I loved my first trip to the Balkans for this story on national elections in Bosnia and Herzegovina. I must say, though, that I have never encountered as complicated and byzantine a political system as the one in this country of about four million people. Needless to say, this was a very hard story for [...]
Thursday, Sep. 09, 2010 Greece’s Painful Road to Economic Recovery By Joanna Kakissis / Athens It’s hard to be an optimist in Greece these days, but Prime Minister George Papandreou is trying. In a major speech on Saturday in the northern city of Thessaloniki, he told Greeks that painful economic reforms would “unleash the country’s [...]
Not the easiest story to report, since the shipping world is notoriously closed here, but it was fun nonetheless. My favorite part of the reporting was on Oinousses, the collection of tiny Aegean outlets where many Greek shipowners have roots and homes. It’s an introverted but beautiful place, and I even got to go swimming [...]
The New Guerrilla Group Threatening Greece Sunday, August 8, 2010 It’s the height of tourist season in Greece and the country needs all the visitors it can get. Struggling under massive debt and squeezed by sweeping spending cuts, Greeks are relying on the tourist trade to help give its economy a much-needed bump. So the [...]
