Profiting from Crisis

Profiting from Crisis

How corporations and lawyers are scavenging profits from Europe’s crisis countries

Corporations, backed by lawyers, use international investment agreements to scavenge for profits by suing Europe’s crisis countries. While speculators making risky investments are protected, ordinary people have no such protection and – through harsh austerity policies – are being stripped of basic social rights.

Chapters:

Executive summary

Chapter 1 Introduction: protecting speculators, endangering

democracy

Chapter 2 Never let a good crisis go to waste

Chapter 3 Greece and Cyprus: falling into the debt trap

Chapter 4 Spain’s solar dream becomes a legal nightmare

Chapter 5 Legal sharks circling crisis countries

Chapter 6 Conclusion: ending corporations’ VIP treatment

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