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Civil society tends to become a sort of artificial reservoir for an endangered species: the democratic intellectual, protected by the international institutions

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Alex Rondos

Alex Rondos served as an adviser to the former foreign minister of Greece, George Papandreou, and was an ambassador until the March 2004 elections in Greece.

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