To begin with the word itself: Let us remember that the first “Metapolitefsi” (the restoration of democracy) had already taken place before the Junta’s fall, in 1973.
METAPOLITEFSI: 50 YEARS
How do we measure time? How do we evaluate our era, our history, if not through our lives, through the distillation of our experiences and judgment? Each sees things from a specific point, through different expectations, disappointments, fears and achievements. “Man is the measure of all things,” declared Protagoras – the truth is relative, depending […]
How many times was the word “wrong” heard as an admission or an apportioning of blame at Kathimerini’s conference on the 50th anniversary since the restoration of Greek democracy?
If the Bank of Greece were not independent, Greece might have exited the eurozone in 2015, Yannis Stournaras, then as now the central bank’s governor, said Saturday.
Greece is a “state of law with established democratic institutions” and it “would be dangerous to ignore the achievements of the last 50 years,” President Katerina Sakellaropoulou has told the final day of the “50 Years of the Metapolitefsi” conference taking place in Athens.
The final day of the conference commemorating the 50th anniversary of the restoration of Greek democracy – a period known as the Metapolitefsi – is under way Saturday at the National Gallery in Athens.
Former prime minister Alexis Tsipras has said he never contemplated taking Greece out of the European Union or dropping its common currency when he called the 2015 referendum.
The final day of the conference commemorating the 50th anniversary of the restoration of Greek democracy – a period known as the Metapolitefsi – is under way Saturday at the National Gallery in Athens.
One of the areas where Greece made some of its greatest strides during the past 50 years has been in foreign policy, the second day of the “50 Years of the Metapolitefsi” conference heard on Friday.
A question hovers over the conference on the 50 years since the restoration of democracy, known as the Metapolitefsi, which began Thursday.
The second day of the conference, commemorating the 50th anniversary of the restoration of Greek democracy – a period known as the Metapolitefsi – is under way Friday at the National Gallery in Athens.
New Democracy bears a “huge responsibility” for its populism in undermining his government after Greece’s financial woes became known and for prolonging the country’s bailout regime, former prime minister George Papandreou has said.
Former conservative prime minister Antonis Samaras believes that the country’s lenders pulled the plug on his government in late 2014 so as to prevent Greece from exiting the bailout agreements before Alexis Tsipras and SYRIZA came to power.
The second day of the conference, commemorating the 50th anniversary of the restoration of Greek democracy – a period known as the Metapolitefsi – is under way Friday at the National Gallery in Athens.
Has the Metapolitefsi period concluded? What lessons does it impart? Is its overall legacy positive? These are they key questions that guided the discussions on the inaugural day of the conference titled “50 Years of the Metapolitefsi.”
The second day of the conference commemorating the 50th anniversary of the restoration of Greek democracy – a period known as the Metapolitefsi – is being held on Friday at the National Gallery in Athens.
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