OPINION

11.03.2022 / 21:00

Abusing the justice system

The fresh postponement in the trial for Eleni Topaloudi, the 21-year-university student that was gang-raped and murdered on the island of Rhodes in 2018, exposes a major institutional shortcoming.

10.03.2022 / 21:54

Punish the speculators

Uncertainty caused by the war in Ukraine plays in the hands of those who want to induce market panic at home and internationally.

10.03.2022 / 21:12

Reliable allies

The stance of countries and governments, as is the case with people, is weighted and properly evaluated in difficult times.

10.03.2022 / 18:18

A new, riskier Cold War

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has created tremendous uncertainty for tens of millions of people, but there is one thing we can be sure of: Russia and the West are now at war.

09.03.2022 / 21:53

A war of endurance

It is very difficult to say how the war in Ukraine will end and how long it will last. It is purely a question of endurance, of who will last longer.

09.03.2022 / 21:51

Sanctions and side-effects

The method of a bloodless defense which has correctly been chosen by Europe in the war in Ukraine, using its economic power, cannot turn European households into collateral damage. 

09.03.2022 / 11:04 RAF CASERT

With Ukraine war, Europe’s geopolitical map is moving again

Even though Russia has lost influence and friends since the collapse of the Soviet empire in 1989, the nuclear superpower still holds sway over several of its neighbors in Europe and keeps others in an uneasy neutrality.

08.03.2022 / 21:10

Zakharova’s grievance

War may be the continuation of diplomacy by other means, but it is also the undoing of diplomacy. This is why diplomacy becomes extremely difficult at times of conflict.

05.03.2022 / 23:00

Only path available

By virtue of its geographical location and history, Greece has always maintained open channels of communication with the West as well as the East.

05.03.2022 / 15:55 HENRI J. BARKEY

A tangled web for Turkey in Russia’s war with Ukraine

As Russia’s war in Ukraine enters its second week, Turkey finds itself in an unenviable position, entangled geographically, economically, politically, and militarily with the war’s protagonists.

05.03.2022 / 00:23

Costa Carras, ecumenical Greek

Costa Carras embodied so many virtues, combined such knowledge with great passion, took on so many problems that it was as if he was inspired by a benevolent God to be constantly striving.

04.03.2022 / 22:00

Broken taboos

The European Union taboo against member-states joining forces to issue bonds jointly was overcome in response to the economic challenges of the coronavirus pandemic. Now, the war in Ukraine has broken the taboo against a joint foreign and defense policy for the bloc.

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