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In today’s Daily Comment, Steve Coll looks at the E.U. proposal to cull from the bank accounts of Greek Cypriots: “In its foolishness, the proposal exposed in plain light a strain of ugly discrimination—is it too much to call it racism?—that continues to run through German, Finnish, and other northern-European attitudes toward the Union’s southern debtors.” Continue reading: http://nyr.kr/102lydu
Photograph by Kostas Tsironis/Bloomberg/Getty.
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Cartoon by David Borchart. For more from this week’s issue: http://nyr.kr/WXLWGl
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Cartoon by Shannon Wheeler. For more from this week’s issue: http://nyr.kr/TrYPp8
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“Asylum doesn’t work.”
Not for Greece, at least. The country has been saddled not only with unmanageable debts, austerity budgets, and German condescension but also with the frontline burdens of a broken European Union asylum and migration regime that combines high ideals with deep denial…
In today’s Daily Comment, Steve Coll looks at ‘The Other Greek Crisis’: asylum seekers in Greece: http://nyr.kr/P1nRbJ
Photograph by Moises Saman/Magnum Photos.
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The photographer Platon is known for his portraits of powerful leaders such as Vladimir Putin and world-changing figures such as the Little Rock Nine. But it was a much more personal project that brought us into his studio earlier this summer, where he showed us a body of work he’d created over the past twenty years during trips to his childhood home in the Greek Islands.
As part of the celebration of Photo Booth’s redesign this week, here is the first installment of a new video series of studio visits with photographers: a behind-the-scenes look at Platon’s “Greece,” which will be exhibited for the first time at Colette, in Paris, this November.
Click-through for a slideshow of Platon’s “Greece,” and more from Maria Lokke and Photo Booth: http://nyr.kr/ROmFr7
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More Slog Ahead After the Greek Election→
Evidently, there is a long way to go before confidence is restored. To anybody who has been following this long-running saga, that shouldn’t be too surprising. The first rule of European politics is that nothing changes quickly. The second rule is that what happens to small and peripheral countries, such as Greece and Ireland, is largely a sideshow. What really counts is the fate of Italy and Spain, the two big southern economies.
Click-through to read more from John Cassidy on what’s to come following the Greek elections: http://nyr.kr/MBarDy
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Political Scene Podcast: Can We Learn from Europe’s Mistakes?
We still have about five more months of watching Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama campaign to convince Americans that the other is the wrong choice to fix the country’s economy. But politicians in Greece only have a few days win over their fellow-citizens. And the rest of the world is watching. On this week’s Political Scene podcast, John Lanchester and James Surowiecki join Dorothy Wickenden to discuss the political and economic ramifications of the Greece’s debt crisis: http://nyr.kr/M9hGOS
(Source: newyorker.com / The New Yorker)
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John Cassidy writes, “Greek Chaos Threatens the World Economy- and Obama”:
On the face of things, it seems silly to suggest that what happens in a country that is five thousand miles away and has just eleven million people—half the population of the New York metropolitan area—could have an impact on the mighty U.S. economy. But if we’ve learned (or relearned) one thing in the past few years, it is that modern economies are closely interconnected. What happens to Greece matters for the rest of Europe, and what happens to Europe matters for the rest of the world, us included. Contagion and the threat of contagion are facts of modern life.
Read the rest of Cassidy’s post here.
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