Fréderike Geerdink was in a short holiday in Greece and wrote this article for yournalistinturkey.com They earn some €30 a day, Greek youngsters working in tourism during the summer. While their country is going through hard economic times, they are happy they found a...
Chios looks like any other Eastern Aegean Greek island. Especially when you arrive by boat or by plane and enter Chios Town as it is the commercial and political center of the prefecture, congested roads and busy traffic welcomes you. You might even think that you have arrived...
A report in the Italian newspaper Libero's web site last Monday that a small Aegean island, Ikaria is considering leaving Greece created havoc in media. Der Spiegel English says: A full century after the North Aegean island of Icaria gained independence by expelling its Turkish...
(Photo courtesy of Mehran Khalili) Last Sunday Greek people, nearly 65% of all eligible voters went to polls to decide what they want to do with the old lady we call Greece. Squeezed between economical hardship, austerity measures, self-pity and fear they were arguably not...
Deutsche Welle Many Greeks are considering emigration because of the severe economic crisis at home. More and more of them are deciding to leave for Turkey.In the past, Greeks who emigrated abroad most often went to the United States, Germany, France and Britain. But now that...
Below you may read Mitch Feierstein's article as it was published at Huffington Post. A very interesting tale of two countries in the grasp of economic crisis. Mitch Feierstein It's odd, life, the way it overturns your assumptions. You think that if everyone knows...
The pan-European call is addressed to all Western Europe citizens in response to the economic crisis and acute problems facing the Greek community. Social networks with the slogan “We are all Greeks” indicate that the measures passed on Sunday February 12th are imposing...
This article is published on The Guardian Comment Network on February 14th 2012. William Wall (The Guardian) The behaviour of the EU states towards Greece is inexplicable in the terms in which the EU defines itself. It is, first and foremost, a failure of...
In our humble opinion, upon the last developments in Europe, the 1978 article of Vaclav Havel, "The Power of Powerless" is very relevant once again. We present it here in its full as translated by Paul Wilson. "The Power of the Powerless" (October 1978) was originally written...
On February 12th, Parliament's decision on new austerity measures and people's invasion of Syntagma square mark another turning point in Greece's...
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