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inside greece news and opinion from greece inside greece news and opinion from greece skip to content home about inside greece older posts move on up posted on september 27 2013 2 comments first of all i apologise for my absence from inside greece for the last few weeks i can assure you that after posting on this blog at least once a week over the last four years it has felt strange to neglect it there is however a good reason for this after 274 blog posts and more than 2 300 comments it is time for inside greece to become part of something bigger and more comprehensive i am part of a team effort involving several colleagues and friends to provide economic and political analysis about events in greece our new website www macropolis gr launched this week you can find out more about what we aim to do here this blog has been viewed by almost 170 000 people since it began in september 2009 back then my aim was simply to create an archive for the commentaries i wrote for athens plus over time inside greece has evolved into something much more important for me the feedback and interaction with readers has been the blog s lifeblood and has helped my development immeasurably inside greece s cycle is now complete but much of what i learnt and enjoyed here will be incorporated in macropolis we have already created a blog section which is called the agora and can be found here i have already made my first entry and hope you will also join the discussion and read what others write there as well i appreciate that being able to subscribe to this blog has helped many readers keep in touch with what i ve been writing and i m happy to say that subscribing to the posts on the agora is equally easy it can be done by clicking here in the meantime many thanks for taking the time to read and comment on my thoughts over the past few years it s time to move on up nick share this email a link to a friend opens in new window email print opens in new window print share on reddit opens in new window reddit share on pinterest opens in new window pinterest share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on x opens in new window x share on linkedin opens in new window linkedin share on tumblr opens in new window tumblr like loading 2 comments posted in uncategorized when us presidents meet greek premiers tales of high significance and low expectations posted on august 8 2013 4 comments white house photo by joyce naltchayan as he rides up pennsylvania avenue in washington on thursday greek prime minister antonis samaras might allow himself a wry smile for so long an outcast of greek politics and more recently a pariah among european peers samaras has seen international leaders rally around him since he came to power last june and now the big one a meeting with barack obama in the white house leaving aside the moment s personal prestige samaras is actually following a well trodden path which has led greek premiers from athens to the white house over the course of eight decades since konstantinos tsaldaris left the civil war behind in december 1946 to visit harry truman and ask for financial and military assistance eight greek leaders have made a beeline to washington in the hope of finding some succour in fact costas simitis who met george w bush in 2002 is probably the only greek prime minister who arrived with something to offer the ex pasok leader gave bush a new euro coin and a sweat shirt with the athens2004 olympics logo on it samaras will be in washington when congress is not in session some have seen this along with the fact he was not offered a working lunch with obama as a sign that his visit is of minor importance the greek premier however can take comfort in knowing that his arrival will be less of an inconvenience to the us president than the april 1961 visit of constantine karamanlis the conservative leader was having lunch with john f kennedy at the white house on the same day that the failed bay of pigs invasion was launched in cuba continue reading share this email a link to a friend opens in new window email print opens in new window print share on reddit opens in new window reddit share on pinterest opens in new window pinterest share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on x opens in new window x share on linkedin opens in new window linkedin share on tumblr opens in new window tumblr like loading 4 comments posted in diplomacy greece greek politics tagged andreas papandreou barack obama bill clinton constantine karamanlis costas mitsotakis costas simitis diplomacy george bush george papandreou greece harry truman john f kennedy us president usa washington white house no debate please we re european posted on august 8 2013 4 comments on the eve of greece agreeing its first eu imf bailout in may 2010 the ceo of investment firm pimco mohamed el erian expressed doubts about the package what it demanded of greece and whether the europeans would be able to manage the process this is a daunting challenge he wrote in the financial times the numbers involved are large and getting larger the sociopolitical stakes are high and getting higher and the official sector has yet to prove itself effective at crisis management el erian raised the issue of private sector involvement or psi almost two years before it happened and warned the eurozone that it was walking into a potential disaster what started out as a public finance issue is quickly turning into a banking problem too and what started out as a greek issue has become a full blown crisis for europe he wrote this week bloomberg revealed that pimco has been selling the dutch bonds it was holding until now a financial aaa rated safe haven in the eurozone crisis the netherlands bond yields are edging upward its coalition is under pressure and austerity fatigue is apparently setting in el erian s warning in may 2010 that the greek debt crisis would morph into something much broader has been proved correct continue reading share this email a link to a friend opens in new window email print opens in new window print share on reddit opens in new window reddit share on pinterest opens in new window pinterest share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on x opens in new window x share on linkedin opens in new window linkedin share on tumblr opens in new window tumblr like loading 4 comments posted in economy european union greece tagged enrico letta euro european central bank european commission eurozone greek bailout greek crisis international monetary fund mohamed el erian pimco viviane reding ring of fire posted on july 27 2013 11 comments i want my life back now was one of the chants heard at a teachers rally on friday when they protested against job transfers and sackings in the civil service it s been clear over the last three years that our daily comforts as small as they may have been are slipping away one by one and being replaced by uncertainty or even worse dead ends to be alarmed by this is only human we shouldn t forget though that for some greeks the wish of having their life back is not a slogan but the basis for their epitaph the death of three employees at the stadiou street branch of marfin egnatia bank in central athens remains one of the most shocking moments of this crisis coming on may 5 2010 shortly after greece agreed its first bailout agreement with the troika the arson attack on the bank and the deaths of angeliki papathanasopoulou 32 vivi zoulia 34 and 36 year old nondas tsakalis serve as one of the bookends for this crisis when the other will arrive marking the culmination of this exacting period nobody can be sure in the meantime greece has to deal with the fallout from its dire situation and the truth is it hasn t done that particularly well the fact that the hooded arsonists who smashed the windows of marfin bank during an anti austerity protest and then set fire to the building are still at large is symptomatic of the country s failure to deal with some of its most obvious problems that it is unable to provide justice for three of its young people denotes wider failings in caring for this generation bright hardworking and foreign educated papathanasopoulou zoulia and tsakalis had much to offer but greece tragically missed out it is missing out in a similar way as more young greeks with similar qualities and who have the skills to be agents of change abandon the country due to a lack of opportunities and eclipsing faith in decision makers continue reading share this email a link to a friend opens in new window email print opens in new window print share on reddit opens in new window reddit share on pinterest opens in new window pinterest share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on x opens in new window x share on linkedin opens in new window linkedin share on tumblr opens in new window tumblr like loading 11 comments posted in greece greek politics tagged athens greece greek crisis marfin fire new democracy rioting syriza is vat all you ve got posted on july 20 2013 4 comments grabbing a coffee for 20 cents less doesn t really sound like the start of an economic recovery but who knows maybe after this week s decision to cut value added tax at restaurants and cafes greece will soon be measuring out its success with coffee spoons naturally the government has made the most of the skeptical troika finally giving in on a longstanding greek demand for vat in the food service sector to be reduced from 23 to 13 percent even so prime minister antonis samaras announcing the temporary measure in a televised address was a touch excessive given he only informed the nation that a nightclub drink would soon be about 50 cents cheaper for the government though the symbolism of the reduction is perhaps more important than its economic impact samaras presented it as a personal triumph of persistence deputy prime minister evangelos venizelos said it was a sign that the troika had begun listening to greece indeed the vat reduction represents something of a milestone in the greek bailout program as tax hikes have been the norm and a regular source of much anger over the last three years it was billed as the first tax cut since the program began which is not quite accurate technically it was the second as a 15 percent reduction in the emergency property tax introduced in 2011 had been agreed a couple of months earlier this came after pressure from democratic left which was still part of the coalition at the time there was no televised address though continue reading share this email a link to a friend opens in new window email print opens in new window print share on reddit opens in new window reddit share on pinterest opens in new window pinterest share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on x opens in new window x share on linkedin opens in new window linkedin share on tumblr opens in new window tumblr like loading 4 comments posted in economy greece greek politics tagged antonis samaras company tax 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