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Monday, 15 April 2013

Greece, Little News Items



Telegraph article on Civil Servants

They will be replaced, Samaras (EnetEnglish)

Update on the precise terms of the memorandum agreement (Kathimerini)

Keep Talking Greece on "expressions of gratitude"

"Small gifts not bribes" (EnetEnglish)

Offshore dealings (Kathimerini)

IMF view of the economy (www.in.gr)

Migrant workers shot

BBC report

Kathimerini commentary

The big news item:

Simon Baddeley enjoyed a swim in Palaiokastritsa (from his blog, Democracy Street)

  Bravo Simon!
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Author of Words on the Table (207 poems); This Spinning World (45 Stories), Colenso Books; Reading the Signs (environmental poems); Corfu Blues (poems and essays); The Ionian Islands and Epirus, A Cultural History (Signal Books, Oxford, and OUP, USA, 2010); co-editor of Swedish Reflections, from Beowulf to Bergman; Dorset Voices (Roving Press, April 2012). Chapter in Greece and Britain Since 1945 (2010). Two chapters in The Ionian Islands: Aspects of their History and Culture, ed. Anthony Hirst and Patrick Sammon, Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 3) Grockles and Locals: Mutual Perceptions and the Reciprocal Gaze, A Corfu Case Study (40 page chapter for US book Tourism and Identity (Transaction Publishers, ed Gabriel Ricci, 2015). NB - The author of Corfu Blues is not responsible for the content of links or external sites.
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