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‘Russian invasion is historical experience’

The Slovak President visited Athens on Tuesday as the political crisis gripping her country peaked, after the four-party coalition government of Premier Eduard Heger lost its parliamentary majority, following the resignation of ministers from the center-right Freedom and Solidarity (SaS).

China sees Ukraine and thinks of Taiwan

For two years, in 2016-18, Susan Thornton was the acting US assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs. Today she a senior fellow at Yale University Law School’s Paul Tsai China Center.

18.04.2022 / 09:25

Kosovo, the Albanians, the Serbs and Crimea

Albin Kurti is a prime minister with an unusual history. The former student activist spent two and a half years in a Serbian prison in 1999-2001, he was jailed again by the authorities of Kosovo in 2007, while in 2018 he was convicted of perpetrating or instigating at least five tear-gas attacks against the Kosovo Parliament, in order to stop the law that would have granted limited autonomy to the Kosovo Serbs.

11.02.2022 / 19:24

‘We have to preserve peace’

In an interview with Kathimerini amid the crisis in Bosnia and recurring tensions in Kosovo, Serbia’s Foreign Minister Nikola Selakovic insists that if there is one lesson to be learned from the turbulent times of yesteryear, it is that peace must be preserved at all costs.

09.05.2021 / 14:55

Greece’s dolphins and whales in peril

The cetaceans (whales, dolphins, porpoises) swimming in European seas face much bigger threats than in all other areas of the planet.

20.12.2019 / 18:21

A Green New Deal ideal for a country like Greece

Robert Pollin, distinguished professor of economics at UMass-Amherst, talks about the plan and its impact on different economic sectors.

22.10.2019 / 17:03

Scrambling to make an impact on climate change

‘It’s worth fighting every tenth of a degree of global warming,’ says respected German atmospheric physicist Hans Joachim Schellnhuber.

01.05.2017 / 18:50

Head of NGO fighting for better access to medicine

Knowledge Ecology International’s James Love spoke on ways of beating monopolies and prohibitively high prices during recent visit to Athens.

29.09.2016 / 13:57

EU-Turkey refugee pact looks increasingly like a Jenga tower, ESI chief says

A deal between the European Union and Turkey to stem the flow of migrants looks increasingly like a Jenga tower, says the man who came up with the plan, while placing most of the blame for its failure on European leaders

01.06.2016 / 14:46

Jagland: ‘We have put a heavy burden on Greece’

The main message that Thorbjorn Jagland, the secretary-general of the Council of Europe, carried with him when he visited Athens recently was one of solidarity. The Norwegian believes that Greece needs more economic, as well as political, support from its European partners.

01.11.2015 / 15:37

Refugee crisis was not unexpected, top UN official says

Director-General of the United Nations office in Geneva, Denmark’s Michael Moller, expresses optimism that the agency’s sustainable development goals (SDGs) will help toward ending extreme poverty but he has no illusions about the refugee crisis, stressing that such phenomena will continue.