The European Union is disintegrating – but leaving is not the answerThe first German word I ever learned was Siemens. It was emblazoned on our sturdy 1950s fridge,our washing machine, the vacuum cleaner – on almost every appliance in my family’s domestic in Athens. The reason for my parents’ peculiar loyalty to the German brand was my uncle Panayiotis, or who was Siemens’ general manager in Greece from the mid-1950s to the late 1970s.
A Germanophile electrical engineer and a fluent speaker of Goethe’s language,Panayiotis had convinced his younger sister – my mother – to choose up the study of German; she even planned to spend a year in Hamburg to choose up a Goethe Institute scholarship in the summer of 1967.
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Source: theguardian.com