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Eurozone, Greece, Theatre

History is both alive and dead

Alex Mitchell/August 5, 2012March 2, 2013 /1 Comment

In just four days in Athens we’ve visited the Benaki Museum, the magnificent ruins and museum at Delphi, climbed to the Acropolis and inspected the Parthenon, and been to the Acropolis Museum and the breathtaking National Archaeological Museum in central Athens. In the days ahead we have a schedule of further trips and tours to…

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Eurozone, Greece

Exploring Athens

Judith White/August 3, 2012March 2, 2013 /Leave a comment

We’ve flown from the olive lands of Kalamata to Athens, home to five million of Greece’s 12 million people. We’re staying just off Syntagma Square, where all the capital’s big demonstrations take place. Central Athens is a surprise. It’s full of green spaces – we’re right opposite the National Botanic Gardens – and round the…

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Eurozone, Greece, Media

The Digger gives us a welcome to Athens

Alex Mitchell/August 3, 2012March 2, 2013 /Leave a comment

What a welcome to Athens. At the airport one of the Oz veterans of journalism, Brian “Digger” Williams, is there to greet us and drives us to our hotel which is a few hundred metres from the Parliament, the Presidential Palace and the venue for all the big political rallies. It is the first time…

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Eurozone, Greece

Farewell Messenia

Judith White/July 31, 2012March 2, 2013 /Leave a comment

We head for Athens tomorrow (Wednesday) after four weeks in the southern Peloponnese. It has been a superb introduction to Greece for me. We’ve explored the marine caves where a Neolithic civilisation flourished 7,000 years ago. We’ve entered the once opulent palace of Nestor, built more than 3,000 years ago, and the tombs where its…

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Eurozone, Greece

Rule by troika

Alex Mitchell/July 31, 2012March 2, 2013 /Leave a comment

When no single party won an outright majority at the May 6 general election, Greece held a second election on June 17. The stock, bond and money markets were ecstatic when the right-wing New Democracy topped the poll and immediately formed a three-party coalition with Pasok, the social democratic party, and the Democratic Left party….

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Eurozone, South America, WikiLeaks

Sweden stalks Julian Assange

Alex Mitchell/July 26, 2012March 2, 2013 /Leave a comment

As the Australian Government – in the form of Prime Minister Julia Gillard, Attorney-General Nicola Roxon and Foreign Minister Bob Carr – is cooperating in the extradition of Australian citizen Julian Assange to Sweden, I thought it was time to put the spotlight on the plucky Scandinavian kingdom. Most Australians regard Sweden as a shining…

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Eurozone, Greece

Into the wilds

Judith White/July 22, 2012March 2, 2013 /Leave a comment

We’ve been in the Deep Mani, the southernmost part of the Peloponnese, discovering stories of warrior women and relics of the one of the oldest known civilisations in all of Greece. Our way led over winding mountain coastal roads into the wildest, most barren landscape we’ve yet seen. Clinging to folds in the stony hills…

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Eurozone, Greece, USA

Unholy alliance against bail-out

Alex Mitchell/July 15, 2012March 2, 2013 /1 Comment

The Greek bail-out negotiations are so tortuous that they require a knowledge of quantum physics to track their progress. The next “crunch date” is July 24 when the so-called “troika” representing the Euro-banks, the IMF and the European Commission return with their final report on what the Greek people must sacrifice to satisfy the German,…

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Greece’s wartime history: a reflection

Alex Mitchell/July 12, 2012March 2, 2013 /Leave a comment

Hitler’s German army invaded Greece in Operation Marita on April 6, 1941. Using overwhelming ground and air forces, including 10 armoured, mechanised and mountain divisions and the SS Adolf Hitler Bodyguard, the campaign was to avenge the humiliating defeat inflicted on Mussolini’s army.  The German army blitzed its way to victory in three weeks with…

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Britain, Eurozone, Greece

Severe case of foot in mouth

Judith White/July 10, 2012March 2, 2013 /Leave a comment

Greeks are in disbelief at the way they are being blamed for the crisis by right-wing European politicians. German Chancellor Angela Merkel urged them in the recent elections to vote for parties that would enforce the European Union’s proposed austerity measures. Last week British Prime Minister David Cameron courted the Little England vote by saying…

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