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Posts on December 2017
The republic without a government
More than three months after the general elections Germany still does not have a new government.
Contributor: Jens Bastian
Categories: Politics (364), Economy (312)
Check, please: How much Alexis Tsipras's first months cost Greece
This time last year, Alexis Tsipras was in the awkward position of having missed his main objectives and found himself at odds with Greece’s creditors over his decision to hand out a 13th pension.
Contributor: Yiannis Mouzakis
Categories: Politics (364), Economy (312), Greece (466)
EU disunity on refugees and its poisonous effects
Several far-right European leaders, including Marie Le Pen and Geert Wilders, met over the weekend in Prague, from where they called for travel bans, border walls and pushbacks of boats carrying migrants.
Contributor: Nick Malkoutzis
Categories: Europe (276), Greece (466)
What's in an Irish border?
In the first film of what could be loosely considered Theo Angelopoulos’ Trilogy of Borders, The Suspended Step of the Stork (1991), there is an image of a stranger standing on a bridge poised over the dividing line between two countries. He has one leg suspended in mid-air, like a stork. ‘If I take one more step I am... somewhere else, or... I die’.
Contributor: Nikos Skoutaris
Categories: Europe (276), Politics (364)
Pandora's box ajar for Turkey and Greece?
To put things mildly, things did not go as expected for both sides. President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's visit to Greece was the first in 65 years after one of the founding fathers of the Turkish Republic, President Celal Bayar's trip in 1952. And now, as a consequence of this diplomatic flop, there might not be a similar visit for some time to come at least; if not for the next 65 years.
Contributor: Sezin Öney
Categories: Politics (364), Greece (466)