https://internationalviewpoint.org/ International Viewpoint, the monthly English-language magazine of the Fourth International, is a window to radical alternatives world-wide, carrying reports, analysis and debates from all corners of the globe. Correspondents in over 50 countries report on popular struggles, and the debates that are shaping the left of tomorrow. en SPIP - www.spip.net https://internationalviewpoint.org/local/cache-vignettes/L144xH25/siteon0-da713.png?1745245334 https://internationalviewpoint.org/ 25 144 https://internationalviewpoint.org/Illegitimacy-Illegality-Odiousness-and-Unsustainability-of-the-August-2015 https://internationalviewpoint.org/Illegitimacy-Illegality-Odiousness-and-Unsustainability-of-the-August-2015 2015-10-13T15:19:02Z text/html en Truth Committee on the Greek Public Debt Greece European Union Debt <p>In August 2015, the Tsipras (SYRIZA/ANEL) government agreed to a new Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) and a Financial Assistance Facility Agreement [loan agreement]. The terms of the August 2015 MoU [Third MoU) and loan agreement entered into by the Tsipras government brings into question two particular aspects of odious debt doctrine; namely: a) the proper place of economic self-determination (as expressed by popular vote) in debt restructuring and; b) the actual outcomes of these agreements on the Greek people, the fiscal and financial impositions on the State and the sustainability of the debt overall. These aspects of the agreements will determine the odious, illegal or illegitimate nature of the aforementioned outcomes.</p> - <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/-IV489-October-2015-" rel="directory">IV489 - October 2015</a> / <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/+-Greece-+" rel="tag">Greece</a>, <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/+-European-Union-+" rel="tag">European Union</a>, <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/+-Debt-+" rel="tag">Debt</a>