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Greece: A reality check
By Nick Malkoutzis
This rising tide to lift Greece’s boat will not only make the program more acceptable to the public, it will also make investors more buoyant, the thinking goes.
 INSIDE COMMENT
COMMENTARY
On a dangerous path
Certain people have created a monster and now, when they observe it, they wonder what it is. Golden Dawn, along with all its sloga...
EDITORIAL
Carpe diem
The country has a unique opportunity to turn the page. Society has displayed incredible maturity and responsibility, despite all t...
COMMENTARY
We’re not out of the woods
The gradual arrival of summer usually brings a sense of well-being and this year it seems to confirm the belief that Greeks are be...
EDITORIAL
A disgrace to Parliament
The events that unfolded in Parliament on Friday, when a Golden Dawn deputy was ejected for hurling insults at his peers, should b...
COMMENTARY
Greek vs Irish unions, 20-0
Since May 2010, when the troika’s adjustment program came into effect, there have been 20 general strikes in Greece. In Ireland, w...
EDITORIAL
Confused unionists
There are several useful conclusions to be drawn from the fiasco that was the secondary school teachers’ strike. The leadership of...
COMMENTARY
Greece: A reality check
And like that... poof, the crisis is gone. More bailout loans approved by the Eurogroup, a sovereign rating upgrade from Fitch, ec...
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COMMENTARY
Tele-bickering reaches its limits
 
By Alexis Papachelas
If the country’s politicians earned social security credits for every hour they spent on television, they should be eligible for retirement benefits at 50, at the most.
COMMENTARY
When the pillars are shaken
 
By Costas Iordanidis
The collapse of the economic system has gone hand-in-hand with the end of the political contract that had prevailed for the past few decades.
 
ECONOMY
ANALYSIS
Balancing fiscal and real conditions
By Dimitris Kontogiannis
Finance Minister Yannis Stournaras said recently that the numbers will prosper first and the people afterwards in an apparent effort to stave off criticism that the real economy is getting worse, as the government sees light at the end of tunnel.
COMMUNITY
REVAMP
Kypseli Market to be given back to residents
By Dimitris Rigopoulos
Residents of the rundown neighborhood of Kypseli in central Athens will be getting back their central marketplace as a project by the City of Athens to restore the historic indoor Kypseli Market gets under way.
LIFE
EXHIBITION
Hippocratic medicine through the ages
By Sandra Voulgari
The Goulandris Natural History Museum’s Gaia Center in the northern suburb of Kifissia recently inaugurated an exhibition titled “Hippocratic Medicine Through the Ages,” showcasing the plants and flowers that have contributed toward healing over the centuries.
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This Week
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