“It was never just about that name only. Identity is something of a matter of ‘survival’ when you are a small Slavic nation of only two million people that can easily be ‘assimilated’ by your bigger neighbours.”Read the full article
Europe’s pledge to take in refugees from Greece to ‘share the burden’ has fallen short.Read the full article
In Greece it is not only the country’s 23 per cent unemployed who are in a precarious situation. Workers are being ever harder hit by austerity measures and abusive practices by employers.Read the full article
“Are we prepared to destroy our natural resources for the sake of 300 or even 1000 jobs?”Read the full article
Journalists Isabelle Merminod and Tim Baster spent several days in Idomeni, at the border between Greece and Macedonia, to document the plight of thousands of children, women and men stuck in a makeshift refugee campRead the full article
The Greek solidarity movement has opened squats to allow migrants and refugees to escape insalubrious living conditionsRead the full article
The opposition to the pensions overhaul has been unanimous, bringing together a disparate group of professions, including blue-collar and white-collar workers.Read the full article
The splintering of Syriza could only have been realised under the ideological hegemony of failureRead the full article
“If you a criminal or a defendant you get support, but if you’re a victim of serious crime you don’t”Read the full article
“It is disgraceful that European leaders allow migrants to take life-threatening risks”Read the full article
Ignoring the Irish and Greek water movements is typical of those who put innovation before democracyRead the full article
After inflicting so much suffering on the Greeks, the least EU leaders can do is let the people vote freelyRead the full article
