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Posts by Nick Malkoutzis
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 (417), Greece (535)
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 (417), Greece (535)
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 (417), Economy (355), Greece (535)
Wolfgang at the door
“Nothing will be quite the same again,” Greek Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos wrote on the European Union flag given to his German counterpart Wolfgang Schaeuble on October 9, as the latter attended his 113th and last Eurogroup.
Contributor: Nick Malkoutzis
Categories: Europe (297), Economy (355), Greece (535)
An unsettling role-reversal for Greece and Germany
At times over the last few years, German politicians have dreaded the choices that Greek voters were about to make. It is now the turn of Greek politicians to agonise over the choice that German voters have made.
Contributor: Nick Malkoutzis
Categories: Europe (297), Politics (417), Greece (535)