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Category Archives: Greece
Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive!
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. Athens, 26 January 2015 HELLAS “The world’s great age begins anew, The golden years return, The … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Europe, Germany, Greece, Literature, Luxembourg, Politics
Tagged Achaemenids, Aeschylus, Alexis Tsipras, Andreas Papandreou, ANEL, Evangelos Venizelos, Felipe González, George Papandreous, Jean-Claude Juncker, KKE, Lula da Silva, Marathon, Mitterand, New Democracy, Pasok, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Syntagma, Syriza, William Wordsworth
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Terminal desert
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. Athens, Friday 23 January 2015 We got a first-hand taster of the economic basket-case that is … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Europe, Greece, Politics
Tagged Athens, Brussels, Eleftherios Venizelos, Eurocrats, European Union
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Grecian urns
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. London, 20 January 2015 We are heading off to Athens tomorrow 21 January 2015 to observe … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Europe, Germany, Greece, Politics
Tagged Cimon, drachma, Ephialtes, euro, European Central Bank, European Union, Felipe González, Grexit, International Monetary Fund, New Democracy, Pasok, Pericles, Podemus, Syriza
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Caput anni
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. 1 January 2015 The good news is that Antigone1984 is to resume blogging as from today. … Continue reading
Posted in Afghanistan, Bahrain, China, Egypt, France, Greece, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Military, Poland, Politics, Portugal, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Spain, Syria, Turkey, UK, Ukraine, USA
Tagged Crimea, Cuba, Fidel Castro, Fulgencio Batista, Kuwait, mass surveillance, Nato, Qatar, spy agencies, typewriters
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Urns for Europa
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. 21 May 2014 The much-hyped non-event of the European Parliament elections is upon us again – … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Europe, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Politics, Spain, UK
Tagged euro, European Parliament elections, eurozone, gold standard, internal devaluation, partitocracy
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North v. South
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. 1 December 2013 The stark divide between the rich north of Europe and the poor south … Continue reading
Things haven’t changed much
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. 30 November 2013 “I had much the same experience as many other young men. I expected, … Continue reading
Posted in Greece, Literature, Philosophy, Politics
Tagged Athens, Classical Greece, Committee of Thirty, homo politicus, Plato, Plato's Seventh Letter, Socrates
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From Greek agora to Walmart
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. 28 November 2013 …the road from the democratic ideal of the Athenian agora to the irresistible … Continue reading
Posted in Greece, UK, USA
Tagged Athenian agora, consumer society, depoliticized electorates, Eric Hobsbawm, Walmart, Westfield
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Democracy? No thanks!
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. 25 November 2013 Enough is enough, the Greek government has finally told the triad (European Commission, … Continue reading
Posted in Europe, Germany, Greece, USA
Tagged Antonis Samaras, austerity, democracy, democratic deficit, ECB, EU, Greece, IMF, Syriza
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