The MoU for the third bailout offers a nod to ‘social justice and fairness’ and a reference to what may be Prime Minister Tsipras’ only win in the protracted ‘negotiations’! ‘a basic social safety net in the form of a Guaranteed Minimum Income (GMI)’ (in his commentary on the MoU! former Finance Minister Varoufakis australia phone number library that the Troika’s. GMI will merely take from one poor Greek family to give to another). But there is little in the MoU to suggest that the scheme is meant to serve the interests of humans.
EU institutions! IMF
IMF Member States! have all failed to meet the most basic of requirements to prevent human rights harms in the policies they pursued and the ESM (and ESM Member States i.e. eurozone states) are on the same track with this new MoU. There was! and it seems there still is! no intention to undertake the ex ante and ex post impact assessment that forms a basic expectation of international human rights law and EU law and policy! including guarantees of consultation by persons likely to be affected h5 page design: harmonious coexistence of vision and interaction the policies and access to information and transparency regarding public access to the results of assessments.
As an aside! the references in the MoU
2015 to ‘oversight and transparency of america email standards’ as part of the controversial €50 billion privatisation Fund! that! in line with the statement of the Euro Summit of 12 July 2015! ‘will be established and have in its possession valuable Greek Assets’ and will be supervised by the relevant European institutions [p. 25]! fail as an exercise in procedural whitewashing of the main aim which is the selling off of Greece. In a recent piece! Etienne Balibar! Sandro Mezzadra and Frieder Otto Wolf drew attention to the planned alternative to Grexit – the reduction of Greece to a neoliberal protectorate (Lafazanis prefers ‘neo-colony’) and the expropriation of its national resources.