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Published in: openDemocracyUKResettling scores: internationals in the UCU strike“No more discipline, life’s magical” … has been singing in my head as I see colleagues laugh in the face of the...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The power play behind the FYROM disputeWith Tsipras hoping to become a 'Bismarck of the Balkans', this dispute is a political tool for parties from all...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Macedonia and rightwing banality: history as myth machineIn Thessaloniki this January a libertarian squat was burnt down during a “march for Macedonia”. Who was marching ?...
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Published in: 50.50Golden Dawn Girls documentary gives new voice to women in Greece's far-right eliteWhy would women connected to leaders of the extreme nationalist party invite documentary cameras into their homes,...
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Published in: HomeLet’s not ‘politicise’: let’s skill"We are very aware, when it comes to the whole Greek experience, that one of the problems the political left faces...
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Published in: HomeCombatting loss: refugees, employment and social entrepreneurship in TurkeyTurkey, at the crossroads of refugee flows, hosts 3.4 million refugees, while not granting them refugee status but a...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Western Thrace: where your way of life is governed by a hundred year old treatyI don’t know if the Treaty of Lausanne is anachronistic. I am, however, certain that what needs to be revised is the...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The European Left in times of crises: lessons from GreeceThe prospect of government did not generate or impose novel thinking, practices, or behaviours within the Greek left.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Kafka in Greece: a struggle against tax bureaucracyFaced with Greece's near-impossible loan repayments, the country's Tax Authority is using highly dubious methods to...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?'It's a sense of adventure' - How Vouliwatch is reinventing politics in GreeceVouliwatch is a new online platform which is revolutionising politics in Greece by introducing transparency and...
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Published in: HomeOne more time with feeling, in AthensNick Cave's fearlessness in visiting darkness makes the light shine brighter.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Shadowboxing over the Greek Civil WarBoth the Greek government and the opposition have resorted to the usual shadowboxing over Greece's Civil War past....
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Should we close our worlds? Or open them out?Cities need an overarching, positive narrative that binds all people to where they live, and where day to day...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?“If the company wants the pipeline to pass through our region, it will first have to pass over our bodies.”The Trans Adriatic Pipeline (TAP) crosses highly fertile agricultural land in northeast Greece. We travelled to...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Winterization in Kara Tepe camp, LesvosDepending so highly on a single donor makes UNHCR the operational arm of the EU’s shortsighted policies. This is the...
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Published in: 50.50Reproductive rights on the move: refugee women in Greece struggle to access contraceptionHalf of female asylum-seekers in Europe are aged 18-34. With little control over their environments, how can they...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Turning the Macedonian tables: what if the solution to the identity issue is the basis for solving the name of the state?Perhaps an identity-related distinction rather than a geographical one could resolve the dispute more swiftly and on...
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Published in: HomeThe politics of feelingsA meditation on the ‘millennials’ and several of the discussions at Team Syntegrity 2017.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Punish the smuggler or reward the smuggler? Recent refugee arrivals in Greece
As its northern and western neighbours close their doors to asylum seekers through policies, borders and distance,...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaSeeking refuge in refugeesGlimpses of life in a Greek refugee camp through the diary of a young volunteer.
