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Schumann: They make Europe look like a financial dictatorship

An interview to Stelios Kouloglou

The secret recipe of Troika imposing austerity on the people of Europe reveals the recent documentary by the famous German research journalist Harald Schumann, entitled "Omnipotent and Uncontrollable: The Troika" which will be screened on April 21 at the European Parliament in Brussels. The event was organized and coordinated by MEP SYRIZA Stelios Kouloglou.

A few days before the screening, the German journalist who has been strident criticism of the government of his country through his work and the Greek journalist who has researched the dark role of economic "hitmen" through his documentaries, talk in front of the camera, giving an enlightening look at the controversial role of the Troika, but also at the plans of the European institutions for Greece. As characteristically Harald Schumann says to Stelios Kouloglou, the policies that have been followed, made Europe today look like a "financial dictatorship".

A few words about the "omnipotent and uncontrollable" Troika

After the documentary "The secret bank bailouts» (Staatsgeheimnis Bankenrettung) for which he was awarded with the highest journalism award in Germany in 2014, Schumann investigates, for a year, traces of Troika from the beginning of the economic crisis until today. For this purpose, he travels in Portugal, Cyprus, Ireland, Brussels, London, Berlin, the USA and Greece and attempts to shed light on its controversial and "dark" part. In order to get the loans they need to deal with the crisis, European states must be aligned with the requirements of the three key institutions that make up the troika: the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the European Commission (EC) and the European Central Bank (ECB).

Schumann finds that Troika impose to democratically elected governments a comprehensive government program, which are forced to implement by signing a Memorandum of Understanding. Humiliation, fear and subjugation are components of the prescription provided by Troika. According to the representative of Brazil to the IMF, Paulo Nogueira Batista: "The worst thing that can happen to a country, is to fall into the hands of international bureaucrats" who calls "technocrats without a country."

The screening

The screening of the documentary "Omnipotent and Uncontrollable: The Troika" will take place on April 21 in Room P3C050 in the European Parliament in Brussels.

After the screening in the European Parliament, a discussion will be held which will be coordinated by Stelios Kouloglou. Together with the creator of the documentary, the MEPs Philippe Lamberts (Greens / EFA) and Elisa Ferreira (Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats) who participate in the documentary, will take part in the discussion.

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