Opinion
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Greek Pontian Genocide: A young woman shares her thoughts in memory of her loving grandparents
Imagine living with people who are your family, people you know and love and love you on return, people who are hard working and caring who have given of themselves …
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The holocaust of the old gods
Superficially, at least, Constantine Cavafy’s enigmatic last poem, completed just days before his death in 1933, On the Outskirts of Antioch, focuses upon an episode in the life of the …
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Why a name deal with FYROM must be erga omnes
Following a 25-year-old stalemate in the name dispute between Greece and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM), the emergence of a new government led by Zoran Zaev in 2017 …
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Definition shift
Some years ago, I was re-reading Stratis Myrivilis’ classic anti-war novel Η ζωή εν τάφω (Life in the Tomb), a harrowing account of life in the trenches of the Macedonian …
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There’s no-one quite like mum
It was an impromptu two-month visit to Greece that forced me to truly realise how much I value the presence of my mother. My parents had been umming and ahhing …
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Stolen figs, stolen spuds
I remember it well, particularly on a freezing day here in Chicago, though over three decades have passed. We anchored our boat at Molos, a small bay well south of …
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Sing a song for eurotrash
Yanna Terzi did not make it to the Eurovision Song Contest finals. For the national debate, this constitutes some kind of insult. It is not the first time it has …
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The Eurovision Code
I don’t know about you, but I am incensed but not unduly astonished at the poor reception afforded by Europeans to Greece’s worthy contribution to the Eurovision song contest. In …
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Budget 2018: Budget repair has to wait when a national election looms
Malcom Turnbull’s Liberal-National coalition government is so serious about trying to win the next federal election, it has finally abandoned its previous fiscal orthodoxy about the need for “budget repair”. …
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Will the Eurozone come to a final deal with Greece over the latter’s debt?
“In a couple of weeks’ time, a group of international debt inspectors will land in Athens, where they will gain access to the Greek government’s accounts and pore over its …