germany, international relations
Susan Buck-Morss, New York, USA, philosopher, intellectual historian
Judith Butler, Berkeley, Calif., USA, philosopher
Claude Calame, Paris, France, social anthropologist
Mario Candeias, Berlin, Germany, political scientist
Patrice Cohen-Seat, Paris, France, lawyer, honorary president of Espaces Marx
Laurence Cox, Dublin, Eire sociologist,
Alexis Cukier, Strasbourg, France, philosopher
Rolf Czeskleba-Dupont, Hvalsø, Danmark, geographer
Bo Dahlqvist, Waterloo, Belgium, student
Georgios Daremas, Athens, Hellas, member of the Executive Committee of ATTAC-Hellas
Nick Dearden, London, Great Britain, campaigner, director of a democratic justice organization
Judith Dell Home, Berlin, Germany, political economist
Andreas Diers, Bremen, Germany, historian
Stéphane Douailler, Paris, France, philosopher
Sebastian Dullien, Berlin, Germany economist,
Rolf Eckart, Munich, Germany, a social activist
Roland Erne, Dublin, Eire, Senior Lecturer, School of Business, University College Dublin
Trevor Evans, Berlin, Germany economist,
Michael Ewert, Munich, Germany, in German studies
Jean Louis Fabiani, Budapest, Hungary Magyar, sociologist / social anthropologist
Karl Fischbacher, Vienna, Austria, Labournet-Austria
Nancy Fraser, New York, USA, critical theorist,
Hans-Peter gases, Munich, Germany, member of “Social Forum Munich”
Dorothea Harlin, Berlin, Germany, member of “Berlin Water Table”
Peter Herrmann, Roma, Italia, social scientist
Gustav Horn, Dusseldorf, Germany economist,
Claus-Dieter König, Brussel / Bruxelles, Belgium, director of the Brussels office of a foundation
Joachim Klein, Offenbach, Germany, political theory and philosophy
Jürgen Klute, Herne, ex-MEP, Germany
Sudhir Kumar, Chennai, India architect,
Jeremy Leaman, Loughborough, Great Britain, European Political Economy
Steffen Lehndorff, Duisburg, Germany, social researcher
Jürgen Leibiger, Radebeul, Germany economist,
Brian Leslie, Tunbridge Wells, Great Britain economist,
Jakic Ljubomir, Bruxelles, Belgium, journalist
Camille Louis, Paris, France, philosopher and dramaturgist
Alberto Martínez Sánchez, the Valencia, Spain, vice president of ATTAC in Valencia region
Angie Mathieu, Paris, France, student / squatter
Sandro Mezzadra, Bologna, Italy, political theorist
Hans Misselwitz, Berlin, Germany
Margret Moenig-Raane, Berlin, Germany, former trade union leader services
Kalypso Nicolaïdis, Oxford, Great Britain, international relations
Norman Paech, Hamburg, Germany jurist,
Dagmar Paternoga, Bonn, Germany, Councilmember of ATTAC Germany
Helmut Penschinski, Wuppertal, Germany economist,
Bruce Robbins, New York, NY, USA, English and Comparative Literature
Michelle Riot-Sarcey, Paris, France, historian
Thomas Sablowski, Frankfurt aM, Germany, political scientist
Pierre Salama, Paris, France, Latin-American studies
Thomas Sauer, Jena, Germany economist,
Patrick Saurin, Paris, France, Spokesperson for the French Union Sud Solidaires BPCE
Gesine Schwan, Berlin, Germany, political scientist
Mechthild Schrooten, Bremen, Germany economist,
Ingo Schulze, Berlin, Germany, writer
Ursel Schumm-Garling, Berlin, Germany sociologist,
Lynne Segal, London, Great Britain, psycho-social Studies
Jai Sen, New Delhi, India, Director of CACIM – India Institute for Critical Action: Centre in Movement
Francis Sitel, ###, France, political analyst
Boaventura de Sousa Santos, Coimbra, Portugal, social scientist
Dieter Spöri, Berlin, Germany, former minister of economics
Elsa Stamatopoulos, New York, NY, USA, jurist anthropologist,
Roland Suss, Birkenau, Germany, member of council of Attac Germany
Rolf Sukowski, Berlin, Germany, chair of OWUS eV
Barbara Spinelli MEP, Roma, Italia
Axel Troost, MP, Leipzig, Germany economist,
Hans-Jürgen Urban, Frankfurt a. M., Germany, Board of the Metal Workers’ Union
Marie-Dominique Vernhes, Hamburg, Germany
Lode Vanoost, Sint-Genesius-Rode, Belgium, former Deputy Speaker of the Belgian House of Representatives
Guido Viale, Milano, Italia economist,
Antje Vollmer, Vice-President of the German Bundestag a D, Berlin
Immanuel Wallerstein, New Haven, Conecticut, USA, social scientist and social historian
Angela Wigger, Nijmegen, Nederlands, international political economist
Ulrich Wilken, MP, Germany, Frankfurt a. M.
Frieder Otto Wolf, Berlin, ex-MEP, Germany, philosopher
Harald Wolf, MdA, Berlin, Germany
Andrea Ypsilanti, MP, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Gabi Zimmer, MEP, Werder, Germany, group president