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Since the immoral and illegal EU/Turkey Deal was enacted on 20 March 2016, it seems as if we have written almost once a week about the latest ‘threat’ from Recep Tayyip Erdogan, or the latest claim from the Greek government that Turkey has ‘opened the floodgates’ to let refugees move from Turkey to Greece. It cannot be so often. But in the wake of the latest threat from Turkey’s President, we felt it may be helpful and useful to gather and repeat some of the points most relev

People who like to deal in political aphorisms will tell you that the first weeks a government spends in power are its most important. Though – like most such ideas – this has its roots in the US, where campaigning eats roughly three-quarters of any presidential cycle, it is true that even in Europe, the early days are when a new administration seeks to set the markers from which it will build. In the case of the first two weeks since Nea Dimokratia regained power, the party

Despite increased discussion regarding a Greek economic ‘recovery’, it will take an extremely long time before the state bounces back from a period in which average household income has dropped by 27 per cent, unemployment is at 22 per cent, and one in three Greek businesses have gone bankrupt. Ominously for the current Greek government, Syriza is largely blamed for this, which is simultaneously unreasonable, because Syriza did not cause the crisis, or come up with the enforc