Auteur: dafnip
Y. Papadopoulos: “We know what it means to be a refugee”
11 februari 2016 – If she could, 85-year-old Maritsa Mavrapidi would walk down the road from her front gate to the beach of Skala Sykamias and wait – as she has done so many times in the past – for the boats to land. After all, she knows exactly what it…
J. Psaropoulos: The Aegean’s nameless dead
M. Vickery, K.L. Lunde: ‘We have the same God’
I. Traynor/H. Smith: Greece hits back after EU’s Schengen threat
27 februari 2016 – Athens furious at being ‘scapegoated’ over refugee crisis and fears effect of being expelled from passport-free zone. Greece has hit back angrily after being given three months to avoid being suspended from Europe’s free-travel Schengen area because of its alleged failures to get a grip on the…
J. Gunter: Migrant crisis and Greek volunteers
P. Bouckaert: In Lesbos Tragedy, the Shape of Europe’s Migrant Scandal
E. Holodny: Here’s why the next Greek crisis will be much harder to resolve
9 februari 2016 – “Greece is not doing well. The country’s government is once again stuck in between appeasing its creditors, who are calling for more pension reform, and appeasing its constituents, who are protesting the fact that they’ll be worse of economically if/when these austerity measures come into fruition.” “When the refugee…
A. Messinis: War in peace
Weapons go to conflict zones, the money comes to Germany
New figures show that German weapons exports increased yet again this year, especially sales of small arms to countries outside NATO. Critics say you need look no further for the root of displaced people in Europe. Read the complete article of Ben Knight on: Dw.com © Ben Knight, BRON Photo credit: Gettyimages/AFP/…
J. Freedland: This euro is destroying the European dream
3 juli 2015 – Jonathan Freedland is a British journalist, who writes a weekly column for he Guardian. He is also a regular contributor to the New York Times and the New York Review of Books, and presents BBC Radio 4’s contemporary history series, The Long View. Freedland argues: “The deficit fetishists of Brussels…
S. Sassen: Three rarely –IF EVER– mentioned facts in the Greek tragedy
3 juli 2015 – Saskia Sassen is a Dutch-American sociologist noted for her analyses of globalization and international human migration. She is Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology at Columbia University, and Chairs The Committee on Global Thought. Sassen coined the term global city. In this article Sassen addresses the reader directly: “You, dear reader, decide if…
D. Vardoulakis: Why the “no” vote is a “yes” to the idea of Europe
Juli 2015 – Dimitris Vardoulakis is the chair of Philosophy of the University of Western Sydney. His research interests range from the relation between literature and philosophy to theories of power and sovereignty. Vardoulakis is commenting on the referendum with particular emphasis on the distinction between currency administration and political decision making in the EU. He argues…
Voltooiing
24 juni 2015. Ewald Engelen is hoogleraar financiële geografie aan de Universiteit van Amsterdam. De ‘hard hitting, fast running’ (aldus zijn Twitter-account) professor schrijft columns voor De Groene Amsterdammer en Het Parool en is vaste gast en commentator bij Buitenhof, Pauw & Witteman en BNR nieuwsradio. “Terwijl in het ene kamertje…
A. Chakrabortty: Greece is a sideshow. The eurozone has failed
Aditya Chakrabortty is senior economics commentator for the Guardian. She argues that: ” Nearly every discussion of the Greek fiasco is based on a morality play. Call it Naughty Greece versus Noble Europe. Those troublesome Greeks never belonged in the euro, runs this story. Once inside, they got themselves into a big fat mess –…
D. Dalakoglou: State, violence & public spaces in the European periphery
2 juli 2015 – Worried by the current crisis affecting the Eurozone and many other parts of the world, we sometimes feel disempowered by our lack of deeper understanding of the mechanisms that have triggered such devastating developments. Dimitris Dalakoglou, professor of social anthropology at the VU university in Amsterdam, studied…
B. Jacobs: Ramp voor de Grieken, Blamage voor EU
17 juni 2015 – Bas Jacobs is econoom en promoveerde in 2002 aan de Universiteit aan de Universiteit van Amsterdam op het proefschrift Public Finance and Human Capital. Sinds 2007 is hij hoogleraar economie en overheidsfinanciën aan de Erasmus School of Economics van de Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam. Op zijn weblog publiceert hij een…
J. Weeks: Grexit: When Not If
15 juni 2015 – John Weeks is economist and professor emeritus at SOAS, University of London. He argues that there were no real negotiations between Greece and the troika the last five months. The troika intended from the outset to accept only one of two outcomes: 1) the new Greek government…
Y. Varoufakis: Greece’s proposals to end the crisis
18 juni 2015 – Yanis Varoufakis, minister van financiën in het kabinet Tsipras, zet de voorstellen van de Griekse onderhandelaars uiteen in een poging om “the disinformation, malicious ‘leaks’ and propaganda of the media” tegen te gaan. Read the complete article at: Yanisvaroufakis.eu or at: openDemocracy.org © Yanis Varoufakis, Posted on June 18,…
A. Watt: The Greek offer is a basis for a compromise
16 juni 2015 – Andrew Watt is Head of the Department Macroeconomic Policy Institute in the Hans-Böckler Foundation. In his column Reach A Deal! The Greek Offer Is A Basis For A Compromise he suggests that an honourable compromise is within reach. Broadly the proposals made by Greece in the macroeconomic area…
D. Killemaes: Athene, het Waterloo van de euro
N. Devletoglou: Stop the victimization of Greek people
17 juni 2015 – Nikos Devletoglou, emeritus professor of Economics, University of Athens, is wondering: “Wouldn’t the extra ‘reforms’ of Greece’s creditors also create in the end masses of freshly victimized Greek citizens practically sharing today the fate of many thousands of undocumented immigrants critically encumbering the country today? Read the complete…