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Beg, Borrow or Steal: the Greek Crisis
by Alexandros Stavrakas
The commentary on the Greek crisis has predictably descended into a spectacle of cheap moralisation. Over the past months, we have been bombarded with accusatory tirades aimed against corrupt politicians, greedy bankers, depraved technocrats and more or less anyone who’s had a chance to use and abuse the system in order to advance [...]
Posted in articles, comment/analysis, current affairs, politics Also tagged greece, greek debt crisis, greek politics, IMF 1 Comment
The End of Politics (2): Europe
by Costas Douzinas
How different does Europe look today from ten years ago. In 2000, influential commentators hailed the dawn of the ‘new European century’ to replace the atrocious ‘American’ 20th century. Europe was on the way to becoming the model polity for the new world. The re-unification of Germany, the successful introduction of the Euro [...]
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Love and Truth: Václav Havel in Bratislava, Twenty Years After 1989
by Timothy Snyder
from The New York Review of Books – Blog
It can’t happen often that citizens of one country gather to honor someone who was the president of two other countries, all the while claiming him as their own. But so it was on November 18, 2009, twenty years after student protests in Prague that [...]
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In London and Athens, protesters are rekindling the true European spirit