#kondylis

[buendischerwaldgang]

Just as the philosopher [Kant] believed, it is exactly the 'mixing' and 'merging' of peoples which puts peace in danger. But even if the democratic peoples remained separate like good neighbours, as Kant preferred, again they would not be lacking war-mongering arguments in the event they are needed: Nobody will deny the principle that 'democracies do not wage war against each other' - only that he will add that the opponent is not a 'genuine' democrat.

Panagiotis Kondylis

[barefootprince]

The French and the English therefore grasp, with such self-understanding, the problem of European unification not least as a question of hegemony and as a question of the "integration" of Germany, because they are old imperialistic peoples with considerably longer world-political traditions and correspondingly richer experiences as well as a finer diplomatic instinctive feel than the Germans. As for the Germans, on the other hand, it is possible that the ungainliness in respect of power politics of the past will now be superseded by a moralistic ungainliness which will likewise necessarily lead to dead ends. Qualities, which could protect from that, do not exactly belong to the merits of the German national character. The Germans indeed possess, as has been proved, the virtues of the plebeian (industriousness, thrift, ethical earnestness, action in accordance with orders or instructions and a plan); however in general they lack the virtues of the aristocrat: ironic and self-ironic sovereignty (i.e. the irony and self-irony of the sovereign), composure in the event of the failure of orders or instructions, the superior way of dealing with all sorts of norms.

Panagiotis Kondylis The German "special way" and German prospects (perspectives) 

[Translated by C.F. from the German »Der deutsche »Sonderweg« und die deutschen Perspektiven« in Kondylis, P. Das Politische im 20. Jahrhundert. Von den Utopien zur Globalisierung, Heidelberg: Manutius, 2001, pp. 161-180. (First published in: Zitelman, Weißmann, Großheim (Hg.): Westbindung, Chancen und Risiken für Deutschland, Frankfurt a. M. und Berlin, 1993.

[elladastinkardiamou]

Greece's new leftwing government has asked the heads of the state privatization agency to resign after halting state asset sales agreed under the international bailout program, the agency's chief executive Paschalis Bouchoris said on Friday.

He said both he and Emmanuel Kondylis, chairman of the Hellenic Republic Asset Development Fund (HRADF), had been told to leave by Deputy Finance Minister Nadia Valavani, the minister responsible for overseeing state revenues.

"We were asked to resign immediately," Bouchoris told Reuters. "She explained to us that the privatization program will be ended and so there was no reason for the agency to continue in its current form," he said.

[elladastinkardiamou]

Greece has appointed a management professor to head its privatisations agency, the fifth leadership change since the agency was launched in 2010 to sell off state assets as required by the country's international bailout.

Emmanuel Kondylis, a business administration professor, will be the new chairman of the privatisations agency HRADF, which has fallen behind on privatisation targets that form part of Greece's 240 billion euro international bailout.

Kondylis, who has held top managerial posts at several Greek companies, will replace Constantinos Maniatopoulos who took over in October, the finance ministry said on Monday. It did not give a reason for the replacement of Maniatopoulos.

Greece also nominated Pashalis Bouhoris, a former banker, to replace HRADF's current chief executive Ioannis Emiris.