Easter is a time celebrated throughout the world by religious and non-religious people. This year, Easter Sunday falls on the 21 April. Easter, also known as Resurrection Sunday is a holiday celebrating the resurrection of Jesus. Nowadays, it has become much more commercialised with the Easter bunny which has folkloric origins as the symbol of…
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Europe Year in Review
With the ink now drying on an agreement between the UK and the EU’s 27 remaining states, the end is finally in sight for a series of negotiations that have dominated the public sphere in Europe over the past year. However, 2018 has been an incredibly significant year for the continent beyond Brexit, with many…
Science
Greece’s green island
UEA has partnered up with the University of Applied Sciences in Piraeus, Greece to create a new green energy supply on the island of Tilos. Tilos is one of the smallest Greek islands with a population of only 200 during the winter months; the number jumps to 1,500 during summer with the tourist influx. The…
Travel
Working in Greece: the ideal holiday
It’s the type of summer you see on your friend’s-friend’s Facebook page, having stalked them one lonely and fairly bored night fueled by a little bit of wine and lot of exhaustion. The kind of Instagram worthy photos that feel so far from your own reality. It was sun and sea and wonderful company and…
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Greece: how have we got here and what’s next?
For the previous weeks and months, the European news networks have seemingly been dominated by one subject: Greece. Every time that we tune into the news channels a previous deadline has been missed or a new one has been set, the camera bulbs are flashing as Cameron and co. arrive in Brussels with very serious…
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Syriza: the left strikes back
As expected, a non-centre party -– indeed a party that is for all intents and purposes a socialist one – won the recent election in Greece, defeating the incumbent New Democracy Party (equivalent to the Conservatives in the UK). Although Syriza itself is an alliance of varying leftist groups, and even a right-wing group forms…
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Ex-UEA economics lecturer takes on role of Greece finance minister
He still describes himself on Twitter solely as an Economics professor, and continues to tweet unfiltered opinions on the European debt crisis just as he has for the past few years. But Yanis Varoufakis, who taught Economics at UEA in the late 1980s, now has a new job: in the Syriza election victory of 2015,…
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The consequences of hardship
It is well known that economic difficulty breeds support for extremism. The effects of the First World War birthed fascism in Italy and communism in Russia. The effects of the Great Depression of the 1930s saw the rise of a large number of right-wing dictatorships – most infamously, of course, Nazi Germany, but also those…
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Union declares solidarity with Greek anti-fascist movement
The Union of UEA Students (UUEAS) has made the decision to show solidarity with the anti-fascist movement in Greece.
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