OPINION

21.06.2022 / 21:30 PASCHOS MANDRAVELIS

A ‘linguistically dead’ Alliance?

No Greek takes any pleasure in listening to Jens Stoltenberg. It’s not his accent they object to, but his mollycoddling of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

21.06.2022 / 21:15 NIKOS KONSTANDARAS

Paternalism and the ‘bad guys’

The Turkish president’s extremely aggressive rhetoric towards Greece may be a sign of the times, but it is also an element of Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s personality and policy.

21.06.2022 / 21:00 EDITORIAL

Lessons from France

The results of the French elections can be interpreted as a warning sign for the situation in Greece. Most importantly, the low voter turnout tells us that polarization does not rally citizens.

21.06.2022 / 10:18 ENDY ZEMENIDES

The immorality of neutrality

At the end of his presidency, Barack Obama eulogized Elie Wiesel as “one of the great moral voices of our time, and in many ways, the conscience of the world.”

20.06.2022 / 21:30 CONSTANTINOS FILIS

This summer, for the first time in many years, the omens concerning Greek-Turkish relations are particularly gloomy. There are many objective reasons why Turkey causing a heated incident is not the most likely scenario.

20.06.2022 / 18:17 KOSTAS KALLITSIS

Policy dilemmas

The government is expected to announce its strategy to reduce household spending on electricity from July onward. There are two plans on the table.

20.06.2022 / 17:45 PASCHOS MANDRAVELIS

‘As long as they do not provoke…’

At Pride parades, anyone can wear whatever they want. Some wear feathers and others leather suits; some put on leggings and others wear thongs. Good for them, and no one has the right to forbid it.

20.06.2022 / 07:06 PETROS G. MOLYVIATIS

Open letter to the NATO secretary-general

Veteran diplomat and politician Petros Molyviatis has penned an open letter to NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg over the latter’s recent urging of Greece and Turkey to settle their differences.

19.06.2022 / 22:15 ALEXIS PAPACHELAS

Trump II and the end of the West

Let’s fast-forward developments in America a bit and skip to the fact that the Democrats will most likely lose control of the House – perhaps in spectacular fashion too – and Speaker Nancy Pelosi will retire to California.

19.06.2022 / 21:50 EDITORIAL

Clarity on the way ahead

Greece has definitely entered a pre-election period, and it is a good thing that the prime minister and several members of his cabinet are determined to complete the reforms they set out to achieve.

18.06.2022 / 21:17 MARIA KATSOUNAKI

Evia, a collective affair

Blighted by wildfires last year, northern Evia serves well for exercises in populism. Main opposition SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras’ visit to the area on Thursday failed to bring any comfort to the people there, as he settled for bandying about the usual oppositional repertory.

18.06.2022 / 21:00 EDITORIAL

The proper response

The Turkish defense services have a pre-recorded message that they often broadcast to warn Greek helicopters or ships that they are allegedly violating Turkish sovereign territory.

17.06.2022 / 22:16 ELIAS HADJIKOUMIS

Armenia between Turkey and Azerbaijan

The post-Soviet region is known for turbulent internal and external political processes. The hotspots inherited by states after the collapse of the Soviet Union remain to this day, and are hindering stability in this region.

17.06.2022 / 21:55 PASCHOS MANDRAVELIS

Where’s the independence?

Independent authorities exist for one reason only: to be independent. And this is because the interests of ministers, MPs and other officials tend to diverge from those of citizens, and often in an opaque manner.

17.06.2022 / 21:40 ALEXANDROS P. MALLIAS

Turkish aspirations, Greek advantages

Back in February 2022, two days before Russia invaded Ukraine, I had written about the need to safeguard international law and the European equilibrium; more specifically, Article 2 (war or the threat of war) of the United Nations Charter, as well as the Helsinki Final Act that is so fundamental to European security and cooperation and the Charter of Paris for a New Europe.