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Greek women in crisis
On International Women’s Day on Wednesday, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras’s Twitter account wished for the women of the world who are fighting for their rights “strength and luck.” He mentioned the elderly ladies on the island of Lesvos who took refugee babies in their hands to feed them and Konstantina Kouneva, the historian from Bulgaria, who worked as a cleaner and was had sulfuric acid thrown on her face in 2008, as “faces of fighting women.”
Contributor: Elli Siapkidou
Categories: Economy (357), Society (156), Greece (537)
The joke's on Greece
A Greek businessman, a Greek minister, a Greek opposition MP and a German official go to an economic conference. The German ends up being the only one that defends the Greek position. It may sound like a bad joke but it is a sad reality.
Contributor: Nick Malkoutzis
Categories: Politics (420), Society (156), Greece (537)
Tormenting Greece with a distorted picture
Greece is experiencing one of its regular bouts of schizophrenia, when its mood swings wildly, what it wants changes abruptly and what is considered good one day can become bad overnight.
Contributor: Nick Malkoutzis
Categories: Politics (420), Economy (357), Greece (537)
This is where the last few days have left Greece and lenders
It has usually been the case during the last seven years that when a Greek government is nearing an agreement with its lenders, there is an upsurge in the amount of misinformation, disinformation and downright propaganda that Greeks hear and read.
Contributor: Nick Malkoutzis
Categories: Politics (420), Economy (357), Greece (537)
Seven years of demanding the impossible in Greece
In a recent presentation of his book, Laid Low, which examines the International Monetary Fund’s role in the euro crisis, author and journalist Paul Blustein disclosed a memo dated May 4, 2010, from the IMF’s then head of research Olivier Blanchard, to its head of the Greek mission at the time, Poul Thomsen.
Contributor: Yiannis Mouzakis
Categories: Europe (298), Economy (357), Greece (537)