#George Papandreou

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George Papandreou

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Comic Book Club: Claire Lordon, George Papandreou, And Nick Goode

On this week's live show podcast, we're welcoming guests Claire Lordon ("One in a Million"), George Papandreou ("Typical Campus"), and Nick Goode ("Sussex").

On this week’s live show podcast, we’re welcoming guests Claire Lordon (“One in a Million”), George Papandreou (“Typical Campus”), and Nick Goode (“Sussex”). SUBSCRIBE ON RSS, APPLE, ANDROID, SPOTIFY, OR THE APP OF YOUR CHOICE. FOLLOW US ON TWITTER, INSTAGRAM, TIKTOK, AND FACEBOOK. SUPPORT OUR SHOWS ON PATREON. Powered by RedCircle Claire Lordon Bio: Claire Lordon is an American-Canadian…

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Comic Book Club: Claire Lordon, George Papandreou, And Nick Goode

On this week's live show podcast, we're welcoming guests Claire Lordon ("One in a Million"), George Papandreou ("Typical Campus"), and Nick Goode ("Sussex").

On this week’s live show podcast, we’re welcoming guests Claire Lordon (“One in a Million”), George Papandreou (“Typical Campus”), and Nick Goode (“Sussex”). SUBSCRIBE ON RSS, APPLE, ANDROID, SPOTIFY, OR THE APP OF YOUR CHOICE. FOLLOW US ON TWITTER, INSTAGRAM, TIKTOK, AND FACEBOOK. SUPPORT OUR SHOWS ON PATREON. Powered by RedCircle Claire Lordon Bio: Claire Lordon is an American-Canadian…

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Τα μεν γαρ άλλα δεύτερα αν πάσχη γυνή, ανδρός δ’ αμαρτάνουσα, αμαρτάνει βίου.* - Euripides *Other misfortunes are secondary for a woman, but if she loses her husband, she loses her life.

Queen Anne-Marie of Greece is the widow of the late King Constantine II of Greece, who reigned from 1964 until 1973. She was born Princess Anne-Marie of Denmark on 30 August 1946.

Anne-Marie is the youngest daughter of King Frederick IX of Denmark and his wife Ingrid of Sweden. She is the youngest sister of the reigning Queen Margrethe II of Denmark and cousin of the reigning King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden.

In 1961, she spent a year at an English boarding school in Switzerland - the Chatelard School for Girls. In 1963, to improve her French, Queen Anne-Marie attended a Swiss finishing school, 'Le Mesnil', until the Spring of 1964. She also speaks Greek, English and of course Danish.

Queen Anne-Marie first met King Constantine of Greece as a young girl in 1959, when he visited Copenhagen on a journey to Sweden and Norway, as Crown Prince, with his parents, King Paul I and Queen Frederica.

She met him again in Denmark in 1961. He had declared to his parents that he intended to marry her.

On 14 May, 1962, Crown Prince Constantine's elder sister, Princess Sophia, married the Spanish Prince Juan Carlos in a double ceremony in Athens at the Roman Catholic Cathedral and the Orthodox Cathedral.

More than 100 royal guests came to Athens, and Princess Anne-Marie was a bridesmaid. Queen Frederica of Greece recorded that, at the reception, her son Crown Prince Constantine 'would dance only with Anne-Marie'.

In 1963, centenary celebrations of the Greek Royal Family began with a State Visit from Princess Anne-Marie's parents, King Frederick and Queen Ingrid of Denmark.

In March 1964, King Paul I died after a short illness, and Constantine succeeded him to the Greek throne.

King Constantine came to the throne with much goodwill, which was expressed in abundance when, on 18 September 1964 (six months after his accession) he married his beautiful Danish Princess in what was described at the time, as 'the most radiant of Athenian royal weddings'. Even an old republican, the 76 year old Prime Minister, George Papandreou, was seen to be enjoying himself thoroughly with the bride and bridegroom.

Queen Anne-Marie devoted much of her time as Queen of Greece to 'Her Majesty's Fund'. This was a charitable foundation started by her mother-in-law, Queen Frederica. It helped people in rural areas of Greece and supported crafts such as embroidery and weaving. She also worked closely with the Red Cross, and various charities.

On 21 April, 1967, political problems in Athens intensified with the Colonel's coup. A month later, Queen Anne-Marie gave birth to Crown Prince Pavlos at the family's country estate, Tatoi.

In December, after his attempt to restore democracy failed, King Constantine and his family left Greece from Kavalla for Rome. With the King, the Queen and the two children were King Constantine's mother, Queen Frederica and his younger sister Princess Irene. They landed at a military airport in Italy because they were running out of fuel.

Queen Anne-Marie and her family stayed first at the Greek Embassy in Rome for 2 months and then took a house at Olgiata on the outskirts of the city.

Later in 1968, they moved to 13, Via di Porta Latina - where they lived until 1973. On 1 October 1969, Queen Anne-Marie gave birth to Prince Nikolaos in the Villa Claudia Clinic near her home in Rome.

In 1974, Queen Anne-Marie moved with King Constantine to England, after a brief stay with her mother in Denmark. King Constantine had been officially deposed by the military Government on 1 June 1973 and a Republic declared by colonel Papadopoulos.

The family's first home was in Chobham in Surrey. Then they moved to a house in Hampstead in North London, where they have lived ever since. Queen Anne-Marie calls it her 'Home away from home'.

Queen Anne-Marie's family grew larger with the birth of Princess Theodora at St. Mary's Hospital, Paddington, in London on 9 June 1983, and Prince Philippos on 26 April 1986.

Queen Anne-Marie helped to start this remarkable bilingual educational initiative in 1980. She is now Honorary Chairman of the school, and devotes a lot of her time to it.

Her first visit to Greece since she left with her family in 1967, was for a few hours, for the funeral of King Constantine's mother, Queen Frederica, in 1981.

Queen Frederica died suddenly in Madrid. Her wish had been to be buried beside her husband, King Paul, at the family estate at Tatoi. The family was given permission to attend - but could not spend a night in their country. They landed at a little airfield near Tatoi, and were welcomed by large crowds. It was, for Queen Anne-Marie and her family, a moving and sad occasion.

She visited Greece again with King Constantine and her family on a private visit by sea in 1993. They went, 'Not knowing what to expect. Wherever we went, people came out to greet us. It was extraordinary and very moving'. It was the first visit for her younger children.

In 2013, The Greek government allowed the ex-monarch to come back to Greece. Constantine returned to reside in Greece. He and his wife Anne-Marie purchased a villa in Porto Cheli, Peloponnese, residing there until they relocated to Athens in the spring of 2022

Wherever they were in the world, Queen Anne-Marie was a constant source of support and stability not just for her exiled husband but also their five children. She made sure that the family spoke Greek at home with all her children learning to be fluent.

She was the one also the family retained close links with all the royal families of Europe - and particularly with the British, Spanish and Danish Royal Families.

Queen Anne-Marie's father, King Frederik IX of Denmark was an accomplished musician and she has inherited his love of classical music - Beethoven, Bach, Tchaikowsky, Wagner. She has always been fascinated by historical biographies.

She had been, above all, the greatest support to her husband over many years of change. They had been happily married for 58 years until the King Constantine II died on 10th January 2023. She remains the last Queen of Greece.

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Do you remember the military junta that ruled Greece from 1967 to 1974?  I didn’t remember much about it either, except for a vague recollection that there had been a military coup just before elections were scheduled to be held in May of that year.  The elections were predicted to be won by Georgios Papandreou’s Center Union, a leftist party that had won elections in 1963 and 1964, the second by a large majority.  The right wing in Greece was rattled by the probable election of Papandreou in1967.  They were even more alarmed that his son, Andreas, who was even further to the left than his father, would have a role in a new government, so a group of generals and colonels pulled off a coup just before the elections to keep Papandreou from winning.

They ran tanks into downtown Athens, creating mass confusion and fear, and dispatched military units around the country to arrest Center Union politicians, intellectuals supporting Papandreou, the acting Prime Minister, Panagiotis Kanellopoulos, and ordinary citizens who were suspected of leftist sympathies.  The coup suspended most of the Greek Constitution, making possible arbitrary arrests and prosecutions without warrants or formal charges.  Georgios Papandreou was arrested at his home in a nighttime raid.  His son Andreas was chased from his bedroom by soldiers armed with machine guns and rifles with fixed bayonets.  He was caught on the roof of his house and surrendered when one of the soldiers held a gun to the head of his 14-year-old son, George Papandreou (who would later serve as prime minister from 2009 to 2011).

There was a military coup in Cyprus in 1974, a failed military coup in Greece in 1975, a failed military coup in Spain in 1981, and martial law was imposed in Poland to put down the Solidarity movement, also in 1981.

I remember sitting here comfortably in the United States, watching all of this happen overseas from the house I had just bought on North Haven Island out in the Hamptons.  In this country, a new conservative government led by Ronald Reagan had just been elected, and although Democrats were disappointed, there were no protests in the streets.  President Carter and his wife Rosalyn met the Reagans under the White House portico and welcomed them into the White House on Jan. 20, 1981, and as outgoing presidents had done before them, attended Reagan’s inauguration that day at the Capitol.

Later in the 1980’s I met an extremely wealthy woman from one of the leading countries in Europe.  Her family owned a huge company that manufactured things you have probably used every day in your life.  She had enough money to buy herself an island and get away from it all, if she became unhappy with the politics and behavior of her own country, which had been conquered by Hitler in World War II.  Some of her own countrymen had been collaborators with the Nazi occupiers. Having watched coups in Europe and occasional political unrest in her own country, she did not trust that all would continue to be well in Europe, so where did she turn, and what did she do?  She traveled to the United States each time she was pregnant and had her babies here, so that they would always have American citizenship as well as citizenship in their own country.  She wanted her children to have what we have.

We didn’t have the danger of military coups and rule by junta.  Our democracy was healthy.  Our government was stable, with our three branches – the Executive, the Congress, and the Judiciary – going to work every day and doing their jobs, reliably if not always agreeably. Our two major political parties differed over issues, politicians occasionally got nasty with each other rhetorically, but we hadn’t had a real upheaval in this country since Richard Nixon was forced out by threat of impeachment over crimes he committed in office.  Our elections were a model for the world.  U.S. observers were asked by other countries to monitor their elections and help make them “free and fair,” as it was often said.

Our economy was the best in the world.  Money came from all over the globe to invest in our stock market.  Foreign auto manufacturers imitated U.S. companies and built cars to compete on an equal basis for sales in this country.  The United Nations sat on the East River in Manhattan where attempts to settle international disputes without going to war were made every day.  Foreign nations maintained embassies in Washington D.C. and U.N. missions in New York City.  Our universities, major and minor both, received thousands of applications for admission from foreign students who wanted to come here to be educated so they could go home and be able to compete in the international marketplace of money and politics and ideas.  Many foreign graduates chose to stay here and enrich our universities, cities, businesses and our politics.

This was American exceptionalism – in the words of Ronald Reagan in his farewell address from the Oval Office to the American people, we were a “shining city on a hill,” a beacon of stability and creativity and freedom to the rest of the world.

Who would say that of the United States of America today?  One of our two major political parties has not accepted the results of the last election and has ceased behaving like it is part of a democracy. It is making plans for a coup if the next election doesn’t go their way. Even if they win, their plans resemble a coup.  Remember the description of Greece in 1967?  If Donald Trump is elected in 2024, it won’t look like a win, it will look the installation of a dictator.  He has said he will invoke the Insurrection Act on “day one” and will use active duty soldiers to put down demonstrations in the streets.  He will use soldiers to enforce the law in any way he wants.  He has said he will “go after” President Biden and his entire family.  He will use the Department of Justice not to enforce the law but to bludgeon his opponents.  He has said he will demand an oath of loyalty to him from anyone who goes to work in the federal government.  He has promised to arrest and jail his political opponents. Using the Insurrection Act to suspend the Posse Comitatus Act, he will use the military to carry out arrests and detentions.

We could see tanks on street corners in Washington D.C. as the Greeks saw them in Athens in 1967, and that is if Trump wins.  The Heritage Foundation has come up with a document with plans for a Trump administration that reads like a coup-in-place.  His henchman Stephen Miller has said a Trump administration will round up tens of millions of immigrants and put them in what amount to concentration camps pending deportation under rules that suspend the normal process involved if a person is to be expelled from the United States.  Spokesmen for Trump have even promised to separate children from their mothers at the border again, and presumably as part of their roundup of immigrants. 

We won’t be a nation of laws.  We will be a nation with armed soldiers in the streets and razor-wire camps waiting to imprison anyone who opposes Donald Trump.

That is what our new American exceptionalism will look like.  The beacon on our shining city will be a red light:  Stop.  Stop using the word “gay.”  Stop the right to control your own healthcare if you are a woman.  Stop the study of American history that talks about slavery and Reconstruction and Jim Crow.  Stop the free marketplace of ideas.  Stop voting rights.  Stop free and fair elections.  

The Donald Trump plan to Make America Great Again will end our democracy and replace it with a fascist state.

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Lady Gabriella Windsor has taken her first steps into public life in the shoes of her cousin Prince William. She will stand at the funeral of the former King of Greece.

Accompanied by Princess Royal, Lady Gabriella, 41, daughter of Prince Michael of Kent, was asked to represent the future king at the Metropolitan Cathedral in Athens.

It comes after King Charles hinted that Prince Andrew, recently embroiled in a legal battle, and Harry, whose book Spare shook the royal family, would be sidelined indefinitely as working royals.

The King recently extended his list of counsellors of state who can deputize for the monarch if he is overseas on an official trip or ill.

Lady Gabriella married financier Thomas Kingston in 2019. The intimate ceremony in St. George’s Chapel at Windsor Castle was attended by several senior members of the royal family, including Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Harry.

Her godfather Constantine II, a second cousin to King Charles III, died aged 82 at a private hospital in Athens on 10 January.

The former and last king of Greece, whose first cousin was Prince Philip, was close to Charles, earning him the title of godparent to William.

His close tie to the British royal family was later affirmed, as the Prince of Wales agreed to be named godfather to Constantine’s first grandson, Constantine Alexios.

Guests at Constantine’s funeral were royals from Denmark, Norway, Sweden, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Serbia and Monaco.

Notable attendees included Queen Margrethe of Denmark, King Felipe and Queen Letizia of Spain. Prince Philippos of Greece and Denmark and Pavlos, Crown Prince of Greece, both attended their father’s funeral.

Monday’s service, officiated by the country’s archbishop, Ieronymos, was private, reflecting Constantine’s status as a former king.

When he acceded to the throne as Constantine II at 23 in 1964, the youthful monarch, who had already achieved glory as an Olympic gold medalist in sailing, was hugely popular.

By the following year, he had squandered much of that support with his active involvement in the machinations that brought down the popularly elected Center Union government of prime minister George Papandreou.

The episode, still widely known in Greece as the “apostasy,” or defection from the ruling party of several lawmakers, destabilized the constitutional order and led in 1967 to a military coup. Constantine eventually clashed with the military rulers and was forced into exile.

In his final years, while accepting that Greece was now a republic, he continued to style himself as King of Greece and his children as princes and princesses. This was even though Greece no longer recognized titles of nobility.

He lived in Hampstead Garden Suburb, London.

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As dynasties go there are few to match the line of Papandreous, who have been at the heart of Greek politics since before the first world war.

Now the latest in this long line, George Papandreou is making one the most audacious come-back bids in recent European politics.

While the mainstream left parties of the historic European left like the French Socialists or Britain's Labour party are down on the floor there is a spring in the steps of other centre-left parties in Europe.

They rule, usually in coalition, in Nordic Europe, in Spain and Portugal, and have claimed the chancellorship in Germany even if forming a coalition between 'red' social democrats, 'orange' liberals and 'green' greens is proving tricky.

Key ministries in Italy are held by the left and even Switzerland's most dynamic cabinet minister ('Federal Counsellor' in Swiss-speak) is Alain Berset, a 49-year old French-speaking socialist.

Greece was the first country in the EU to see its traditional 20th century left party - PASOK – being massively rejected by voters. Political scientists talked of the 'Pasokification' of European social democracy in the 21st century. Even the once-mighty German SPD could only muster 25 per cent of votes in the federal elections in September.

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On November 6, 2011, Greece’s embattled prime minister, George Papandreou, and its main opposition leader, Antonis Samaras, agreed to form an interim government to ensure the country’s new European debt deal.

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Δύο μερόνυχτα περιμένει τον Αλέξη στο Καστελόριζο ο ΓΑΠ - Ανάστατοι οι κάτοικοι στο νησί

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Giorgos (George) A. Papandreou was the Greek Prime Minister from 2009 to 2011 and is the former president of PA.SO.K and the current one of KINIMA.

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“The worries among the British peaked in March 1944, when a “government of the mountains” was created that organized elections. Conversely, this approach awakened the enthusiasm of the Greek armed forces in Egypt, who immediately demanded that the Resistance be included in the exile government. Churchill replied with pitiless repression. He had “rebellious” elements deported to camps in Africa, and set up a praetorian guard prepared to return to Greece with the King and the British troops upon Liberation.

Unable to eliminate the EAM by force within Greece itself, the British resorted to political maneuvers to which its leaders in the mountains — little experienced in this domain — struggled to respond. Caught between their unity strategy and their consciousness of the danger of a coup coming from the Right and the British, they fell into a trap at the carefully pre-arranged conference held in Lebanon in August 1944.

After a great deal of hesitation, they agreed to participate – represented only as a small minority — in a national unity government led by Churchill’s man George Papandreou (grandfather of the Socialist prime minister of the same name). The following month, the EAM leaders went as far as to recognize the authority of a British military governor, Ronald Scobie, who would arrive in Greece upon liberation.”

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Political Landscape Brief

Overview of Countries Political History and Current Populist Movements

   As of this July Greece’s prime minister is a center-right populist by the name of Kyriakos Mitsotakis. Greece’s political system was not always a parliamentary republic. The birth of Greece came with the Greek War of Independence from the Ottoman Empire in 1829. This victory saw Prince Otto of Bavaria as the first king of independent Greece as a monarchy. After about 90 years, in 1924 Greeks voted to abolish the monarchy system and become a republic, but the monarchy was restored in 1935. A few years later marked the beginning of World War 2 which was a turbulent time for Greece. From 1941 to 1944 Greece was under the rule of Nazi Germany. That was until a British and Greek rebellion forced the Nazis out, ultimately leading to a new constitution declaring Greece a Kingdom ruled by parliamentary democracy and the integration of NATO.

  After a back and forth from a parliamentary republic to a monarchy, then back again, the year 1975 marked Greece and a true parliamentary republic with some executive powers vested in a president. 1981 marked an extremely important year for Greece’s political future as Greece joins the EU and Andreas Papandreou’s of the Socialist Party (Pasok) wins the elections for prime minister. He would stay in power until he resigned in 1996 due to health issues and shortly died after. Even though one of the most well-liked politicians in Greece died his Pasok party did not, staying in power until March 2004 when the Conservative New Democracy party led by Costas Karamanlis won the general election.

  The years 2004 to 2009 brought over a shadow of mass speculation and protest throughout the country. The beginning of what will turn out to become a long economic dark period of Greece happened on December 2004 when the European Commission issued a formal warning to Greece after finding they falsified the budget deficit in the run-up to joining the eurozone. From this time until 2009 the Conservative New Democracy party led Costas Karamanlis was in power which was a center-right government. Once the son of the loved socialist party (Pasok) leader George Papandreou came into power as prime minister it seemed like the country took a turn for the worst. One of the world’s largest debt crisis swept the nation leading to Lucas Papademos, a former head of Bank of Greece, becoming the interim prime minister of Greece. They finally reached a new bailout plan a package of tough austerity measure agreed with the EU for a 130bn euro bailout.

   In 2014, Greece starts to experience a radical left-populist, Anti-austerity movement known as the Syriza coalition, winning 26.6% of the vote. Lead by Alexis Tsipras his left-wing populist party fought to bring Greece back to economic stability with the ECB ending emergency funding and a third bailout for 86bn euros. Fast forward to 2019, in July a Center-Right New Democracy party came into power in a landslide election placing Kyriakos Mitsotakis as the new prime minister of Greece.

 Main Populist Leaders, Movements, and Parties

 In the early 21st century Greece was on the brink one of the biggest financial crisis the world had ever seen. The people wanted answers and a man named Alexis Tsipras was about to give it to them. “In Greece, the economic devastation convinced a plethora of radical left groups to come together in the new left-wing populist Coalition of the Radical Left (Syriza)” (Mudde and Kaltwasser, 2017, P.37).  As the years went one Syriza gained rapidly gained seats in the Greek parliament going from just 6 seats in 2004 to becoming the second largest political party in June 2012 with 71 seats.

When the election in 2015 finally came Syriza finally came into power thus making Alexis Tsipras the new prime minister of Greece. This radical leftist populist party fought for the common people, in this case, the upper-middle, middle, and lower middle class of Greece against the “corrupt” old regime of the center-right New Democracy. Tsipras pinned the economic crisis on the old regime and gave the people a new bright outlook on the future. Before Syriza was in power the unemployment was at 25% and youth unemployment was at 50%.  Syriza proposed economic reforms totaling up to 4bn in public program investment.

Syriza’s Alexis Tsipras (AP Photo/Giannis Papanikos)

https://www.thenation.com/article/syriza-rising/

    Syriza stayed in power from 2015 to 2019 when the right-center New democracy won the election in a landslide victory, but none the less populism remains very prevalent in Greece today.

Challenges to rights-based democracy

  In the past couple of years, Greece has been dealing with several issues on the humanitarian front, none has been bigger than the topic of asylum seekers coming to from other countries. A huge controversy facing the nation is the fact that Greece is failing to protect the rights of these asylum seekers. Reports of severe overcrowding, unsanitary, unhygienic conditions, and lack of sufficient specialized care, including medical care, trauma consoling, and psychological support.

           An issue like this point directly at human rights-based issues. Greece’s EU backed the policy of confining asylum seekers who arrived by sea to the Aegean islands trapped thousands in these conditions. Stories like these are growing each day as the government in Greece in a center-right New Democracy attempting to stop immigration as a whole.

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