OPINION

20.02.2022 / 22:35

We know where we belong

Greece’s foreign policy is defined by some constants that have been respected by all political parties that have ruled for the last 30 years – even when, in the runup to national elections, some parties had challenged them.

19.02.2022 / 14:25 GERARD ROLAND, NIKOLAS NEOS

Russia-Ukraine: Looking back at the roots

The reason behind Russian aggression in the Ukrainian border is crystallized in Vladimir Putin’s recently published article “On the Historical Unity of Russians and Ukrainians.”

19.02.2022 / 12:59

The new ism – polakism

“The problem is not [SYRIZA MP Pavlos] Polakis, but polakism,” Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis told main opposition leader Alexis Tsipras during a parliamentary debate in November 2020 about the number of ICU beds at Athens’ Sotiria Hospital, referring to the outspoken SYRIZA lawmaker and defining “polakism” as a “mixture of sarcasm, arrogance, bravado and lies.”

19.02.2022 / 03:42 YIORGHOS LEVENTIS, ELIAS HADJIKOUMIS

Ukraine crisis: Decoding Kremlin’s perspective

In 2014, brother nations (“bratskie narodi”) Russia and Ukraine, united by common cultures, mentalities, customs, traditions and closely related languages, became enemies. They have remained so for eight years now.

18.02.2022 / 21:15

In our upside-down world

It’s not that we are unaware of the dangers, and yet, very often we abandon ourselves to blessed inertia, or to nonsensical hyperactivity where we think that looking busy absolves us of responsibility for what will follow.

18.02.2022 / 21:00

Political hooliganism

We have become used to public discourse being coarsened. Similarly, we have become used to the vitriol flung by anonymous social media accounts. 

18.02.2022 / 15:15 BRUCE CLARK

Law, morals and marbles

Does the status of the Parthenon Sculptures amount to a simple question of ethics or a complex, but ultimately soluble, question of law?

17.02.2022 / 20:07

United front on diplomacy, defense

The parliamentary debate which preceded the approval of agreements for the purchase of Belharra frigates and Rafale fighter jets from France was not a one-dimensional affair.

17.02.2022 / 15:24

Trophies of violence

This is not a letter of accusation but the heartfelt expressions of a Greek man, born and raised in Athens. 

16.02.2022 / 21:15

Conventional weapons, unconventional threats

The landscape of international relations is radically changing. The sooner we realize that, the better. The foreign policy and defense tools that we used to have at our disposal are no more, although this may not yet be fully clear to us. 

16.02.2022 / 21:00

Demographic decline

The prediction that, in the next two decades, the population of Greece may have decreased by almost a million is, unfortunately, no longer surprising. 

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