Tassos Symeonides
(RIEAS Academic Advisor)
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Let’s recap the facts for those who haven’t followed the Greek debacle consistently:
1. Greek administrations since the disastrous election of Papandreou’s socialists in October 2009 have done everything in their powers to tear Greece’s society and economy to shreds, with noted success.
Tassos Symeonides
(RIEAS Academic Advisor)
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The Greek foreign minister, Mr. Avramopoulos, speaking before parliament’s foreign relations committee announced the other day that “para-state organizations” are operating in Greek Thrace. Without naming them or providing any other detail about them, the FM “meant,” news report said, that these organizations are groups that work for Turkey, Greece’s neighbor and “friend.”
Tassos Symeonides
(RIEAS Academic Advisor)
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It is obvious that Mr. Samaras has set aside all that he was saying during his election campaign and continues on the path blazed by Papandreou, Papademos, et.al.: more crippling, blind austerity without the slightest relief for a moribund society.
John M. Nomikos
(RIEAS Director)
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During the first decade of the 21st century, as long as national and international security is concerned, terrorism remains a major issue. The events of September 11th 2001 in the USA, March 11th 2004 in Madrid, July 7th 2005 in London and most recently July 18th 2012 in Burgas, Bulgaria, indicate, or actually prove, that the distribution and analysis of information by those who are competent to eliminate international terrorism is inefficient.
Tassos Symeonides
(RIEAS Academic Advisor)
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One thing that was plainly clear since the beginning of the political-economic crisis that continues to consume Greece and her people was this: Such is the burden of the Greek sovereign debt that few, if any, countries, and certainly not Greece, could actually hope to muster enough resources to re-pay if not all at least an appreciable part of the loans.
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Though other parts of the continent are improving, Greece actually is worse up close than it appears from the outside, investor Wilbur Ross told CBNC.