Elena Panaritis

Feb. 6 (Bloomberg) — Elena Panaritis, a Greek member of parliament and former World Bank economist, talks about austerity negotiations. She speaks from Athens with Mark Barton and David Tweed on Bloomberg Television’s “On the Move.”    

      Greek Unions Hold 24-Hour Strike Against Austerity Elena Panaritis, member of parliament for the PASOK party, told CNBC, “we are going through two years of severe austerity and an additional wave of that doesn’t lend very easily among people and among the prime minister, the members of the parties and the party […]

      Greece’s leaders and representatives of the “troika” responsible for its bailout failed yet again to reach agreement on the terms of a second bailout by Tuesday morning leaving European markets facing another day’s uncertainty over the Mediterranean country. Elena Panaritis, MP for Pasok, the party of former Prime Minister George Papandreou, told CNBC […]

By Elena Panaritis Founder, Panel Group; Author, ‘Prosperity Unbound’   Is this the beginning of the end? S&P announced a reduction of France from AAA to AA. As it turns out, S&P’s December 5th warning was not addressed to satisfy fears in the market. What does a downgrading of France really mean? It means that […]

Resolving the deep and prolonged economic crisis in Greece — an economic and financial storm of historic proportions and the worst since WWII — requires a lot more than rescue funds. It requires more than short-term macroeconomic reforms and austerity measures. (more…)

Former Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou will not only be remembered for having been in office during Greece’s worst economic crisis since the 1930s. He will be remembered as bold and decisive — and unafraid to take unpopular positions, argues Elena Panaritis, a member of Greece’s parliament. (more…)

No haircut. No default. Greece will persevere. This is our government’s unyielding stance on the current crisis, stressed by the prime minister in Germany this week. He also called on the other eurozone countries to show an equal commitment. (more…)

On June 29, Greece’s parliament adopted a contentious austerity package that paves the way for the EU and the IMF to unlock another crucial installment of bailout funds. Elena Panaritis, a member of Greece’s parliament, explains what her country must do going forward to put itself on sounder financial footing. It was a make-or-break vote […]

Over the past year, we here in Greece have been going through all of the five stages of grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance. We woke up to the crisis in denial, came to terms with it, and became angry. Then we started bargaining for our future until we got so depressed we finally […]

Tax evasion in Greece is rife. In fact, it can be described as an epidemic, particularly in small businesses that handle cash. But is tax evasion the same as it is in the United States or in other countries? Is it that Greeks are born with an Al Capone gene? No. The real culprit is […]