ATHENS, GREECE — In the second and previous installment of this series, which generated a great deal of consternation — reflecting the inferiority complex and pro-EU dogmatism prevalent in much of Greek society — the grim future Greece would face by opting to retain its
By Neil Clark | RT | October 1, 2017 If voting changed anything, they’d abolish it. That might sound a bit glib but consider these recent events. In January 2015, the Greek people, sick and tired of austerity and rapidly plummeting living standards, voted for Syriza, a radical anti-austerity party. The Coalition of the Left, […]
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Eight years into the deepest economic depression that an industrialized country has ever experienced, we are now being told that Greece is a “success story.” Having accepted the “bitter medicine” prescribed by the “troika”—the European Commission, the European Central Bank, and the International Monetary Fund—the storyline today is that Greece is on the road to recovery, firmly within the European Union and the eurozone.
The myth can have a greater effect than an untruth, and those who are in the business of manufacturing and building them never go out of business. France’s President Emmanuel Macron has, for months, busily promoted a new myth: that of being European saviour, the man with healing visions and supportive panaceas, a counter weight to the toxicity of Trumpland.
ATHENS, Greece & LIMASSOL, Cyprus – (Analysis) It was way back in the ancient 1990s, when protesting crippling economic austerity measures, the economic imperialism of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank, and free trade deals such as NAFTA and the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS), was a mainstay of the progressive or left-wing political agenda and worldview.
The European Court of Human Rights on Thursday tossed a challenge to a Greek ban on political polling 15 days before an election, finding voters aren’t harmed by the law.
Five Greek nationals took their government to the EU’s human rights court over the 2009 re-enactment of a law banning all political polling – and the media’s dissemination of poll results to the public – 15 days prior to parliamentary or EU elections. Failure to comply with the law results in fines ranging from $36,000 to $360,000.
One country was torn apart by US neocons, and a neo-nazi puppet government, the other country was torn apart by corrupt local politicians, corrupt Brussels oligarchs, and a neo-liberal European Union.
Expats got the message, which is why Greece and Ukraine place at the bottom 10 “least favorite places” for expats to live.
Australia saw the largest drop in the rankings, sliding from tenth most expat-friendly country to a 34 ranking.
Santorini’s beautiful blue domed Greek churches seem to offend German low cost supermarket chain Lidl.
The German discount chain has been busted airbrushing Christianity out of Greek churches.
