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Two Germans Turn Greek Crisis into a Board Game

Nikolai Diekerts, 28, and Julian Schärdel, 29, are friends and they share a common passion: board games. However, they are interested in finding new games that escape the mainstream board game market rules and promote their own ideas. It appears...

Former Greek PM Simitis: Austerity Policies of the North Led to the European Crisis

His opinion that Europe has lost the necessary balance between the markets and state institutions expressed Former Greek Prime Minister Costas Simitis in an article published in Greek newspaper "Efimerida Ton Syntakton." As he highlighted, ever since the northern European...

Europe's "Hope Ceiling"

By Ioannis Patrikakis* The current state of affairs in the Euro zone clashes with the basic principles of Aristotelian Ethics philosophy. Aristotle is describing a "flourishing state of the mind," (Evdaimonia), as the perfect aspiration for all human beings. After...

Greece, EU Countries Face Brain Drain

Europe's continuing economic problems, which have especially hard hit countries such as Greece, Portugal, Italy and Spain, has resulted not only in record unemployment but many young and skilled people and professionals fleeing to other countries for a new...

Harvard Professor Niall Ferguson on Radio National

Professor Ferguson has delivered his first lecture,  at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is discussing the demise of democracy in the west and the huge debt we are leaving our children. If only history had been...

Greek and European Crisis: The Key Milestones

From the first Greek bailout until the upcoming EU summit, there were some important touchpoints for the protracted governmental debt crisis in Europe's 17-nation euro currency bloc. We have summarized them below: February 2, 2010: Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou proposes new...

European Leaders Call for Tighter Fiscal Control

Key European leaders are calling for much tighter central control of spending by the 17 countries that use the euro in the latest effort to resolve the continent's unrelenting debt crisis. Four officials produced the plan Tuesday - European Council...

Der Spiegel: Greeks and Spanish are Europe’s Most Pessimistic Citizens

The German magazine Der Spiegel recently published an article entitled "Euro-crisis: Germans are afraid of their kids' future" which reported on the general financial situation of Europe and its impact on the mood of its citizens. The German article is...

Biden Arrives in Crisis-hit Greece Amid Feelings of Anger and Hope

U.S. Vice President Joe Biden arrived Sunday in Greece, as a new interim government seeks to halt the country's economic upheaval that has had ripple effects across the globe. Ahead of a critical week in the European debt crisis, Vice...

European "Union": Goodnight and Good Luck, Greece

"You either keep your word and push the mid-term program immediately or you will not be given the next trench", said Troika officials to George Papandreou and Evangelos Venizelos. Surely it must[...]