Evangelia (Evi) Tsakali

Evangelia (Evi) Tsakali was born in 2001 in Athens, Greece. She has graduated from Sorbonne Law School (Université de Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne) and is completing her studies in Political Science and Public Administration in the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens while pursuing her MA in the College of Europe in Natolin (majoring in EU in the World). She has been an intern both for the MFA of her country and a mission abroad, and she has been writing for the youth-led medium Offline Post for years. Passionate about human rights and with a particular interest in studying and countering the extreme right, she will be writing her Master’s Thesis on the rise and fall of the Golden Dawn in Greece. For BalkaNewsletters, she will serve as the Communications Officer.

In a table full of winners, the only loser was Democracy: European elections in Greece or how not to talk about the Far Right

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Image source: https://hellas-first.org/2024/06/11/ethniko-fronima-kai-akrodexia/  In order to vote by post for the European elections, we Greeks abroad received a booklet with instructions (as it was the first time this system was implemented) which included a chapter on what are European elections (!), and why they are important. Even though I initially laughed it off, given the […]

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Their voices cried the failure of the international community: A visit to Srebrenica

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Arriving at the Srebrenica Memorial Site in the context of our study trip to the Western Balkans, I couldn’t help a flashback to the previous semester, when we visited the Bełżec memorial. The memorial of Bełżec, at the site where a Nazi center of extermination for the Jewish people used to operate along the Lublin-Lviv

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Dying isn’t scary, not living is: Happy Independence Day Greece!

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Ευαγγελισμός (Evangelismos) is the word we use in Greek for the Annunciation of Virgin Mary (observed religiously on March 25th), meaning literally “the announcement of good news”. March 25th is also commemorated as the commencement of the Revolution against the Ottoman Empire which culminated in the establishment of an independent state, even though the Revolution

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Somewhere, over the rainbow? How Greece became the first Orthodox country to legalize same-sex marriage

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“What do you mean you don’t allow gay marriage? And you are supposed to be a European country?” This is what a classmate of mine spontaneously exclaimed in a family law class when it was mentioned that Greece had not yet opened the institution of marriage to same-sex couples. Such legal moves took place in

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