“For what is Europe basically? It is an idea before it is a market. More precisely, it is only a market because it is, first of all, an idea.

The great divide between the centre right and the centre left in the country is defined by the Murdoch run News Corp.

“I had reached halfway through M Karagatsis’ classic novel Junkermann, about the life and times of a particularly resourceful White Army refugee who settles in Greece”

Excluding some well-organised professional groups from austerity hurts others.

Flag waving ceremonies during national celebrations tend to overshadow on many occasions and in many countries of the world the more important aspects of national history.

An argument for an alternative solution to the banking crisis, which was never taken up.

“Let us celebrate the hive of Venus, who rose from the sea: that hive of many names: the mighty fountain…”

Because of the enormity of its crisis, Greece has become both an example and a symbol of the big May election battle.

An unstable state attempts to secure a future through NATO and by appropriating the history of others.

National anniversaries such as Australia Day find most of us celebrating the public holiday on the 27th rather than the actual day of January 26th.