February 28, 2024
Editor, FEATURED, Opinion
It took me hours today to get myself together and write a post about the commemoration actions and the marches of angry Greeks demanding Justice for the 57 victims of the Tempi train disaster on 28. February 2023. I lost my inner balance today and the reason was a new …
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June 29, 2023
Editor, FEATURED, Greece, Opinion, Politics
In an unexpected move but not a surprised one after the crushing defeat on the June 25 elections, Alexis Tsipras announced on Thursday noon that he resigns as leader of left-wing SYRIZA. He will not be a candidate in elections for the new party leadership, he added. This decision was …
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October 4, 2019
Greece, Politics
Over the last couple of days, ministers of the Greek government but also Prime Minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, have been promoting a new policy claiming the increase of arrivals on the islands of the Eastern Aegean Sea is a migration issue and not a refugee crisis. Furthermore, they claimed that the …
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January 9, 2019
Editor
“German Chancellor Angela Merkel will urge Greece to press on with tough economic reforms and maintain strict fiscal discipline when she visits Athens on Thursday for the first time in nearly five years,” reuters reports a day before she arrives in Athens. Moreover, Merkel will encourage Greek politicians to support …
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July 9, 2018
Greece, Politics
“If you love Greece, help us get rid of Alexis Tsipras and his zombie party,” write former SYRIZA MP and Parliament Speaker in first left-wing government, Zoi Konstantopoulou. In an op-ed posted in UK’s The Guardian, the ex comrade accuses Prime Minister, Alexis Tsipras and her former party that they …
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May 21, 2018
Editor, Opinion
The attack on Mayor of Thessaloniki, Yiannis Boutaris has shocked the democratic world in Greece and abroad. Equally shocking has been the hate speech and incitement to violence by an -unfortunately- large portion of Greeks on social media. And not only. Several diaspora Greeks, poured their poison against Boutaris on …
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April 21, 2017
Greece, Politics
In an op-ed to Wall Street Journal, Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras urges creditors to “end punitive approaches of the past”. He stresses that the differences between the International Monetary Fund and the Europeans are harming the Greek economy. The recent economic crisis persuaded the international community that long-term economic …
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March 25, 2017
Editor
A Rome Declaration aiming to restart Europe? The good old European Union that turned 60 today? The Europe of multiple speeds where each member state looks after its own interests? Signing the Rome Declaration, the leaders of 27 EU member-states – minus Britain – proclaimed “Europe in our common future.” …
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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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August 13, 2015
Economy
The Eurozone’s masks have fallen. Hardly anyone has anymore the illusion that the 3. bailout aims to facilitate Greece to pay back its debts and that it therefore needs more austerity or “reforms” as they are euphemistically been called. On one hand the 3. bailout brings additional cuts in health …
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February 19, 2015
Economy
The decision of German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble to reject right away the Greek request for extension of the loan agreement has stunned every one: officials in EU and the IMF, journalists, and even Schaeuble German coalition partners. In a psychologically, economically and politically hard to explain reaction, FinMin Schaeuble …
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January 13, 2015
Economy
Alexis Tsipras, leader of left-wing Syriza a said Greece cannot repay its debt as long as its creditors enforce “fiscal waterboarding” and signaled he will boost government spending if his Syriza alliance wins power. In an op-ed article in Germany’s Handelsblatt newspaper today, Mr Tsipras said the notion that Greece’s …
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September 18, 2013
Editor
Αll signs show that it was a cold-blooded murder. Eye witnesses speak of a car that drove the one-way street the opposite direction, that assailant came out of the car and stabbed the victim twice. 34-year-old anti-fascist and rapper Pavlos Fyssas died short after the stabbing in the hospital. 45-year-old …
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June 24, 2013
Politics
Samaras’ coalition government did not fall apart, the prime minister of Greece survived another crisis, however the risk of early elections has not being averted. The economic austerity circumstances make the survival of any coalition government and Samaras in PM-chair for another three years almost impossible. Just to add some …
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October 30, 2012
Politics
Hey! Caught red-handed and exposed even on the other side of the big river! Renomated New York Times sharply criticized “Greece’s slow and cumbersome justice system” and “mainstream Greek politicians”: the first for showing a “stunning swiftness” to arrest investigative Kostas Vaxevanis, and the latter for “shamefully stripping the poorest and most vulnerable from …
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July 31, 2012
Economy, Editor, Politics, Uncategorized
There is something odd about the talks between Greece’s government partners Antonis Samaras (ND), Evangelos Venizelos (PASOK) and Fotis Kouvelis (Democratic Left). The three leaders, their parties’ committees and negotiation teams from several ministries have been apparently talking about the 11-billion-euro package of Troika-measures under the guidelines of Finance Minister Yiannis Stournaras …
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June 13, 2012
Economy, Politics
Four days before the June 17 elections and while Germany and Austria raises their tones to influence Greek voters and cast their votes for pro-bailout parties, Alexis Tsipras, the leader of left-wing SYRIZA pledges to “keep Greece in the euro zone and restore growth”. In an op-ed to Financial Times, …
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June 2, 2011
Editor
The wave of Indignants appears to be spreading increasingly and the virus of “Speak Up”-disease infects more and more people and social classes. The voices of those seeking changes in the deadlocked political system are getting louder. No, no, there not demands about ‘anarchistic revolts, “overturning the order” and other scary political concepts, …
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