Lecture by the Consul-General of Greece Ioannis Mallikourtis and Professor Vrasidas Karalis
In July 1074, a momentous political shift took place in Greece, due to the Cyprus catastrophe, after the Turkish invasion. The Dictatorship collapsed and through certain ingenious political manoeuvres the third Hellenic Republic was announced after the return from Paris of the exiled former prime minister Constantine Karamanlis. Despite many problems, financial, social and political however the young republic gained strength and consolidated itself over the last fifty years, the most peaceful and stable decades in the history of the Greek nation-state. The lecture explores precisely what happened during the last fifty years and why democracy was established after so many upheavals in the land where its was born. It also explores the central personalities that defined its trajectory, their policies and aspirations and finally attempts and interpretation of the factors that made the Greek nation state so unstable and volatile. It also attempts a prediction about its future within the geopolitical realities of Eastern Mediterranean and the rather pessimistic future of the European Union.
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