OPINION

08.06.2022 / 21:17 ALEXIS PAPACHELAS

Division has not disappeared from our DNA

Looking back, you sometimes wonder how this country survived and grew. Reading editions of Kathimerini from 1922, you are shocked by the passion and hatred for the rival political party and its leader.

08.06.2022 / 21:00 EDITORIAL

Long-standing problems

One of the worst and oldest structural problems of the Greek state has to do with overlapping responsibilities in the civil service.

08.06.2022 / 12:04 NEWSROOM

Hybrid deterrence in an age of uncertainty

The evidence that Greek-Turkish relations have entered a new phase of hostility are unfortunately proliferating.

08.06.2022 / 02:37 CONSTANTINE CAPSASKIS

June brings with it politics and fires

As Greece inches closer to summer, its inhabitants are once again confronted by the third, oft-forgotten, certainty along with death and taxes, seasonal wildfires.

07.06.2022 / 21:17 TOM ELLIS

Greece is already becoming an energy hub

Greek and foreign officials and analysts have often stressed Greece’s potential role as an important energy hub in speeches, discussions and interventions.

07.06.2022 / 21:00 EDITORIAL

A clear stance

The current escalation in tensions in Greek-Turkish relations is particularly alarming because this is the first time that all communications between the two sides, at every level, have ceased.

06.06.2022 / 18:20 SERGII SHUTENKO

Ukraine: 100 days of brave resistance

“Greetings to the peoples of the indomitable country!” These are the words that every Ukrainian has been hearing daily since the beginning of the full-scale invasion of the Russian Federation into the territory of our sovereign state.

06.06.2022 / 15:12 PETROS LIAKOURAS

What’s behind the statements and letters

The Greek-Turkish relationship is back in troubled waters as a mutual promise for calm founders on Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s usual tactic of unproductive confrontation.

06.06.2022 / 11:36 NIKOS VATOPOULOS

Is there a vision for Omonia?

Many wonder whether all the new investments in downtown Athens’ Omonia Square – those that have been completed and those yet to come – will have a beneficial impact on the area as a whole.

06.06.2022 / 08:40 CENGIS AKTAR

On Erdogan, the West and Greek-Turkish relations

Let’s start with the domestic facts and figures to dispel the widespread wishful thinking betting on the victory of the so-called “opposition front” at the next elections.

05.06.2022 / 23:31 ALEXIS PAPACHELAS

Violence is not cool

Have you noticed a spike in violence everywhere around us? In every form. From how we resolve our differences driving in the street to bullying, and from racist to sports-related and domestic violence, it is a phenomenon that seems to be growing to uncontrollable proportions

05.06.2022 / 23:11 EDITORIAL

Expensive distortions

Even if the war in Ukraine ended today, the European economy would still have to live with inflation for a long time to come.

04.06.2022 / 22:23 STAVROS TZIMAS

The Orthodox leader and ‘the altar boy’

Ecumenical Patriarch Vartholomaios has wrapped up his successful week-long visit to northern Greece that was crowned with a visit to Mount Athos, home to the oldest surviving monastic community in the world, where he marked the 30th anniversary of his election to the Ecumenical Throne.

04.06.2022 / 21:25 PASCHOS MANDRAVELIS

State secrets

Since when did informing Greek citizens become a bargaining chip between the state and private companies?

04.06.2022 / 21:00 EDITORIAL

The law at night

A decision by the Municipality of Alimos, a seaside suburb in southern Athens, to halt the nuisance of noise from the local nightclubs by applying restrictions on loud music after 11 p.m. exposes the central administration, which shows suspicious indifference toward impunity.