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A Citizen’s Guide to Greece 2015

 
 

 
 

Public service is a calling — even when the government is shut down

Excerpts from an opinion piece in this past Saturday’s Washington Post by Ann Marie Oliva, director of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, Office of Special Needs Assistance Programs. “The past two week...
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Who owns Thessaloniki’s history?

By Ian Kehoe Back in 2008, while I was talking about the history of Thessaloniki to a group of university students I realised that many of them did not even know that there had been a major Jewish population in the city. I was ...
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En deuil

Charlie est mort, vive Charlie.
 

 
 

Should we look to ancient Athens?

By Claudia Chwalisz Editor’s note: Originally published on policy-network.net as “An Athenian solution to democratic discontent,” February 19, 2015. Reposted by permission of the author. New forms of contact ...
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Gender biography and citizenship

By Maria Kyriakidou On  March 5, 2012 the Dukakis Center co-hosted a workshop on women’s biographies, life stories and autobiographies. The workshop consisted of panels regarding the research methodology on gender and biogra...
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College is over, guys

By Paschos Mandravelis Most people look back on their college years with nostalgia. Those were carefree and uncomplicated days, but three times a year, the sensation of nonchalance was brutally interrupted. In late May, early S...
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The Stick: safe to leave home without it?

In a less than tongue-in-cheek account, Bloomberg’s Megan Greene recounts conversations she has had of late with former Finance Minister George Papaconstantinou in an attempt to make sense of what happened to the data sti...
 
 
 

Post-crisis posturing?

A bit of finger pointing (and back-patting), if not distance-putting, today from Finance Minister Yiannis Stournaras. Inaction by former PMs Kostas Karamanlis and George Papandreou exacerbated Greece’s sovereign debt cris...
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And what about the political corruption?

By Maria Patsarika I read an article by Thanasis Skokos in Protagon yesterday about corruption. Actually, it is one of the many articles out there discussing the extent to which politicians who have misused power and public fun...
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