OPINION

03.10.2021 / 10:13 MARIA KATSOUNAKI

The immunity of sit-ins

Very little has changed in Greek school sit-ins, an annual ritual, save that today they are being staged against the backdrop of the coronavirus pandemic.

02.10.2021 / 21:40 EDITORIAL

Disappointing decision

The main opposition party has acknowledged the strategic importance of the defense agreement with France, as well as the operational needs that it will meet.

02.10.2021 / 16:27 IAN BREMMER

The coming dangers for Brazil’s democracy

“I have three alternatives for my future: being arrested, killed or victory.”

01.10.2021 / 22:37 NIKOS KONSTANDARAS

Democracy’s arc from Athens to Myanmar

What would a citizen of ancient Athens have thought if he were able to see today’s mayor present, via video link, the City of Athens Democracy Award to a young woman from Myanmar for her struggles for the oppressed Rohingya minority, for reconciliation and democracy in Southeast Asia?

01.10.2021 / 21:30 GEORGE N. TZOGOPOULOS

After the Greek-French agreement

The Greek-French military agreement is expected to bring Athens and Paris strategically closer in the Eastern Mediterranean.

01.10.2021 / 21:09 CONSTANZE STELZENMÜLLER

Grounds for hope

Germany’s neighbors and allies must have found this election campaign – and watching the results come in on Sunday – confusing and disorienting.

01.10.2021 / 21:01 EDITORIAL

A message from Britain

The long lines at gas stations and the empty supermarket shelves in Britain convey an indirect message.

01.10.2021 / 09:36 GEORGE PAGOULATOS

Wokeness and neo-puritanism

My first brush with political correctness was surprisingly traumatic. I had to get to know the aggressive version of political correctness before I would appreciate its calm necessity.

30.09.2021 / 22:29 EDITORIAL

Canceling school

Repeatedly turning a school into a setting for violent clashes – even if it’s only one school – is an abominable and dangerous precedent which cancels out the educational process.

30.09.2021 / 19:05 TOM ELLIS

The Greek-French defense deal, and Turkey in the background

The agreement Greece signed with France on Tuesday for the purchase of three navy frigates has significant benefits and much strategic value, prompting the following observations.

29.09.2021 / 21:15 ALEXIS PAPACHELAS

Need for leader-managers in the armed forces

Signing a defense deal with France is a very good move by Greece for defending its national interests.

29.09.2021 / 21:00 EDITORIAL

Simple disproportionality

The functionality of proportional representation in Germany’s electoral system has a fundamental requirement: the German political culture of consensus.

28.09.2021 / 20:51 EDITORIAL

Modern deterrence

The wait might have felt very long, but this time the decisions to boost the Hellenic Navy seem to have been made primarily on the basis of the real needs of our country’s national defense –ithout allowing other, political criteria to prevail.

27.09.2021 / 19:42 TOM ELLIS

The new German government and Greece

Soon Greece will have to work with a new government in Berlin. All indications are that it is likely to include the Greens and the Free Democrats (FDP), the third and fourth party in Sunday’s elections.

27.09.2021 / 15:21 GERARD ROLAND, NIKOLAS NEOS

How the past elucidates the future of the ‘Second Cold War’

Is the US destined to enter a Thucydides Trap with China? Following the signs of economic decoupling between the two superpowers and the cracks in the globalized economy, which paradigm is better fit to own the future?