June 14, 2017
Economy, Guest Posts
Opponents of Greek debt relief claim there will be an extra financial burden on Eurozone member states and their taxpayers. This is not true, says Eric Dor, Director of Economic Studies at IESEG School of Management in Lille, France. Below Eric Dor’s position Why a lengthening of the maturities of …
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April 19, 2017
Guest Posts
What is happening to Europe of austerity? Difficult to explain. Cheshire Cat has a post about it. Calvinomics I have given up using economics to explain the rationality behind what happens in Europe. ‘European values’, as represented by every treaty since Maastricht 1992, are the rules and order of ordoliberalism. …
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April 2, 2017
Guest Posts, Opinion
We often speak of Greece ‘s “pathogenic diseases” that have infected of the political system and the society. We use the term to describe notorious and incurable habits that have settled here with their deep roots. We use this expression to put the blame on typical Greek features characteristic for …
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May 6, 2016
Guest Posts, Opinion
An approach from the other side of the Atlantic. How a diaspora Greek sees the Greek – German relations in the context of financial crisis and the so-called financial aid to save the debt-ridden country? Is it a pure financial issue or a misconception and misunderstanding due to different cultures? …
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December 5, 2015
Guest Posts, Opinion
Greeks have seen this film of “Greece Blame Game” a thousand times since 2010. At first, it was the Euro crisis, now it is the Refugees. For the European “partners” economically weak Greece is the easy target that can be blamed everything, for all problems of the European Union. EU’s …
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January 29, 2013
Guest Posts, Opinion, Society
How long does it take until Greek society explodes under the heavy load of austerity measures? “How long will these proud people put up with such degradation?” asks himself Bill Frezza, a Greek-American whose columns appear in Forbes and The Huffington Post. Frezza’s article appears in KTG with the author’s …
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January 16, 2013
Guest Posts, Opinion
This is an interesting approach to the issue of the hydrocarbon deposits apparently hidden in million of cubic meters in the bottom of our wonderful blue Greek waters. Are these deposits real? And if the answer is affirmative, will they solve all economic problems of the debt-ridden country with a population …
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June 20, 2012
Guest Posts, Opinion
KTG received this guest post by a young Greek woman living in the UK. Evi Marami, 30, an education psychologist, felt the need to write right from the heart her thoughts about the results of June 17 elections and the disturbed relations between the Greeks and their lenders. Cartoon about Greeks’ election dilemma The …
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June 17, 2010
Guest Posts, Opinion
contributed by Blog-Fan: Thomas/USA I am a Greek-American of the “diaspora” who can legitimately claim that I know both cultures fairly well. In our US community, Greek-Americans are held at the highest regard. The level of respect and even admiration we enjoy in our community is more than obvious. Before …
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June 7, 2010
Economy, Guest Posts, News, Opinion
There is a lot of talk about Restructuring Greece’s Debt , which many Greeks define as ‘official bankruptcy’. A friend of mine, a businessman, posts his opinion… “Bankruptcy of Greece is not the solution. In case the country goes bankrupt not only lenders will not touch anything Greek but we are doomed to go bankrupt …
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