The Macedonia hot potato was gingerly passed around by a lot of old hands at the EC meeting in Birmingham last month, and then placed on the Specialties de la Maison list being compiled for the Edinburgh Summit menu in December by which time, most hope, it will have cooled off though one wonders how.
Athenians last month swallowed hard when they heard that members of an Albanian mafia were out to kidnap gold medal champion weight-lifter Pyrrhus Dimas. Although born and raised in Albania (he only received a Greek passpost just before flying off to Barcelona), he is an ethnic Greek, and judging from his first name, probably of royal Epirot descent.
Ever since he sacked his foreign minister a few months ago and took the post
President of the European Commission Jacques Delors was in such a good mood when he came to Athens last month, it was almost as if he had brought a box of bonbons.
According to wise old Aristotle, catharsis is that good-all-over-feeling you get at the end of
Last year during the Gulf Crisis a bright little Hellinopoula looking at a map projected
There she is in the picture on the tin of Nounou condensed milk in her
The EC seems reluctant to enter into the dialectical arguments of Greece and the self-proclaimed republic of Macedonia. Matters appear to be sapping Slavic resistance.
In ancient times the slopes of Mount Hymettus buzzed with industrious bees which collected the most famous honey of antiquity. Today, the summits still buzz, but with the hundreds of radio transmission stations, many of which are producing things not so sweet – especially as far as the government is concerned.
Last spring this newspaper called its readers’ attention to a privately sponsored organization called “Plant Your Roots in Greece” which was collecting funds for national afforestation.
