Category Archives: Europe

Crooked timber

Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context.  17 May 2012 We  reprint below the substance of an article by commentator Simon Jenkins in … Continue reading

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Potential for panic

Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context.   16 May 2012 GREAT FEAR THAT COULD DEVELOP INTO A PANIC – BANK CHIEF At least … Continue reading

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Syriza

Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context.   15 May 2012 Ζήτω η Ελλάδα                     … Continue reading

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Mr Micawber

Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context.    11 May 2012   GREECE Income Yesterday 10 May 2012 bankupt Greece received a bailout … Continue reading

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Arsonists putting out fires

Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context.   8 May 2012 Apologies to readers outside Europe, but we continue to blog on the Greek … Continue reading

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Age: drachma 3000 years, euro 10

Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context.   8 May 2012 Two leftwing political parties in two different European countries have garnered unprecedented popular … Continue reading

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Come back, Ephialtes!

Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context.    7 May 2012 ATHENS, 2012 Ephialtes! thou shouldst be living at this hour: the Hellenic … Continue reading

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Yorktown redux

Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context.   The following is an updated version of our report “EU waves white flag” published on 29 … Continue reading

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EU waves white flag

Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context.   29 March 2012 EUROPE CAVES IN TO AMERICA In their never-ceasing quest for more and more … Continue reading

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Nuremberg and Athens

Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context.   17 March 2010 Great umbrage is taken by Antigone1984 at the mockery of the latest Greek … Continue reading

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