(following the article regarding the most critical February of recent Greek history) While clubs all around the world are more or less the same, Greeks traditionally enjoy their music in “clubs” structured differently. Their unique “bouzoukia” is a combination of concert, restaurant and club. A singer singing live, a large dance floor and the clients ..

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October 1981. Athens, Constitution Square. In his historical speech, Andreas Papandreou, leader of the Socialist party PASOK promised to Greeks anything possible, whatever they could imagine. Hundreds of thousands were screaming “EOK kai NATO, to idio syndikato” (European Union and NATO represent the same syndicate), following Papandreou’s rhetoric of Greece abandoning its pro western orientation, ..

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Last year Romania had a great chance to take advantage of neighbors’ problems and rise as an economic power in the South Eastern Europe. Instead, the vast majority of Romanian politicians did anything possible to spend the country’s potential and lose great ground. Finally, at the year-end, the atmosphere calmed and in the dawn of ..

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  I found a leaflet a few days ago. It belongs to an NGO that is “training people to become entrepreneurs”. I read it carefully, especially because it was addressed to women. I was curious to find out what advice Romanian ladies receive, in order to enter the business world. Unfortunately I was disappointed. “You ..

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