Greece
Europe’s killing fields
The Greco-Turkish war took place 100 years ago – but historical accounts of those events obscure a disturbing truth, one that must be confronted
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The land of functional anarchy
Greece’s wildest peninsula, the Mani, is a place of mystery and ruined towers, where locals lived “a knife’s edge away from starvation”
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Dictators’ love of uniformity
How fascist leaders in Italy, Spain, Germany and Greece all tried to control the public by stifling linguistic variety
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Why does Greece want to jail the real-life heroine of The Swimmers?
One of the inspirations behind the acclaimed movie, Sara Mardini is on trial for helping other refugees
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“A knife’s edge away from starvation”
Greece’s wildest peninsular, the Mani, is a place of ruined towers and ‘functional anarchy’
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A need for earthquake diplomacy
Reconciliation between Turkey and Greece could be simple, despite historic enmities. But who has the political will?
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The eccentric Greek gentleman
Poet Constantine Cavafy took his own linguistic path as the argument over the form of written Modern Greek raged on
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The echoes of Nixon in Greece
A phone-tapping scandal threatens to end the rule of prime minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and give power back to a reinvigorated left
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Greek Tragedy: The battle to cool Athens
As the mercury climbs in the Greek capital and forest fires spark into life again, Athens’ chief heat officer worries about what summer will bring but tempers her fear with dreams of change in one of the world’s oldest named cities
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Greek roots of a seized city
PETER TRUDGILL explains how Catherine the Great’s ‘Greek Project’ led to the naming of Khersón
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Trigger warning: football club owner avoids jail over gun on pitch
News you might have missed from across Europe
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Where the Greek language lingered
Alexander the Great spread the language far and wide. But where
did it last the longest?
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Greek PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis: The battle for a sustainable future will be arduous but worth the fight
Ahead of the Med9 event in Athens, Greek prime minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis shares his thoughts on the escalating climate and environmental crisis
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Mikis Theodorakis: Zorba the Greek’s rebel composer
The composer prime minister
Kyriakos Mitsotakis called the "universal Greek" died last week. Few have had the relationship with revolution that Theodorakis did, writes SOPHIA DEBOICK
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Europe arms itself in race against the third wave
After a slow start, millions of people across EU countries are now receiving their vaccine – with almost a quarter of people across the bloc having had at least one dose of a Covid-19 shot. That relatively good news – though vaccine progress still lags far behind that of the UK – is marred by […]