Alexis Tsipras, the leader of the leftist SYRIZA opposition, has promised that university candidates who fail to get in because of the government’s decision to introduce a minimum threshold for entry into tertiary education, will be ensured a seat next year. It is an outrageous pledge.
History has proved that Greece must always be a strong naval power. Geography and geopolitics make it a strategic necessity for the country to have a navy that can, at the same time, defend every island and islet in the Aegean and have a presence in the Eastern, Mediterranean.
Even though for many decades the nature of the post-Cold War polarity was a topic of dispute, nowadays hardly anyone denies that humanity is experiencing a multipolar systemic condition.
The protests by extremist fringe parties and lone fans of the anti-vaccination movement in Athens in recent days are the first pre-election rallies of the age augured by an electoral system that will allow their representatives to be elected to Parliament.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan had two goals when he announced on Tuesday the plan to partially open Varosha, in the occupied city of Famagusta in the north of Cyprus, “with respect for property rights.”
It is obvious that certain islands which are especially popular with tourists have, regardless of the reasons, turned into super-spreaders of the coronavirus.
I was very disappointed when the first bulldozers arrived at Agrafa, the historic mountain area of central Greece, to start the work on a new wind farm.
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