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by Roger Cohen New York TimesJuly 8, 2019 If you’re looking for an optimistic story in Europe, try Greece. Yes, you read that right. Having lost a quarter of its economy in a devastating recession, Greece has turned the corner, its democracy intact, its extremist temptations defeated and its anti-Americanism defunct. The landslide election on […]

EconomistJuly 8, 2019 Greece’s center-right New Democracy party (ND) comfortably won a snap general election on July 7th, capturing 39.9% of the vote to 31.5% for the left-wing Syriza party of Alexis Tsipras, the current prime minister. The result fell short of the sweeping victory for ND predicted by some pollsters, but gives the conservatives