This meant offering the private sector the operation of the rail network, which generates profits, and leaving the public sector with its infrastructure, which only generates losses!
A privatisation that - like all privatisations of public companies - had only one objective: to privatise the profits and socialise the losses of the company. IMF : when Greece was placed under trusteeship. Troika Troika Troika: IMF, European Commission and European Central Bank, which together impose austerity measures through the conditions tied to loans to countries in difficulty. The least important group of countries (1,55% of the votes) is led by Gabon and brings together African countries. The most important one (6,57% of the votes) is led by Belgium. The other 183 member countries are divided into groups led by one country.
The institution is dominated by five countries: the United States (16,74%), Japan (6,23%), Germany (5,81%), France (4,29%) and the UK (4,29%). 85% of the votes is required to modify the IMF Charter (which means that the USA with 17,68% % of the votes has a de facto veto on any change). When the Bretton Wood fixed rates system came to an end in 1971, the main function of the IMF became that of being both policeman and fireman for global capital: it acts as policeman when it enforces its Structural Adjustment Policies and as fireman when it steps in to help out governments in risk of defaulting on debt repayments.Īs for the World Bank, a weighted voting system operates: depending on the amount paid as contribution by each member state. Its first mission was to support the new system of standard exchange rates. International Monetary Fund Along with the World Bank, the IMF was founded on the day the Bretton Woods Agreements were signed. But to understand the reason for this astounding lack of a signalling system, we have to go back to the privatisation of the Greek railways imposed by the infamous EU/ IMF IMF So here we are, at the heart of this new Greek tragedy, at the non-existence of what is the most elementary guarantee of safety for any rail transport. Except that this achievement does not exist, that it is totally phantom! And above all, that it is exactly its non-existence that caused the deadliest (57 dead) railway disaster in the country’s history! In short, inaugurating his election campaign, Mitsotakis was supposed to praise yet another achievement of his government in Thessaloniki. Can anyone tell us where the signalling and remote control centre is located and where it operates in Northern Greece? In Drama there is none, after PLATY to Florina single line, while towards Athens everything is switched off, after tx1 red, in operation Sindos, the line to Strymonas a jungle. the day after the disaster, to the “Centre for Remote Control and Signalling of the Northern Greek Railway Network” in Thessaloniki: “ I have just read on a website that Mitsotakis will be at the Centre for Remote Control and Signalling of the Northern Greek Railway Network tomorrow. Only a few hours before the terrible rail disaster of 28 February, the president of the train drivers’ union Kostas Genidounias commented on the visit that Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis was to make on 1 March, i.e.
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