East and west Quote by Noam Chomsky

Much of what Germany and France have done in the rescue of Greece has also helped German and French banks, who for a long…

— Mario Monti

“Unaware of the fact that they were actually paying for the mistakes of French and German bankers, the Slovaks and the Finns, like the…

— Yanis Varoufakis

Who lent the Greeks the most money? It was German banks, and for a long time, they were profiting from it quite nicely.

— Jaroslaw Kaczynski

“This financial crisis in Europe would have left Greece in Ruins, but it’s been that way for 2,000 years.”

— Jarod Kintz

“Bankers are seeking to capture government and make financial policy immune from democratic choice. What promised to be a progressive social democratic Europe half…

— Michael Hudson

In a world of massive wealth and income inequality, Europe must support Greece’s efforts to build an economy which creates more jobs and income,…

— Bernie Sanders

I would caution against fueling cheap populism. First of all, every German who has spent a vacation in Greece knows that the standard of…

— Wolfgang Schauble

The way some German politicians have lashed out at Greece when the country fell into the crisis has left deep wounds there. I was…

— Jean-Claude Juncker

The way the bankers have kind of toppled the way money is distributed, and taken most of it into their own hands, is as…

— Mario Batali

The Germans made just about every bad investment you could have made in the last 10 years. They invested in Icelandic banks. They invested…

— Michael Lewis

“He knew that the eurozone’s economic policies were not just atrocious for Greece but terrible for Europe and, by extension, for the United States…

— Yanis Varoufakis

“The present destruction of Europe would not be complete and thorough had the German people not accepted freely [the Nazi] plan, participated voluntarily in…

— Raphael Lemkin