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The virtuous cycle

Posted  October 8, 2013  by  pdcadmin

By Maria Tsiouri Why are the Swiss good at everything? ask the Huffington Post. People. “Countries that invest in human capital end up getting returns in terms of economic growth. And then countries that have that economic growth are able to reinvest further in human capital. So you have this virtuous cycle that’s established.”

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How to design a new government

Posted  September 27, 2013  by  Politis

With all the talk of public sector reform in Greece these days, it would not be surprising if a casual reader might ask, what alternatives are there to the current state of affairs? Where might one start to look? Fear not, Google has an answer. It is called Constitute. It works, too, according to a recent […]

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ERT: Burning down the house

Posted  June 14, 2013  by  KK

By Krysta Kalachani Maria Houkli has a point in her editorial on the closure of ERT in glimatikotika.gr Friday morning. But there can also be strong criticism to what she says. In my view the way that the government decided to close down ERT sends messages drawn from other political systems: the public or state […]

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Democracy in Europe

Posted  June 4, 2013  by  pdcadmin

By John Lloyd The rich are always with us, and we’ll have more of them soon. A report last week from Boston Consulting Group shows that the global millionaire population is some 13.8 million. That is twice the size of Switzerland, which is, incidentally, where many of them have parked much of their wealth. More […]

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A coin has two sides: the new Greek society emerging from the crisis

Posted  May 15, 2012  by  pdcadmin

By Evangelos Kontos Experiencing these difficult days in Greek society first hand makes any person regardless of their political views, economic status, education, feel uncertain for the future, for the days to come. This uncertainty can transform to fear instantly and fear brings always his best friend with him, panic. A society in panic is […]

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Saying of the day: 6/20/13

Posted  June 20, 2013  by  Politis

    “J’ai mal à la Grèce.” Angélique Kourounis

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Could this work in Greece?

Posted  March 17, 2013  by  Politis

The Project on Government Oversight seeks to “provoke accountability” in the workings of the US Federal Government. About POGO Founded in 1981, POGO originally worked to expose outrageously overpriced military spending on items such as a $7,600 coffee maker and a $436 hammer. In 1990, after many successes reforming military spending, including a Pentagon spending […]

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Lazy Greeks? Civil society making its mark

Posted  May 28, 2013  by  Politis

Who’s doing what and where to  get Greece out of this mess, courtesy of  the Omikron Project.

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Around the town: 4/4/13

Posted  April 4, 2013  by  laura

This weekly feature offers a glimpse of what is happening in and around Thessaloniki. Compiled by Laura Strieth. Thu 4th April- Wear Vintage Bazaar- Spring time’s new vintage arrivals are available for purchase today. Hundreds of cool 70s, 80s and 90 pieces can be found. Abel Nagengast and Tako Reyenga will on the decks playing […]

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Saying of the day: 3/18/13

Posted  March 18, 2013  by  Politis

  “If you make people’s lives better they will pay you for it — bottom line.” — Rob Markey

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Democracy under seige in the north

Posted  June 25, 2013  by  pdcadmin

By Tom McLaughlin Our first prime minster, Sir John A. Macdonald, said “A public man should have no resentments.” His seething successors demonstrate that this adage is in desperate short supply in Canadian politics today. Faithful to the partisan glue binding them to their parties, our political class is doing everything possible to diminish, demean, […]

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Armed revolution… or democracy?

Posted  May 11, 2013  by  pdcadmin

By Bill Moyers and Michael Winship We were struck this week by one response to our broadcast last week on gun violence and the Newtown school killings. A visitor to the website wrote, “It is interesting to me that Bill Moyers, who every week describes the massive levels of corruption in our government… [and] the […]

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A Greek winner!

Posted  March 22, 2013  by  pdcadmin

By Christina Flora A Greek team of student-entrepreneurs won first place at the Pan-European trade fair, organized by the international organization Junior Achievement Europe (JA-YE), in Riga, Latvia, with 450 pupils from secondary schools and high schools from 30 countries of Europe and Africa participating. Business ideas were presented in the exhibition and combined technology […]

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Truckloads of gold

Posted  March 27, 2013  by  Politis

Euros arriving by truck to Cyprus from Brussels.

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The least bad option

Posted  June 19, 2013  by  pdcadmin

By Kevin Featherstone Last week’s dramatic decision to close down Greece’s state broadcaster, ERT answers a question Greece’s political leaders – in and out of government – have lacked the will to confront for a generation.  At one level, the move is gesture politics: a sudden, unilateral act intended to impress the Troika (the EU, […]

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Wanted: leaders and local color

Posted  January 21, 2013  by  DW

Surveying the panoply of contemporary European leaders, John Lloyd quips in Reuters, “All this grey almost makes you wish for Silvio Berlusconi to return, to lighten the mood.” “At times it seems that Europe, both in its national leaders and in the little-known men who are presidents of one EU institution or another, chooses obscurity […]

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Virtual book launch at the Dukakis Center

Posted  March 6, 2014  by  Politis

The Dukakis Center will host a virtual launch of “Still at Aulis: Essays on Crisis and Revolution in Greece and the Eurozone,” a Kindle e-book by David Wisner, Executive Director of the Center, on Thursday, March 6, 2014, from 12 noon throughout the afternoon. Interested parties can follow the event on the “Still at Aulis” […]

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Paraphrase of the day: 6/6/13

Posted  June 5, 2013  by  Politis

If you are reading these lines, you are very weird. You’re spending spare time considering arguments about politics, which most people don’t bother to do. — Ezra Klein

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Turkey and the EU redux

Posted  June 3, 2013  by  Politis

  This is a question on the tip of many people’s tongues, in Europe and elsewhere. As the folks at Debating Europe phrase it: should Turkey join the European Union? Have events in Turkey the past few days changed opinions about the intentions and objectives of the current Turkish government?

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Here’s to your health

Posted  April 14, 2015  by  DW

I recently found myself obliged to spend some time in a public hospital. Aside from the obvious benefits to my health, it was a most revealing experience. Ihave no complaints about my treatment. The rather negative opinion I had formed previously about this particular hospital, based largely on the impression of utter chaos and lack […]

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