I Had a Dream....An Evening with Angela... Angela Merkel!

 Last night I had a dream...

I dreamt of Angela... 

Angela Merkel!
Not just an ordinary dream either...

I wasn't somewhere she was, and saw her in passing... 

or in this shop window in Athens when she visited last year...

 nor did I bump into her on the empty streets 

during  her visit through Athens last year

 

I wasn't at the Greece v Germany Football Game

nor was I  shivering in the cold in a street in Berlin waiting for the promised land...

 Not at all!

We were both guests at a social function somewhere I couldn't determine, probably in Athens and I was chatting with her for at least an hour!

What did I say to her? 

Everything that any Greek would like to say to the person whose austerity policies have affected if not destroyed every single Greek household, bringing them to the brink of bankruptcy... to the brink of despair.

 What could I say to the person whose intransigence and adherence to this infamous austerity is especially responsible for the new poverty that has struck Europe.

 

I told it like it was, described the situation on the streets, 

the dire circumstances of 90% of Greece's population and told her that she is entirely on the wrong track! That it would be so much more productive to bring in incentives for employment and development, to free up the money supply to encourage this development and allow Greece to grow. 

That it would be better for Greece but also for Germany!

 

That she needs to give Greece a chance...

That it wasn't just about loans and interest rates. 

That there are people behind the numbers, people who are suffering, suffocating.

 

That two of the main reasons for the rise of the extreme right, a criminal Nazi based party called Golden Dawn, is the newly-imposed poverty and newly acquired misery for the average person, along with the lack of hope in the future for a younger generation that is highly qualified but cannot find a job to suit those qualifications in Greece. 

 

What was particularly pleasing was that she agreed with me and promised she would make sure things changed now that she was re-elected.

I woke up feeling elated and that I had done something for Greece, my homeland, and the rest of Europe!

What a wonderful feeling and no mean achievement! 

Alas for Greece however, it was just a dream... 
some would say a nightmare!

For a moment there though, I felt on top of the world! 

Prophetic? Wishful thinking? Who knows...

To all the dream analysts out there ...

I would love to see how you interpret this! 

At Global Greek World, We ♥ Greece...and it shows!

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My Life in Ruins? Captions Please for the Economist Cover Photo of German Chancellor Angela Merkel

My Life in Ruins...

Chancellor Angela Merkel stands on a Greek column, surrounded by EU countries' national symbols in various states of neglect or disrepair...many items with something Hellenic about them,BTW, ahead of the German Elections.

Please provide a caption for this photo which is the cover for The Economist Magazine this week for the UK & EU, on our Global Greek World Facebook Page. 

My Life in Ruins is it...

BTW, Why do they differentiate between the UK and the EU? Isn't it part of the EU?

At Global Greek World, We ♥ Greece...and it shows! 

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Photo of the Day! Bravo Greece!

Greek football officials jump for joy in Gdansk...while others just sit...

 A photo is worth a thousand words 

and this photo says it all! 

Greece's Samaras scores the equaliser 

and the camera records the reactions! 

Just look at the range of emotion on those faces: from Michel Platini and Angela Merkel's Hope-it-goes-away look, to Lech Walesa's broad smirk and the Greeks' jubilation! 

Bravo Team Greece! We're so proud of you all!

You played with your hearts, with dignity and pride, and you fought to the end!

Thank you!

And because we, as Greeks who invented the concept, believe in the principles of 

'Ευ αγωνίζεσθαι' or Fair Play, 

congratulations to Germany, who played so well and won! 

We didn't see it, but in the interests of the same Fair Play, we hope that Chancellor Merkel at least had the courtesy to applaud the two goals Greece scored... anything less would have been small minded! 

Greece vs Germany: Καλή Επιτυχία Ελλάδα Μας! Good luck Greece!

Εθνική Ελλάδος -David, Greece's National team takes on Germany-Goliath, in today's Euro 2012 match and if it wins has every chance of pulling off a repeat of her historic Euro 2004!!! 

In every single corner of our Global Greek World, everyone is getting ready for the Game of Games, THE match of this years Euro 2012 championship! 

Even our daughter, little Miss 12, loves football and she is an avid collector of the Panini cards...

Hellas Pages in Little Miss 12's Panini Book

Only Tziolis and Charisteas missing here...

We all know that Germany hasn't been the best friend to Greece during the financial crisis, quite the opposite in many ways in fact.

In the last few days, the German press has done it's best to ridicule the Greek team, but that isn't what sport is all about. Thanks to our favourite German Otto Rekhaghel, the architect of the 2004 victory and Greece's coach, Fernando Santos, Ethniki Ellados can take on anyone, even with Chancellor Merkel is in the stand!

Greece's players have said they have nothing to lose and everything to gain and will put their heart and soul into this game. 


That's all we can ask for! 

Diego Maradona wrote the following in the Times of India

“Fernando Santos knows he has the game of his life in his hands, as he faces an uphill battle of gargantuan magnitude. But if 300 Greeks were able to hold off 10,000 Persians at Thermopylae, than 11 Greeks certainly will have a chance against 11 Germans,”

  «Ο Φερνάντο Σάντος ξέρει ότι το παιχνίδι της ζωής του είναι στο χέρι του, καθώς αντιμετωπίζει έναν γιγάντιο αντίπαλο. Αλλά, αν 300 Έλληνες ήταν ικανοί να απωθήσουν 10,000 Πέρσες στις Θερμοπύλες, τότε 11 Έλληνες έχουν ευκαιρία απέναντι σε 11 Γερμανούς».

Thank you Diego!

As for us, we'll be right behind our team and look forward to seeing moments like these again!  

Καλή Επιτυχία Ελλάδα Μας!  

 Good luck Greece! 


But just to be safe, we took all the necessary precautions to help Greece along, sending Greece's special envoy Konstantine Mitsotakis to wish Germany well...

despite this if we don't win, don't worry... 

you can always watch this match, where Greece DID win!

Thank you Monty Python!