Spyros Economides, a senior lecturer in international relations and European politics at the London School of Economics, said Greeks are "not very positive at all" in their views toward Germany.

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In 1960 he worked at an international school in the Netherlands before being appointed as a senior lecturer at the then Trinity College, Carmarthen (which is now the University of Wales Trinity Saint David) where he stayed until he retired.

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