Nicolas Mottas
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July 16, 2011
The existence of the Guantánamo Bay detention camp, two years after the election of President Obama, consists a humiliation of human rights worldwide and a remnant of Imperialism at its worst kind.
June 05, 2011
In times of harsh neoliberal austerity and limited national sovereingty, the denial to pay an odious and illegitimate debt is a moral, political and social need.
May 07, 2010
The ongoing debt crisis has proved that Greece passes its most significant economic, political and moreover institutional crisis since 1974. But, moreover, it means the end of the 36 years-long era of 'Metapolitefsis'.
October 29, 2009
"Democratic societies do not negotiate with Terrorists", Michalis Chrisohoidis, Athens; October 28, 2009.
When Savvas Xiros was captured by police officers on July 29th 2002, at the port of Piraeus, the action of the notorious 'Revolutionary Organization November 17th' was coming to an end after ...
September 23, 2009
Henry Kissinger is perhaps the most controversial U.S. Secretary of State of the 20th Century. Like any famous political personality he has two sides, one bright and one darker: The prominent Harvard Scholar, father of the so-called 'realpolitik' doctrine who became an expert in International Relati...
July 28, 2009
On the occasion of Mikis Theodorakis' 84th birthday, Nicolas Mottas writes about the world-renowed Greek composer.
July 18, 2009
What the European Union needs is a truly pro-Unionist new President who has the credentials to contribute effectively to the proper function of the Treaty of Lisbon. That person is definitely not Tony Blair.
June 09, 2009
Something goes wrong with Europe's Socialist and Progressive political powers. Their recent defeat in a European-wide election, along with the worrying rise of the Conservative and Right Wing parties and alliances, create a foreboding perspective for EU's Center Left.
May 18, 2009
Forty-six years since the assassination of the Greek parliamentarian and anti-War activist Gregoris Lambrakis, his Democratic Legacy continues to inspire political ideals.
May 12, 2009
In a few weeks from now, 27 countries will vote for their European Parliament representatives. According to polls in member-states, Europeans will make their choices, based more on their domestic (national) political issues and less on the Union's affairs. For professor Simon Hix of the London Schoo...
February 23, 2009
The date has been announced. On June 20th, the New Acropolis Museum of Athens will be inaugurated, opening its gates to the public. Crouching at the foot of the Acropolis rock, the brand new Museum is consisting the forefront of Greece's continual effort for the restoration of the Parthenon Marbles...
February 13, 2009
At first sight the international economic crisis vindicates the supporters of state interventionism's theory. While Capitalism's values are into doubt, the world is waiting for alternative solutions which could bring the global economic system out of today's difficult situation. The main ideological...
November 30, 2008
After a period of inactivity, the Cyprus Issue comes again to the front. The recent meetings between the Greek Cypriot President Christofias and Turkish Cypriot leader Talat (photo) create a new framework within which we can examine, once again, some parametres of the 34 years-old unsolved Issue.
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November 04, 2008
When this article will be published, the 44th President of the United States of America will have been elected by the American citizens. Europe and the rest of the World awaits for the November 4th results, hoping that the slogan of 'Change' will soon become practice. The eight years-long administra...
October 26, 2008
It was in 1801 when the then British ambassador in Constantinople, Thomas Bruce (the known as Lord Elgin), obtained a firman from the Ottoman authorities taking permission to remove sculptures from the Athens' Parthenon.
Two centuries later - in fact 207 years later - the British capital, London...
October 21, 2008
One of the most significant decades-long problem in South Eastern Europe is the irripresible political use of history and national symbols by region's governments. The case of 'Macedonia' is an example of the above assumption. Since its birth as a state entity in 1991, just after the dissolution of ...
October 12, 2008
In June 2003 the EU-Western Balkans Summit in Halkidiki, northern Greece, set a significant aim: the perspicuous committment of Brussels to offer any possible and reasonable assistance to the states of South Eastern Europe, fortifying their European perspective (Article 2, Thessaloniki Declaration)....
October 08, 2008
When Turkey began talks with Brussels on the perspective of joining the European Union on October 2005, the Ecumenical Patriarch, Bartholomew I, was among the first who expressed his support to Ankara's European route. The spiritual leader of almost 300 million Orthodox Christians remains an unfalte...