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Greece bailout: no one got what they wanted, but the show must go on

Edit The Guardian 20 Aug 2015
Despite growing criticism over the EU’s bitter medicine of austerity, the trade bloc has passed its first big existential test. The EU dream is a tattered one these days. “Europe has failed!” announce pundits from left and right alike ... No ifs, no buts, no maybes ... Instead, it was another Greek prime minister, Charilaos Trikoupis, who uttered those immortal words, way back in 1893 as his economy ground to a halt in a very similar way ... ....

Exhibition preserves memory of ‘great spirit’ Anastasios Agathidis

Edit Kathimerini 07 Aug 2015
Both are part of “Rare Books, Rare People. Anastasios Agathidis,” an exhibition going on display in Prousos, Evrytania, central Greece, from August 10 to 23 ... While Agathidis’s initial donation comprised over 1,000 volumes, only about 300 volumes survive today ... He spent 40 years in London, where he tutored Greek statesman Charilaos Trikoupis and his sister, Sophia, among other members of the city’s Greek diaspora....

War, invasion, coups and finances have prompted Greek stock closures

Edit The Times of India 03 Aug 2015
ATHENS. When Greece shut its stock market in late June it was far from a unique occurrence. Financial issues have plagued Greece, but the history of closures on the 139-year old bourse is also the history of war, invasion, coups and natural disasters ... 16 to Nov ... The market didn't close in 1893 - not even for one day - when then-Prime Minister Charilaos Trikoupis made his famous comment - "Unfortunately, we are bankrupt". ....

Wars of Attrition

Edit Huffington Post 30 Jul 2015
The circumstances we have experienced in these past several years in Greece are not unprecedented. We can find such situations in many other countries as well ... Let's take the Greek example. for Charilaos Trikoupis and Anargiros Simopoulos, former ministers of finance, Greece already found itself bankrupt as of 1882, but borrowings nonetheless continued up until 1893, whereupon the country went bankrupt ... ....

Greek debt standoff a case of deja vu all over again

Edit The Irish Times 26 Jun 2015
For historians, the standoff between Greece and its creditors is a case of deja vu all over again. A Greek default on loan repayments of €1.6 billion due to the IMF on June 30th might trigger a bankruptcy, but it wouldn’t be the first ... The next round began in 1875 with the ascent of Charilaos Trikoupis, who would serve as prime minister seven times in the next two decades ... In 1893, Trikoupis stood up in parliament to announce ... ... ....

Leaders or footnotes

Edit Kathimerini 05 Nov 2014
On the occasion of the launch of a series of books on Greek leaders by Kathimerini, I started thinking, for instance, why we included Ioannis Kapodistrias rather than Petrobey Mavromichalis and Charilaos Trikoupis as opposed to Theodoros Deligiannis ... But he did not leave behind the kind of legacy that Trikoupis did, a politician who tried to ......
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