OPINION

05.06.2021 / 21:12

The stench of public vulgarity

It started with mean-spirited comments about the body weight of Elena Paparizou, the winner of the 2005 Eurovision Song Contest for Greece, during her performance at the festival’s latest edition in Rotterdam.

04.06.2021 / 22:58

Union capriciousness

The images of indignant citizens trying to force “activists” off the gangplank of a passenger ferry whose departure from the port of Piraeus they were preventing are painful.

04.06.2021 / 22:01 CHRISTOS S. ZEREFOS AND CHRISTOS MYLONOPOULOS

Forest fires and negligence

As we have all ascertained, climate destabilization has led to an increase in the frequency and intensity of extreme weather conditions worldwide.

04.06.2021 / 21:51

A harmful, unjust hindrance

When it is common knowledge that Greece has a demographic problem which constitutes an immediate threat, when we all know that in the past few years the labor market has been upended by the long crisis and the pandemic, one can only wonder why the Interior Ministry would choose to hinder people who are already here and want to be part of the country’s future from applying for residence permits or citizenship.

02.06.2021 / 23:51

Infuriating speculation

No one is pleased with the escalation of violence in the world of organized crime. This does not mean, however, that the problem lends itself to speculation of the most infuriating, rabble-rousing and populist kind. 

02.06.2021 / 22:50 M.I. TSINISIZELIS

Citizenship exams and political institutions

There has been a lot of talk about the exams to acquire Greek citizenship by individuals who legally emigrated to Greece and who have lived continuously in the country over a long period, usually more than two decades.

02.06.2021 / 21:20

What is at stake

The government has put forward an ambitious plan with sweeping changes to education, health, the labor market and social security. These are sectors that affect the life of every citizen.

02.06.2021 / 21:09

The market after ICU

The state will continue to provide financial support to businesses that have been hit by the pandemic into the first weeks of their reopening. 

01.06.2021 / 20:58

Following the money

The Hellenic Police appears to have done the methodical preparation and work required to identify major organized crime networks.

31.05.2021 / 21:11 CENGIZ AKTAR

The comfortable illusion of Turkey’s EU candidacy

Today, Turkish rulers take every opportunity to disregard the European Union’s fundamentals in order to claim Turkey’s singularity, if not superiority. The EU paradigm has become a liability in the face of an increasingly authoritarian if not totalitarian regime in which the arbitrary of the one-man rule has become the rule. The EU membership perspective […]

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