OPINION

02.07.2022 / 21:40 MARIA KATSOUNAKI

Kouros, Saidu and Giannis

Is it because we always look for the good version of the story, the “fairy tale” with the happy end? Is it because positive examples, at least in the way the media sees them, are few?

02.07.2022 / 21:00 EDITORIAL

Our obligation to our seas

Greece’s seas are full of plastic and garbage. It is as if we don’t realize of how much value they are to the country, as if we don’t understand that we have an obligation to protect them.

01.07.2022 / 22:43 STAVROS TZIMAS

Our neighbor Bulgaria is languishing in an endless political crisis, from which the way out is not quite visible. A few days ago, the pro-Western coalition government of Kiril Petkov collapsed, taking with it his vision of reform.

01.07.2022 / 22:27 TENIA CHRISTOPOULOS

‘…and the home of the brave’

It has been 100 years since my father and his family left the beautiful Bosporus in Constantinople. No one likes to suddenly leave their home, but they had been included in the “exchange of populations,” as it was quaintly called, between Turkey and Greece.

01.07.2022 / 21:33 NEWSROOM

The right balance

Covid-19 remains an insidious and dangerous disease. We all want to leave it behind for the reason that it has ruined our lives over the two-plus years of the pandemic.

01.07.2022 / 21:17 NIKOS KONSTANDARAS

Waiting for Putin

At the NATO Summit in Madrid, when Turkey agreed to the future accession of Sweden and Finland, Recep Tayyip Erdogan did not look like a man who had triumphed after keeping the military alliance hostage for several weeks.

30.06.2022 / 22:48 PASCHOS MANDRAVELIS

The unbearable lightness of 2015

Every single reasonable person in this country spent this period seven years ago in a state of shock. The reason was not only the existential crisis of the referendum called by the SYRIZA-Independent Greeks government that would effectively determine whether the country would remain in the eurozone.

30.06.2022 / 21:15 TOM ELLIS

Government and opposition on relations with Turkey

The deteriorating climate in Greek-Turkish relations is obviously a matter not restricted to the present-day governments of the two countries.

30.06.2022 / 21:00 EDITORIAL

Incentives are the key

Establishing the institution of family doctor may form the foundation for restructuring and modernizing the National Health System. If the pandemic has shown us anything, it is the flaws and shortcomings of this system.

30.06.2022 / 15:50 ELIAS MAGLINIS

Second Covid booster? Yeah… maybe

In contrast to the speed with which we took up the previous doses of the vaccine against SARS-CoV-2, Greeks are hesitating over the fourth dose.

29.06.2022 / 21:15 ALEXIS PAPACHELAS

The end of prim and proper

In the last 47 years, there have been moments in the history of Greek-Turkish relations during which a decent and honest arrangement could have been made.

29.06.2022 / 21:00 EDITORIAL

Fire protection

Something is changing in the management of forest firefighting. The government ensured the presence of a special force of European forest rangers throughout the summer.

29.06.2022 / 19:15 EVANGELOS APOSTOLAKIS

No complacency toward Turkey

Over the past few weeks, the Turkish leadership has been putting forward a series of unconscionable, historically flawed and extremely dangerous theories, which are aimed at undermining Greece’s position in the Aegean and the Eastern Mediterranean.

28.06.2022 / 21:16 TASSOULA EPTAKILI

Death ‘according to protocol’

They are our closest relative, sharing 98.6% of our DNA. They use similar gestures to us (they hug and kiss) and have similar behavior (discipline and social structure) and emotions (sadness, joy and pain).

28.06.2022 / 21:00 EDITORIAL

Essential island staff

The shortage of affordable, decent – or even any – housing for people working in the tourism sector on Greece’s islands is a well-known problem.