One of the areas where Greece made some of its greatest strides during the past 50 years has been in foreign policy, the second day of the “50 Years of the Metapolitefsi” conference heard on Friday.
METAPOLITEFSI: 50 YEARS
A question hovers over the conference on the 50 years since the restoration of democracy, known as the Metapolitefsi, which began Thursday.
The second day of the conference, commemorating the 50th anniversary of the restoration of Greek democracy – a period known as the Metapolitefsi – is under way Friday at the National Gallery in Athens.
New Democracy bears a “huge responsibility” for its populism in undermining his government after Greece’s financial woes became known and for prolonging the country’s bailout regime, former prime minister George Papandreou has said.
Former conservative prime minister Antonis Samaras believes that the country’s lenders pulled the plug on his government in late 2014 so as to prevent Greece from exiting the bailout agreements before Alexis Tsipras and SYRIZA came to power.
The second day of the conference, commemorating the 50th anniversary of the restoration of Greek democracy – a period known as the Metapolitefsi – is under way Friday at the National Gallery in Athens.
Has the Metapolitefsi period concluded? What lessons does it impart? Is its overall legacy positive? These are they key questions that guided the discussions on the inaugural day of the conference titled “50 Years of the Metapolitefsi.”
The second day of the conference commemorating the 50th anniversary of the restoration of Greek democracy – a period known as the Metapolitefsi – is being held on Friday at the National Gallery in Athens.
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis (l), Kathimerini Executive Editor Alexis Papachelas (center) and the head of the National Bank Cultural Foundation (MIET), Kostas Kostis, take part in a discussion during the “50 Years of the Metapolitefsi” conference in Athens on Thursday.
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis highlighted his commitment to a political agenda of reforms that “will never be reversed” during his discussion with Kostas Kostis, director of MIET and and professor of economics and social history at the University of Athens, and Alexis Papahelas, executive editor of Kathimerini, at the “50 Years of the Metapolitefsi” conference in Athens on Thursday.
A three-day conference commemorating the 50th anniversary of the restoration of Greek democracy – a period known as the Metapolitefsi – got under way on Thursday at the National Gallery in Athens.
“I tried to provide solutions in the way I could,” said Panagiotis Pikrammenos, reflecting on his time as caretaker prime minister during the Greek debt crisis.
A public opinion poll presented on the first day of a three-day conference on “50 Years of the Metapolitefsi” in Athens on Thursday examines different generational perspectives on Greece’s return to democracy after the fall of the 1967-1974 military dictatorship.
A three-day conference commemorating the 50th anniversary of the restoration of Greek democracy – a period known as the Metapolitefsi – got under way on Thursday at the National Gallery in Athens.
A three-day conference commemorating the 50th anniversary of the restoration of Greek democracy – a period known as the Metapolitefsi – got underway on Thursday at the National Gallery in Athens.
We Greeks tend to overreact and be too harsh on ourselves. We often overlook or quickly forget successes and accomplishments, but are quick to find faults and failures.
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