Decisions taken by the Troika of international lenders (European Commission, ECB and IMF) in bailout countries Greece, Portugal, Ireland and Cyprus have brought about extreme social hardships, higher unemployment, lower than expected growth figures and increasing poverty levels. These are some of the complaints raised by the affected countries in their responses to the European Parliament´s inquiry into the work of the Troika, seen by Europolitics .
While all the national governments acknowledged that the programmes were inevitable, and recognised…