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Extending Brexit: Reaching the Larry David moment of the saga
“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.” With this quote, Douglas Adams managed to capture the feeling that deadlines trigger among students, authors, professionals, academics and millions of others time and again.
Contributor: Nikos Skoutaris
Categories: Europe (298), Politics (421)
Summit to usher in a new stage of EU-China relations
The upcoming EU-China summit in Brussels on 9 April will have a lavish menu, for sure. China is the EU’s second biggest trade partner after the US, while the EU is China’s biggest.
Contributor: Plamen Tonchev
Categories: Europe (298), Politics (421), Economy (357)
Bad news
Making mistakes is part of journalism. In the rush to get stories online, something can be misheard, misspelled, misinterpreted and then missed by editors.
Contributor: Nick Malkoutzis
Categories: Politics (421), Society (156), Greece (538)
Our daily bread
Sometimes it is the simplest acts that touch us most. In our overloaded lives, where information comes at us faster than we can absorb it and there is a surplus of mistrust and rancour, moments of genuineness stand out.
Contributor: Nick Malkoutzis
Categories: Europe (298), Politics (421), Society (156), Greece (538)
Deal or no deal? Greece wrestles with the Macedonia issue
Anyone who has tried to approach the Macedonia name issue with an open mind since it surfaced in the 1990s will likely have regretted they ever broached the matter. Many will have escaped when they had the chance, while the rest were sucked into its vortex of claim and counter-claim, intricate history, complicated geography and ugly politics.
Contributor: Nick Malkoutzis
Categories: Europe (298), Politics (421), Greece (538)