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Loose tongue
There is a lot of talk about the political motives behind Archbishop Christodoulos's remarks during his sermon at the church of Aghia Varvara on Thursday. Some read in his public language an ambition to form and lead a political and ideological movement with conservative, nationalist and xenophobic elements. |
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COMMENTARY |
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Enigmatic Simitis
Political commentators have put much effort lately into deciphering Prime Minister Costas Simitis's nebulous remarks over whether he will head the PASOK party in the coming elections. For reasons that only he is aware of, the premier refrained from making an unambiguous remark along the lines of: «I will lead PASOK in the elections.» |
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A ‘kind of solution’?
So, the «barbarians» really were, and remain today, «a kind of solution» - as C.P. Cavafy observed in his famous poem - to every problem, real or spurious, political or religious.
Sharing this view, and aggravated by his chronic dispute with the Ecumenical Patriarchate, Archbishop Christodoulos declared that the «barbarian» Turks should remain outside Europe.
It is unacceptable, he proclaimed, that the «barbaric Turks» should become members of a unified Europe - those who «impaled and roasted on a spit not only (Greek war of independence hero) Athanassios Diakos but also Saint Serapheim.» He was just rehashing established opinions. |
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