Author: Vera Koronaki This article is part of GEJ’s special ‘print edition’ which you can download or order from www.gef.eu. This print edition maps green debates in four topics that are crucial to Europe’s future: sustainability, solidarity, hospitality and federalism. This article discusses solidarity: how we define it beyond the national and utilitarian limits ? ORIGINS OF SOLIDARITY …
Author: Kostas Loukeris The first time I travelled to Western Europe in the 1980s, I was surprised by – among other things – the fact that fruits and vegetables looked so beautiful and at the same time they were tasteless. Their shape was geometrically perfect and their colour as if painters had been engaged in …
Author: Kostas Loukeris Would you have your car fixed by the same mechanics that gave it back to you before, with more problems than when you brought it in to them in the first place? Would you trust those who lied to you over and over again, giving unfulfilled promises? Would you judge your politicians …
Η μη βίαιη πολιτική ανυπακοή μπορεί να έχει διάφορες μορφές: το ξερίζωμα γενετικά τροποποιημένων οργανισμών, το «κατέβασμα» διαφημιστικών πινακίδων, τους κλόουν ακτιβιστές, το ξεφούσκωμα ελαστικών σε μεγάλα 4×4 της πόλης, την επιθεώρηση πυρηνικών εργοστασίων από πολίτες, την παρουσία ερασιτεχνών του θεάματος. Τον οικολογικό ακτιβισμό, τη στέγαση μεταναστών χωρίς χαρτιά. Οι νέες αυτές μορφές πολιτικής δράσης …
Author: Kostas Loukeris The Greek elections that took place on May 6, 2012 signaled cataclysmic political changes that mark the end of the two-party political system that ruled Greece from 1974, when Parliamentary democracy was restored, until now. Since May 6th, ‘political time’ in Greece seems extremely compact and for someone to express expectations or …
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