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The Western bubble

The dominant Western narrative today has the West fighting a battle against a dark world that represents authoritarianism and challenges the liberal post-war political world. It is summed up in the phrase “the West and the rest.”

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08.04.2024 / 20:30

Missing the forest for the trees

The fact that Greece remains stuck where it is despite its potential is due, to a significant degree, to an excessive preoccupation with politics – with a small p – and we journalists and commentators are partly to blame for this.

03.04.2024 / 23:00

The trap of the routine

Maybe we don’t understand how much everything around us seems to be losing its momentum and cheapening, and I hope we don’t suddenly realize it by some “accident.”

01.04.2024 / 21:40

Politics with an eye on the phone

The country is very vulnerable to gossip, conspiracy theories, our wild political passions, and our creaking institutions. Politicians are constantly looking at their cell phones to read the latest snarky comment or gossip.

27.03.2024 / 21:42

The thread that was cut at Tempe

Let’s be serious, what this country really needs is not another election, but rather a responsible government and a constructive opposition that can demonstrate to voters their readiness to govern effectively when the next general election comes around.

23.03.2024 / 21:00

The ‘reserved’ seats of power

An entire era of Greek politics is coming to an end. How do we know? By who is leaving the scene and who is joining it.

20.03.2024 / 22:13

Fear or trust?

Who fears and trusts the United States? This crucial question is being asked at this time, not by opponents of the US, but by some of the people who held very important positions in Washington. Congress has frozen the process of approving military aid to Ukraine. This is happening at a time when Russian President […]

13.03.2024 / 20:26

A parent’s anger

A good friend wrote to me on Tuesday: “Universities have been closed for two months. My children entered two very good departments in Athens and Patra, two departments that require hard work to finish and which have huge dropout rates.

11.03.2024 / 21:08

A rare window of opportunity

Escapist tendencies are perfectly understandable in anyone who is involved in public life in Greece, and especially if they are in a post that entails serious responsibilities.

06.03.2024 / 20:30

Understanding and dialogue

A central issue in Greek politics for decades has been that politicians view everything as a zero-sum game. In colloquial terms, they believe that the political death of their opponent equates to their own survival.

04.03.2024 / 21:33

Lessons from the Metapolitefsi

Is Greece’s transition to democracy, a historical process known as the “Metapolitefsi,” complete? What are the legacies and hangups left behind, 50 years after the collapse of the military dictatorship?

28.02.2024 / 22:00

If Greece had more people like Costas Apostolidis

Greece lost a very rare person on Monday. Costas Apostolidis was the founder of industrial surge protection manufacturer Raycap, but for those who knew him, he was much more than that.

26.02.2024 / 21:45

There’s good reason to worry about Egypt

Ask almost any European official specializing in security matters what keeps them up at night, and they’ll probably answer “Egypt.” The crisis in the Middle East is most certainly threatening the stability of what is the most important country in the Arab world right now and everyone knows that if Egypt falls, the crisis this would spark would reverberate far beyond Greece or Italy, all the way across Europe.

21.02.2024 / 21:40

Opposition deficit

There is no substantial political opposition in the country, which leaves people with nowhere to channel their dissatisfaction or anger, and no assurance that there’s an alternative governing option if desired. It is a conundrum that is unhealthy politically for Greek citizens.

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