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The Greek Analyst @greekanalyst.bsky.social · 8h

The future of Greece

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The future of Greece

Planning ahead, and the large cost of short-term choices

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The Greek Analyst @greekanalyst.bsky.social · Jul 28

The EU-US trade deal reminded us that the EU is best described as a giant geopolitical potato.

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The Greek Analyst @greekanalyst.bsky.social · Jul 22

Very true.

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The Greek Analyst @greekanalyst.bsky.social · Jul 21

Eurostat data on Greek citizens: bsky.app/profile/gree...

The Greek Analyst @greekanalyst.bsky.social · Apr 11

I never thought I would live to see the day.

2023 was the year that Greece finally reversed its brain drain.

So… what now!?

Read the latest issue of my newsletter to find out.

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Greece's brain drain finally reversing

so... what now!?

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Catio Miles @catiomiles.bsky.social · Jul 21

Excellent news.

Greece has managed to turn things around and nobody but them were confident in Greece’s success

The Greek Analyst @greekanalyst.bsky.social · Jul 21

Greece’s brain drain is finally reversing

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The Greek Analyst @greekanalyst.bsky.social · Jul 21

Greece’s brain drain is finally reversing

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Gabriel Mitchell @gabiamitchell.bsky.social · Jul 13

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The Greek Analyst @greekanalyst.bsky.social · Jul 13

Greece (and the rest of Southern Europe) are set to experience a hotter August month than average.

www.meteo.gr/article_view...

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The Greek Analyst @greekanalyst.bsky.social · Jul 13

Greece (and the rest of Southern Europe) are set to experience a hotter August month than average.

www.meteo.gr/article_view...

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The Greek Analyst @greekanalyst.bsky.social · Jul 13

Greece takes stricter stance on migration following latest mass inflows from Libya.

www.ekathimerini.com/politics/127...

Greece will not become an unguarded gateway into Europe, says Mitsotakis | eKathimerini.com

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis addressed the issue of increased migrant arrivals on the island of Crete in his weekly social media post, stating that the government will not allow Greece to become...

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The Greek Analyst @greekanalyst.bsky.social · Jul 11

Amazing!

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The Greek Analyst @greekanalyst.bsky.social · Jul 11

Way to go Greece!

European Space Agency @esa.int · Jul 11

🛰️Psyche. Laser. Qu'est-ce que c'est ?

We have successfully established Europe's first deep-space optical communication link with NASA’s Psyche mission, located 265 million kilometres away.

We used two optical grounds stations developed for this purpose in Greece.

👉 www.esa.int/Enabling_Sup...

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The Greek Analyst @greekanalyst.bsky.social · Jul 11

That is very true, we are in agreement!

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The Greek Analyst @greekanalyst.bsky.social · Jul 11

I do agree that this is step up for sure!

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The Greek Analyst @greekanalyst.bsky.social · Jul 11

That's not really true. Europe is switching gears, both at a national and at a EU level. This is not just a Greek (or Mitsotakis) exception.

www.lamoncloa.gob.es/lang/en/gobi...

home-affairs.ec.europa.eu/news/italy-n...

etias.com/articles/eu-...

carnegieendowment.org/research/202...

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The Greek Analyst @greekanalyst.bsky.social · Jul 11

I wrote about the Greek diaspora. greekanalyst.substack.com/p/the-greek-...

The Greek diaspora

Very powerful yet highly under-appreciated

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The Greek Analyst @greekanalyst.bsky.social · Jul 11

Regardless of personal preference, my point is that this types of decisions with regards to mass migration, rather than Orban-like exceptions as some might paint them, are actually much more common and pragmatic dilemmas for the West (primarily EU and US). Which is why we might see the law changing.

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The Greek Analyst @greekanalyst.bsky.social · Jul 11

I am not a big fan of moral relativism, but at the same time, when circumstances change policymakers/states often end up shifting their thinking as well. This is how we got women voting rights in the 20th century and gay marriage in the 21st (both considered illegal just 2 centuries ago).

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The Greek Analyst @greekanalyst.bsky.social · Jul 11

Rule of law is not static, it changes, that's my point. We have seen that take place more recently in the US. Where we draw the line for basic humanity might differ btwn people (i.e. ask the same question to a Greek worker making minimum wage living in Omonia vs an open-borders advocate from Ekali).

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The Greek Analyst @greekanalyst.bsky.social · Jul 11

That is one POV. Another is that legal statutes that have been agreed in a very different world 100 years ago might end up changing due to the new reality of the day. Rule of law is a social construct and often a sign of the times (laws, in fact, change every year).

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The Greek Analyst @greekanalyst.bsky.social · Jul 11

"The system is not working. Designed for post-war Europe, it cannot cope with a world of proliferating conflict, cheap travel and huge wage disparities. Roughly 900m people would like to migrate permanently."

We could always see treatises agreed ~100y ago change.

www.economist.com/leaders/2025...

Scrap the asylum system—and build something better

Rich countries need to separate asylum from labour migration

www.economist.com

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The Greek Analyst @greekanalyst.bsky.social · Jul 11

We’ve crossed a new Overton Window on the migration debate

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The Greek Analyst @greekanalyst.bsky.social · Jul 10

Not sure it is relevant to their mandate!

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The Greek Analyst @greekanalyst.bsky.social · Jul 3

I often ponder how much more Kafkaesque Kafka’s work would have been, had he experienced the Greek public sector bureaucracy.

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The Greek Analyst @greekanalyst.bsky.social · Jun 30

A fine example of performance art.

Conor Sen @conorsen.bsky.social · Jun 30

This is going in the history books (or on Wikipedia I guess):

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The Greek Analyst @greekanalyst.bsky.social · Jun 29

Ένας δήμος δείχνει τον δρόμο απέναντι στην οικιστική, περιβαλλοντολογική και αρχιτεκτονική καταστροφή που συντελείται σε πολλές περιοχές της χώρας εξαιτίας του ΝΟΚ.

Giorgos Lialios @lialios.bsky.social · Jun 29

Οι σύλλογοι της Κηφισιάς συσπειρώνονται, βλέποντας την αρχιτεκτονική αλλοίωση και περιβαλλοντική υποβάθμιση της περιοχής τους. Και ζητούν απο τους βουλευτές του βορείου τομέα να παρεμβουν.

Κίνδυνος αλλοίωσης του χαρακτήρα της Κηφισιάς

Πέντε σύλλογοι της περιοχής απευθύνουν έκκληση στους βουλευτές του βόρειου τομέα για τα κτίρια που κατασκευάζονται με τα μπόνους του ΝΟΚ.

www.kathimerini.gr

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