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Modern Greek in the European Union: Language, Economy and Culture

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 January 2016

Marianna Spanaki
Marianna Spanaki*
Affiliation:
Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies, University of Birmingham
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For those teaching and researching in Modern Greek Studies outside Greece, discussion of the eighties and nineties is characterised by reference to changes in Greek political life, as well as in the Greek educational system and policy making directly connected with Greece’s entry into the European Union. Greece became a member of the EU as recently as 1981. PASOK, viewed membership as temporary but these claims were dropped after 1985. In the same period changes introduced into the linguistic system of the Greek language led to discussions of educational and cultural interest.

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Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies , Volume 22 , 1998 , pp. 184 - 195
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Copyright © The Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies, University of Birmingham 1998

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