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Europe's Return Re: your cover story "Where Did Europe Go?" [March 8]: This is the question that many Greek citizens like myself have been asking every day over the past few months. We were the 10th member state to join the idealized union of nations, which was supposed to unite us all under our common values and culture (which were most of them, incidentally, inspired by Hellenic heritage) in order to fight together for a better and fairer world. Or that was the story they sold us anyway. Where is the E.U. now that the Greeks need it? Where...
Optimistic after negotiating an emergency bailout deal with fellow E.U. member states, Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou sat down with TIME contributor Nicole Itano in his office at the Maximos Mansion in Athens this week. Highlights...
...Greeks who are expecting this change or the international community? Both, I think. First of all, the international community because in a sense in the European Union we have become a test case of both the euro - its survival - and how to deal with this high deficit in a time of crisis. It's not only a Greek problem. Our bad ways, if you like, or our difficulties or our wrong decisions, have exacerbated the problem of the international crisis in Greece. (Read: "Germany: Tensions...
People call you a decent man. But politics is not always a decent game. In the right and tumble world of Greek politics, is decency an effective political strategy? I've been in politics for quite a few years, it's getting close to 28 to 29 years. So the fact that they call me decent after 29 years shows you can be decent in politics. There is this concept of politics as a dirty game. It's a difficult game, but it doesn't have to be dirty. I think this is what we need to bring to politics...
Actually, we don't yet know who won the battle of Greek-myth fighting and rom-com fun. 20th Century Fox posted a weekend total for Date Night of $27.1 million at the North American box office, while Warner Bros. said that Clash of the Titans had earned $26,875,000. That's a difference of just $225,000, or less than 1%. The final, actual grosses will come out on Monday afternoon...