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Article: Leter: The place of Greece in Europe
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- January 19, 1996
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From Professor Roderick Beaton
Sir: Andrew Gumbel attributes to Andreas Papandreou the
breathtaking achievement, for a prime minister of Greece, of
securing EU funding for a bridge between the European and Asiatic
shores of Turkey ("across the Hellespont"). In sober fact, the
Rio-Antirrio bridge, if it is ever built, will span the mouth of
the Gulf of Corinth, the waterway in which the armies of
Christendom and Islam clashed in the year 1573, causing Miguel de
Cervantes to lose an arm and take up writing as a career.
More seriously, in his eagerness to attribute all the political,
social and economic ills of Greece to the agency of one man, Mr
Gumbel's searing condemnation of the "towering ...