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Evangelos Venizelos

Greek politician

Evangelos Venizelos (Greek: Ευάγγελος Βενιζέλος, pronounced[eˈvaɲɟelozveniˈzelos]; born 1 January 1957) is a Greek academic and retired politician who served as Deputy Prime Minister of Greece from 2011 to 2015, as well as Minister for Foreign Affairs from 25 June 2013[1] to 27 January 2015 and Minister for Finance of Greece from 17 June 2011 to 21 March 2012.[2] He was a member of the Hellenic Parliament for the Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK) for the first electoral district of Thessaloniki. He is a Professor of Constitutional Law at the Law School of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.[3]

On 18 March 2012, Venizelos was elected unopposed to replace George Papandreou as PASOK president and led the party in the May 2012 general election as well as the June 2012 general election.[4]

Early life and education

Evangelos Venizelos was born in Thessaloniki on 1 January 1957. He is unrelated to his famous namesake, Eleftherios Venizelos.[5][6][7]

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A Personal View of Eleftherios Venizelos from 1902 until 1933 as Recorded in Nikos Kazantzakis’s Selected Letters

We obviously know a great deal about Eleftherios Venizelos (1864–1936), partially owing to the prize-winning study of his early life by Lily Macrakis. But I wonder if many biographies of him record the very personal type of reaction that is revealed in a number of Nikos Kazantzakis’s selected letters. Having recently prepared an edition of these letters (which here are quoted with some omissions and editorial manipulations), I am in a position to demonstrate Kazantzakis’s reactions, which veer back and forth from negative to positive, often resting temporarily in a “middling” position.
The very first mention comes in a letter of December 18, 1902. Kazantzakis, nineteen years old, is in Athens attending law school, and is writing to a high school friend who is still in Crete. His view is entirely negative. “Shame on the blood that adorns those famous crags of ours,” Kazantzakis fulminates. “Venizelos’s megalomania and egotism, the personal passion and humility
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Eleftherios Venizelos

Greek politician; Prime Minister 1910–20 and 1928–33

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Eleftherios Kyriakou Venizelos (Greek: Ελευθέριος Κυριάκου Βενιζέλος, romanized: Eleuthérios Kyriákou Venizélos, pronounced[elefˈθeri.oscirˈʝakuveniˈzelos]; 23 August [O.S. 11 August] 1864[i] – 18 March 1936) was a CretanGreek statesman and prominent leader of the Greek national liberation movement. As leader of the Liberal Party, he held office as prime minister of Greece for over 12 years, spanning eight terms between 1910 and 1933. During his governance, Venizelos modernized Greece by promoting liberal-democratic policies. Moreover, Greece was expanded through military and diplomatic cooperation with the Great Powers, and he profoundly shifted Greece from the eastern to the western domain of influence. Therefore, he has been labeled "The Maker of Modern Greece" and is still widely known as the "Ethnarch".

His first entry into the international scene was with his significant role in the autonomy of the C

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