Nikos Konstandaras
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Nikos Konstandaras became a contributing opinion writer for The International New York Times in the fall of 2013. Mr. Konstandaras is managing editor and a columnist of the Greek daily newspaper Kathimerini. He is also the founding editor of Kathimerini’s English edition, which, since 1998 has been published as a supplement to the International New York Times (formerly the International Herald Tribune) in Greece and Cyprus. He was also the editor of Athens Plus, an English-language weekly published by Kathimerini and the Herald Tribune.
Mr. Konstandaras was born in South Africa in 1961, and is a graduate of the University of the Witwatersrand, where he received bachelor’s and master’s degrees in ancient Greek. He edited, with Johan van Wyk and Pieter Conradie, an anthology of South African poetry, published in 1988. He has also lived in Mozambique.
Mr. Konstandaras worked as a correspondent for The Associated Press in Athens from 1989 to 1997 before joining Kathimerini and has reported from many countries in the region.
He is married and has three children.
ARTICLES BY NIKOS KONSTANDARAS
The Greek Debt Crisis’ Great Divide
Greece is trapped between creditors who don’t trust it and hard-line Syriza members who insist on rolling back earlier measures — even at the cost of exiting the eurozone.
March 17, 2015, Tuesday
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Economic Conditions and Trends
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European Central Bank
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Germany
Greece's Political Chimera
Syriza represents the potential for change — and the danger of rolling back reforms of the past few years.
January 31, 2015, Saturday
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Coalition of the Radical Left (Greece)
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Politics and Government
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Economic Conditions and Trends
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Samaras, Antonis
Is the Cyprus Issue Insoluble?
Despite new dangers, decades of separation seem to have worn away at the desire to fix the problem.
December 2, 2014, Tuesday
Greece's Economic and Political Traps
Our society has lost a great deal and gained little in return.
October 27, 2014, Monday
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Social Conditions and Trends
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Economic Conditions and Trends
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Finances
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Banking and Financial Institutions
Crete Finds Self in Union
Even a fiercely independent and rebellious people can feel the tug of belonging.
September 25, 2014, Thursday
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Greece
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Politics and Government
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Democracy (Theory and Philosophy)
Why Our Monuments Matter
Freud’s revelation on the Acropolis reminds us that we’re nothing without a dialogue with the past.
August 20, 2014, Wednesday
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Monuments and Memorials (Structures)
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Freud, Sigmund
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Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS)
Greece's Watershed Year
In 1974 we set course on the greatest period of stability in our history. But many problems still plague us.
July 28, 2014, Monday
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European Sovereign Debt Crisis (2010- )
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Politics and Government
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Cyprus
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European Union
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North Atlantic Treaty Organization
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Credit and Debt
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New Democracy (Greece)
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Pasok (Panhellenic Socialist Movement)
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Revolutionary Struggle
Turning From Europe’s Past
Amid war’s monuments, let’s think of the Continent’s future.
June 26, 2014, Thursday
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European Union
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Europe
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Economic Conditions and Trends
As Goes Greece, So Goes Europe?
Extremist parties are eroding the center-left and center-right core of national and E.U. politics.
May 29, 2014, Thursday
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European Union
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European Parliament
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Elections
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Politics and Government
From Pericles to Potami
The crisis of the past four years is opening the way for radical change in Greek politics.
April 25, 2014, Friday
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Politics and Government
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Elections
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European Sovereign Debt Crisis (2010- )
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