The following is my translation of an article by Tasos Iliadakis, first published on January 25 2010 in the daily paper ‘The Country’ in Crete.

- all those who forget the past cannot have a future
A. The background
During the early 1940s, Berlin, in order to have financial means of securing its strategic objectives in the Balkans, [...]

Strikes and more strikes confront the social-democratic PASOK Government in Greece
Public sector workers, supported by many Trade Unionists from the private sector responded massively yesterday, Wednesday February 10th, to their Union call for a 24-hour strike in Athens. At the same time, leaders of the two Greek left wing organisations Syriza and the Greek Communist [...]

The Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou, in a ‘State of the Nation’ type TV appearance yesterday, Tuesday Feb. 2nd, announced three drastic new austerity measures that seem to have taken aback most  political commentators. These three measures had been dismissed as “unworkable” by the PM himself as late as last weekend and were certainly not [...]

The following is my translation of an interview with Mr. Meletios Apostolides, the Greek Cypriot architect whose family had been forced to abandon their house, orchard and land in Lapithos, north Cyprus in the wake of the Turkish military operation in 1974. Mr. Apostolides recently won the case against the Orams, a British couple who [...]

The British Court of Appeal (Civil Division) with its judgement in the Apostolides v Orams case (Case No: A2/2006/2114) on 19 January 2010 has created an unexpected new legal situation in the ongoing struggle in Cyprus between Greek-Cypriot owners of property who had been forced to flee in 1974 and whose land had been grabbed [...]

As another Summit has come and gone, and EU leaders continue to grapple with the issue of Turkey’s accession to the European Union, I want to focus on two related events that took place simultaneously in Turkey and Cyprus, towards the end of last week.
a. On the night of Thursday Dec. 10th, a very professional [...]

One of the most important items in the Brussels Agenda, during the meetings beginning today, Monday Dec. 7th,  and due to conclude with the Friday Summit is the issue of Turkey’s possible future membership of the European Union.
Turkey’s relationship with the EU is, in the view of this writer, an absolutely crucial strategic item for [...]

In last Sunday’s elections, Greece’s major social-democratic party PASOK has been returned to power, while the governing New Democracy, the traditional right wing party, suffered its worst ever defeat in its 25-year history. PASOK leader George Papandreou, son of Andreas Papandreou, becomes Prime Minister, while Kostantin Karamanlis, only two years since his re-lection, is dealt [...]