The Troika is the informal name of the “decision making” group made up by the European Central Bank (ECB), the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the European Commission (EC).
These three multilateral agencies – integrated by various countries – study the economic situation of countries to point out what measures and economic reforms should be carried out if they want to consolidate their accounts and grow. These analysisare made from a clear neoliberal point of view,subject to pressure from corporate lobbies. The EU itself, in its voluntary «Transparency Register”, has 2524 registered corporate pressure groups, though, according to other sources, they are less than half of the existing «lobbies». Sigue leyendo
