Argiris Altiparmakis

European University Institute, Political Science

[Tomas Pueyo @tomaspueyo]

I was looking at some maps for a future article and saw something interesting about Italy.

The Po River Valley is the richest and highest-density area because it's the most fertile.

But then there's this line of cities. That's so weird. Why?

[ian bremmer @ianbremmer]

Serbian President Vucic finds out he’s moving his country’s Israel embassy to Jerusalem. #RealTimeDiplomacy

[Argiris Altiparmakis @argialti]

@GeneralTheorist Tbqh I doubt he had much to do with the referendum and find much worse than his game theory calculations his beliefs about party and electoral politics

[Tommaso Fattori @TommasoFattori]

Avanti #uniti e in alternativa alle due #destre!

[Argiris Altiparmakis @argialti]

@guillemvidal_ @JeromeRoos Most of them did not get there via a hyper-competitive culture, they mostly got there because they were born in the 50's/60's

[regular gem @Choplogik]

This week Amazon started creating astroturf accounts that search & reply to tweets criticizing Amazon's working conditions, a normal & regular thing companies do.

[Marija Ristić @Marien__R]

Russian billionaire living in Greece gave hundreds of thousands of euros to Macedonian opponents of the country’s proposed name change, @OCCRP reveals.

Recipients include politicians from various parties & soccer hooligans.
https://t.co/4HC23HZymt

[Daniela Chironi @DanielaChironi]

Appena partito a Figline Valdarno il corteo dei 318 lavoratori licenziati dalla #Bekaert. Una delle crisi più grandi in Italia, e nessun rappresentante del governo del cambiamento è presente!

[Argiris Altiparmakis @argialti]

@dsquareddigest @OwenJones84 Yes, the program under which greek debt has ballooned by 80% seems a wild success in terms of them getting their money back

[Argiris Altiparmakis @argialti]

@eborbath @guillemvidal_ The most amazing thing is he was(?) being paid 300,000 to just never be there. I bet I can find easily 3-4 speeches/texts of him speaking about 'hard choices' blablabla

[Argiris Altiparmakis @argialti]

@guillemvidal_ He answers that in his paper, go check it, no idea why you get different results though

[TaygetiMic @TaygetiMic]

cc @atlas_women Interesting read on sexual exploitation in the humanitarian field https://t.co/NGdOX0kAQH

[Magdi Jacobs @magi_jay]

1/ Steven Pinker has a new book out. It is, predictably, getting a lot of praise. So I would like to make a few comments about Pinker’s last book, “The Better Angels of Our Nature,” which was riddled w/ bad analyses, cherry-picked data, and, in many regards, TERRIBLE sourcing.

[Argiris Altiparmakis @argialti]

This is a stellar review of the political economy insights and blunders of Varoufakis https://t.co/O2vZohiNkO

[Boston Review @BostonReview]

The battle by Yanis Varoufakis and his Syriza comrades against the intolerable state of affairs in Greece is, even in defeat, a rare spot of genuine heroism in today’s discouraging political landscape: https://t.co/MI6J2gSgdl

[Argiris Altiparmakis @argialti]

@JWMason1 Especially re: syriza, tsipras, who to trust and how parties function it's one blunder after another

[Argiris Altiparmakis @argialti]

@JWMason1 I think you should also consider reading the book that Varoufakis is incredibly naive

[Reto Bürgisser @RetoBuergisser]

Country profiles of the EU #SocialJustice Index for #Greece, #Italy, #Portugal and #Spain.
Source: https://t.co/Z6Dr23U7oo

[MacroPolis @MacroPolis_gr]

#Greece labour market reforms did exactly what they were supposed to. Too late for complaints, says @YiannisMouzakis https://t.co/jJIZCxbLmV

[Argiris Altiparmakis @argialti]

Η «Φάρμα των Ζώων» της 6ης Σεπτεμβρίου - ThePressProject https://t.co/VcqAhnzM2V

[Argiris Altiparmakis @argialti]

@M_C_Klein Oh no, not labour reform 🙄