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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Kafka in Greece: a struggle against tax bureaucracy
Faced 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 Greece
Vouliwatch 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 Athens
Nick 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 War
Both 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, Lesvos
Depending 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 contraception
Half 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 feelings
A 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 refugees
Glimpses of life in a Greek refugee camp through the diary of a young volunteer.
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Published in: 50.50What could a multi-million euro arts festival offer struggling communities in Greece?
The world-class €37 million Documenta arts festival comes to Athens – and brings challenging questions about art’s...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Adults in the Room, by Yanis Varoufakis (London: The Bodley Head, 2017)
A lot, maybe the future of Europe, depends on how you read the opening conversation with Larry Summers in ‘one of...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Finis Europae? Historical cycles and the rise of right wing populism
Why has Europe failed to inspire its citizens in a similar way to other ideas such as the nation, socialism or human...
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Published in: HomeIt is time to move beyond the Dublin logic
Dublin IV is built on deterrence… the overriding imperative being to prevent asylum seekers from arriving...
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Published in: HomeBuilding new solidarities between movements: insurrectionary politics of food autonomy in the city of Athens
Their insurrectionary politics of autonomy, such as food autonomy in Athens, is crucial for building new...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?You can't evict a movement: a story of squatting and migration in Athens
An inside look at one of the most remarkable stories to come out of Greece's ongoing economic and refugee crisis -...
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Published in: Home'Exiles in the Aegean': a year after the EU–Turkey deal
The EU-Turkey deal turns one year old on 18 March. Has it achieved its intended purpose?
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Τhe European challenge: unity, return to growth and the social pillar
The White Paper presented by the President of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker a couple of weeks ago is...