The week before last, the Guardian advertised a package tour of crisis-stricken Greece. Interested parties could, for a significant price, visit refugees, NGOs and Greeks afflicted by the crisis; they…
“Battered for a decade, Greece feels an unexpected whiff of revival as Europe gains strength … It’s nearly springtime in Athens: Street trees are heavy with citrus, wildflowers are erupting…
A few days ago Washington hosted the policy conference of the most influential group for the enhancement of US-Israel partnership. The Israeli prime minister was again the guest of honour.…
The Hellenic Council of State, the supreme administrative court of Greece, has ruled that the 2016 curricular changes to Religious Education proposed by then-Minister of Education Nikos Filis–a risky move…
Two decades after the Six-Day War the Palestinian territories would witness the outbreak of widespread riots. The children of the stones tried to shake the occupation regime off their shoulders.…
As the relatively downgraded centenary festivities, the decision of Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn to snub them, the rejected demand of the Palestinian Authority for an official apology from London, and…
A petite boy called Diogenes has both of his hands tied with belts to his bed. Mary is 12 years old and has spent her entire life locked up in…
The route to the northern provinces of Rakhine state offers a breathtaking landscape of stunning rice fields that give a new meaning to the word green. You can lose yourself…
Last June, under threat that a payment of more than 8 billion euros would be withheld, the SYRIZA-ANEL government and Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos were called upon to legislate for…
Greece is back in the markets. The Greek debt management agency wants to tap the bond market again. But to do so Greece would obviously have to be solvent –…