Do we need a public debt?
Do we need a public debt?
The answer is yes. A State must be able to contract loans in order to improve its population’s living standards, for instance when it carries out major work of public utility and invests in renewable energies. These public loans could be used to move from an economy geared to the needs of car drivers to one that gives priority to public transport, to shut down nuclear plants and replace them with renewable sources of energy, to renovate, upgrade or build from scratch public buildings and social housing that would require less energy and be equipped with state-of-the-art facilities.
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La jornada de huelga se ha desarrollado en plena efervescencia, las calles de muchas ciudades y pueblos han sido tomadas por miles de personas y multitud de piquetes, acciones y concentraciones. Por la tarde, el corazón de las urbes se ha bloqueado por las diferentes manifestaciones que marchaban contra la reforma laboral por todo el Estado. 
Activistas lanzan un proceso de Auditoría Ciudadana para demostrar la ilegitimidad de la deuda, denunciar a sus responsables y exigir el NO PAGO de la deuda ilegítima 
We, African organizations at the Alternative World Water Forum, in Marseille from 14 to 17 March 2012, 
Par MYRIAM MARTIN Membre du Conseil politique du NPA, HÉLÈNE ADAM Membre du Conseil politique du NPA, PIERRE-FRANÇOIS GROND Membre du Conseil politique du NPA 
We now have a debt structure that will lead to ructions between the EU, the IMF and a Greece asked to consent to suicide 
Amidst a general atmosphere of an extreme lack of transparency it has come to our knowledge that Egypt had sealed agreements with three European countries pertaining to the implementation of debt swap programs, and is currently negotiating with two further countries. The countries in question according to informal sources are Germany, France, Italy and Belgium. The Popular Campaign to Drop Egypt’s Debt would like to raise strong concerns regarding the conditions under which these agreement are being negotiated, as well as the practice of debt swap itself under the given circumstances. 
Campaigners tell Chancellor to legislate against vulture funds taking action against Greece in British courts
El dinero público de los ciudadanos españoles prestado a Grecia irá directo a manos de banqueros, FMI y BCE. ¡No al genocidio social, no en nuestro nombre!
Le soulagement est à la hauteur des craintes passées : 85,5 % des créanciers privés ont accepté jeudi soir de participer à la restructuration de la dette grecque. Dès vendredi matin, le ministre des finances, François Baroin,
El 21 de febrero, los ministros de Finanzas europeos llegaron a un acuerdo con el Gobierno griego para proceder al segundo rescate financiero del país.
Eric Toussaint, Doctor of Political Science and President of the Committee for the Abolition of Third World Debt (CADTM), is a member of the Commission for an Integral Auditing of Public Debt in Ecuador (CAIC) whose findings resulted in Ecuador stopping its repayment of part of its debt. He claims that Greece must stop paying its debt and must rise up against the Troika (the European Central Bank, the IMF and the European Commission) otherwise it will sink into the doldrums of permanent recession. 
Eric Toussaint, docteur en sciences politiques et président du Comité pour l’Annulation de la Dette du Tiers Monde (CADTM) est membre de la Commission d’audit intégral sur le crédit public en Equateur (CAIC) dont l’action a abouti à la suspension de paiement d’une partie de la dette équatorienne. Pour lui, la Grèce doit arrêter de payer la dette et doit se rebeller face à la Troïka composée de la Banque centrale européenne, du FMI et de la Commission européenne sans quoi elle s’enlisera dans une récession permanente.