It’s always hard to see the big picture during a crisis that’s still unfolding, just as it’s difficult to remember some of history’s most fundamental lessons.
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine commenced just a month ago, yet it is already evident that fleeing Ukrainians, 90% of whom are females and children, will not be returning home to a safe Ukraine anytime soon, if at all.
“Greece has a strong claim to being the worst country in the European Union to be a child,” UNICEF’s Greek Office chief Luciano Calestini said in a recent interview with Kathimerini’s Iliana Magra.
The resistance shown by academic authorities toward the education minister’s request that they take responsibility for choosing which departments in their universities should be merged is not surprising.
The fact that tickets for traffic violations will finally be generated and distributed digitally and that fines will also be paid online marks the end of yet another embarrassing remnant of the old-school political mentality.
It seems normal to us now that a “Concert for Peace” should provide ground for a political clash, seeing as we never miss an opportunity to accuse each other of callousness, opportunism and hypocrisy.
When the Greek War of Independence broke out 201 years ago in March 1821, we Greeks were on the “wrong side of history,” shaped as it was by the rulers of Europe, but we were “on the side of justice and liberty.”
On March 14, the Greek prime minister announced that he had tested positive for Covid-19. On March 22, having recovered and tested negative, he visited Athens’ central vegetable market at Renti.
Now that we’re in the third chapter of the pandemic, we no longer pay much attention to numbers, ratios and charts, no longer follow how many people have died in the world and how many in our country.
The importance of the prime minister’s effort to break with the tradition of using the timing of elections for tactical reasons should not be overlooked.
We shouldn’t start complaining again. Yes, Turkey is playing ball at the moment. After it opened up a number of fronts, developments meant it had to close them with quick and rather spectacular moves.
Upgrading the country’s power grid requires time and money. However, the petty corruption which fosters electricity theft from utilities should have already been eliminated.
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