With a fresh mandate from his people after last week’s Sunday snap elections, Alexis Tsipras left for the United States on Saturday for a trip that may prove to be very useful for his second time in office
I spent the whole month of August and the first part of September in Athens.
“He is the age of my son! He was the only one who stood against those monsters in Europe, look how tired he looks; he does not smile any longer. You will see; he will be a national leader. We have not had any for many, many years! ”
A new word has been recently added to the rich Greek vocabulary: “Varoufakism.”
For technical reasons this column was written before the announcement of the results of yesterday’s critical referendum in Greece.
I had thought the storm between Greece and its creditors would end last week
Last week, I had to call my bank in Athens. I talked to a helpful lady who dealt with my query immediately
With a leftist-based government in power since January, the results of last Sunday’s general elections in Turkey were seen in Greece largely as a victory for democracy and a defeat of autocracy.
“Look, a Turkish flag!” shouted my Turkish partner who was driving the car as we were descending the single road that would take us to Hora, the main port of Ithaki, the island of the cunning Odysseus
