OPINION

03.06.2022 / 21:00

Transparency on debts

The Independent Authority for Public Revenue (AADE) and the EFKA social security fund are warning 25,000 debtors who owe the two state bodies more than 150,000 euros that they will publish their names.

02.06.2022 / 23:36 ALFREDO CAFASSO VITALE

The Parthenon Marbles: An ever poignant question

I was deeply moved during a recent visit to the Acropolis Museum in Athens. The usual marvelous sensory and cultural feelings that always occur while viewing the marbles of this splendid museum were heightened, on the occasion, by seeing the fragment of marble which arrived earlier this year.

02.06.2022 / 21:15

Assessing Erdogan’s behavior

The strategy chosen by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his associates, from his nationalist partner to the foreign and defense ministers and the government spokesman, will not benefit Ankara.

02.06.2022 / 21:00

Work and elections

It is not wrong for government officials to try to revitalize their electoral base in their constituencies now that we are in the last year ahead of elections.

02.06.2022 / 20:50

Sexism given a pass at universities

The Education Ministry has failed in its description of disciplinary violations and measures to make a special distinction for the crimes of sexual harassment, gender-based harassment and violence, or violations of the principles of gender equality.

02.06.2022 / 09:29 PATRIZIA FALCINELLI

Italy and Greece: A common way ahead

Today marks the 76th anniversary of the foundation of the Italian Republic. As we celebrate the choice made on that historic day, we are offered a chance to focus on the values at the core of our country’s action: democracy, equality, solidarity, labor, liberty and peace.

01.06.2022 / 22:26 GEORGE PREVELAKIS

Geopolitical anti-rationalism

The recent outburst of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his derogatory comments against Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis were certainly not a manifestation of rational thinking.

01.06.2022 / 21:32

Sanctuary and guns

Those Americans sure are weird! Troubled people go on shooting sprees and kill children in their classrooms, and they are debating if they should abolish the constitutionally protected right to gun ownership.

01.06.2022 / 21:16

Unreliable and dangerous

Ankara’s hardline rhetoric and mounting provocations, including the systematic violations of Greek airspace by Turkish military jets, appear to forewarn of a repeat of the heated summer of 2020.

01.06.2022 / 21:00

After the face masks

The lifting of the last Covid-related health restriction – the obligatory use of a mask indoors – marks the end of a long period of turmoil. 

01.06.2022 / 09:31 CONSTANTINOS FILIS

Erdogan’s high-stakes crapshoot

Recep Tayyip Erdogan seems to be taking one of the last rolls of the dice in what is a high-stakes game of craps. Turkey has already entered what is effectively a pre-election period and the president is looking for a way to blindside the opposition and trigger snap polls.

31.05.2022 / 22:04

Laying claim to our city

Greek social media were on fire over the past weekend with photographs and comments from an expansive digital art exhibition organized by the Onassis Foundation at downtown Athens’ Pedion tou Areos park.

31.05.2022 / 21:16

How the US sees Greece

Greece is back. For those familiar with how things are assessed in Washington, the change in the image and the general mood toward Greece in Washington’s centers of power is clear.

31.05.2022 / 21:00

The law that went up in smoke

The smoking ban in cafes, restaurants and bars had been touted as an example of how the state can lead to swift progress in social norms when it shows determination and method.

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