When the Greek crisis started breaking out into the international public arena in 2009 my Twitter friends from around Europe and the world started asking me questions.
Initially, I chose not to take on their requests.
I was tweeting about EU/European/UK, US and world dynamics and trends and I decided to stick to that. But as the crisis went on and much mud started being thrown at Greece and the Greeks (eg "lazy" etc),
I did start to counter-argument some of the things that were being written by journos, analysts, commentators and especially certain German, Dutch and Finn politicians.
Paid a certain cost for that, in that many non-Greek tweet-followers either un-followed me, wrote many caustic tweets against me or my tweets counter-argumenting against the propaganda against Greece/Greeks, etc.
Some even argued that a) I was engaged in a "crusade" against Germany, the Netherlands and Finland.
That was very inaccurate since my critique was aimed at views and policies of the 2010 and 2011 CDU-CSU/FDP and many members of the Dutch and Finn governments, not the countries or their people.
Many fellow tweeps of course were kind and fair enough to point that out.
But one Twitter friend even argued that Angela Merkel was more European than me! Oh well!!
Now that the critique re A. Merkel's policies re Greece and the Euro has widened throughout Europe, the US and even Germany, to some extent, I feel somewhat vindicated.
We are in 2018 now and after 12.5 months with Dropbox Billing and Payments and Businenss Support for US, Canadian, Australian, UK and other English speaking clients, business and consumer, I've decided to launch this Greece Support service.
Contact Greece Support:
Via nickpana2017@gmail.com, cell 0030 6908963364 or
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/nickpanayotopoulos
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nickpanayotopoulos
Nick Panayotopoulos
BS, MIT; MS, Northwestern; MBA, INSEAD
Initially, I chose not to take on their requests.
I was tweeting about EU/European/UK, US and world dynamics and trends and I decided to stick to that. But as the crisis went on and much mud started being thrown at Greece and the Greeks (eg "lazy" etc),
I did start to counter-argument some of the things that were being written by journos, analysts, commentators and especially certain German, Dutch and Finn politicians.
Paid a certain cost for that, in that many non-Greek tweet-followers either un-followed me, wrote many caustic tweets against me or my tweets counter-argumenting against the propaganda against Greece/Greeks, etc.
Some even argued that a) I was engaged in a "crusade" against Germany, the Netherlands and Finland.
That was very inaccurate since my critique was aimed at views and policies of the 2010 and 2011 CDU-CSU/FDP and many members of the Dutch and Finn governments, not the countries or their people.
Many fellow tweeps of course were kind and fair enough to point that out.
But one Twitter friend even argued that Angela Merkel was more European than me! Oh well!!
Now that the critique re A. Merkel's policies re Greece and the Euro has widened throughout Europe, the US and even Germany, to some extent, I feel somewhat vindicated.
We are in 2018 now and after 12.5 months with Dropbox Billing and Payments and Businenss Support for US, Canadian, Australian, UK and other English speaking clients, business and consumer, I've decided to launch this Greece Support service.
Contact Greece Support:
Via nickpana2017@gmail.com, cell 0030 6908963364 or
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/nickpanayotopoulos
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nickpanayotopoulos
Nick Panayotopoulos
BS, MIT; MS, Northwestern; MBA, INSEAD
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