TMO Tags: greece
Changing The Public Discourse – The Greek and French Elections
Friday, May 11th, 2012William Wall argues that election results in France and Greece puts the left/right discourse firmly back on the map, after thirty years of right-wing hegemony. What is happening is the radicalisation of public discourse, a possibility that terrifies those who benefit most from the status quo. The Eighth of May was the Fête de la Victoire in France. [...]
This shameful sacrifice of Greece to the gods of the market
Monday, February 13th, 2012The behaviour of the EU states towards Greece is inexplicable in the terms in which the EU defines itself. It is, first and foremost, a failure of solidarity. The ‘austerity package’, as the newspapers like to call it, seeks to impose on Greece terms that no people can accept. Even now the schools are running [...]
Harmony
Monday, May 11th, 2009It’s old news now but still worth quoting: Greece passed in January 2005 a ‘media transparency law’ that would have prevented 1% owners of media companies from participating in public sector contracts. In April 2005, the European Commission told Greece that the law violated EU law and threatened to freeze funds for Greek public works [...]
The Trouble with the Greeks
Friday, December 12th, 2008Gazeta Wyborcza’s man on Greece is Jacek Pawlicki. He has recovered somewhat from the shock of his interview on Wednesday with a Polish shopkeeper in Greece. Asked whether she feared for the safety of her shop the redoubtable lady said no, the rioters were only targeting the likes of multinational chains and banks. And your [...]
Capitalist Tools
Friday, October 27th, 2006Gazeta Wyborcza‘s motto is “Nam nie jest wszystko jedno,” or “it’s not all the same to us.” The crusading force is strong in this one. There was the schools campaign (motto: the inspired “class with class”), which I am told was a nightmare of added paperwork for the teachers involved — which was nearly all [...]
