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Posts by Nick Malkoutzis
A year of risk and reward for Greece
Greece enters a new year that could prove to be a watershed in its long and meandering traipse through three successive bailouts and faltering efforts to overcome the chronic weaknesses that contributed to one of the most damaging economic crises the developed world has seen.
Contributor: Nick Malkoutzis
Categories: Politics (407), Economy (341), Greece (519)
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 (289), Greece (519)
Greece's open floodgates
The sun shone in Athens on Monday and the government announced an extensive compensation package for households and businesses afflicted by the catastrophic flooding in western parts of the capital over the previous days. Both events, though, could not disguise the tragic nature of what happened last week.
Contributor: Nick Malkoutzis
Categories: Politics (407), Greece (519)
Will centre-left let go of past to grasp change?
On Sunday, Greek social democrats will vote in the first round of a leadership contest for a party that has not been formed, a political manifesto that has not been written and with goals that have not been decided.
Contributor: Nick Malkoutzis
Categories: Politics (407), Greece (519)
US view on Greece proving constant amid change
Alexis Tsipras’s recent visit to the USA was something of a curate’s egg, ranging between high diplomacy and acute embarrassment. It would be wrong, though, to dismiss its implications.
Contributor: Nick Malkoutzis
Categories: Politics (407), Economy (341), Greece (519)