OPINION

19.02.2021 / 20:25 DIONYSIS GOUSETIS

Will Kerameus’ education reform make the cut?

Just three in a succession of education ministers since the restoration of democracy managed to carry out reforms that touched the essence of the contradictions prevailing in Greek society.

19.02.2021 / 15:00 TASSOULA EPTAKILI

Like a lemon tree in the frost

He’s scheduled to get his second dose of the coronavirus vaccine on Saturday and is counting down the days like a kid waiting for a school trip.

18.02.2021 / 21:49 ANGELOS STANGOS

Times forbid any more obstacles to progress

The current conditions are not calm enough to allow for luxuries like hesitation, procrastination and other such notions associated with decisions.

18.02.2021 / 20:50 ALEXIS PAPACHELAS

Cyprus’ foreign minister, Ioannis Kasoulides, visited Washington at the start of the month, where, he says he received assurances of support for Nicosia’s proposal for the way forward from Secretary of State Antony Blinken and even more so from Under Secretary Victoria Nuland.

18.02.2021 / 20:11 EDITORIAL

Infrastructure investments

The many problems resulting from Tuesday’s snowstorm were the result of a series of factors that are not unknown – anything but.

17.02.2021 / 22:09 ALEXIS PAPACHELAS

Risks and opportunities

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is gradually realizing that he no longer has a friend in the White House.

17.02.2021 / 21:38 EDITORIAL

Political snowball fight

The most crucial parameter when dealing with extreme weather is to make sure that no lives are put in danger.

17.02.2021 / 21:36 PASCHOS MANDRAVELIS

Can the state sector be reformed?

Can anyone recall any major administrative reform launched by the administration of Antonis Samaras (as mentioned by Interior Minister Makis Voridis in his article in Sunday’s Kathimerini)?

16.02.2021 / 21:10 TOM ELLIS

Turkey faced with Greece’s EU membership and diaspora

Last week, the Turkish minister of defense once again denounced what he perceived as Greek attempts to reframe Greco-Turkish disputes as wider disputes between Turkey and third parties, powerful countries or regional entities.

16.02.2021 / 21:02 EDITORIAL

Defending health

The country’s mass vaccination campaign is of such scale that it could not have succeeded unless every available group or unit of the state’s mechanism had been mobilized.

15.02.2021 / 20:07 TOM ELLIS

Remembering a great artist and an honorable man

Pavlos Samios, who passed away so unexpectedly at the age of 73 earlier this month, was a man full of life. A man who was humble and kind.

15.02.2021 / 12:17 ALEXIS PAPACHELAS

Turkey’s insatiable geopolitics

To understand how an opponent behaves it is crucial to a) get in their shoes and b) imagine how they see you with their own eyes. Well, the way Turkey views Greece has changed a lot in the last 10 years.

15.02.2021 / 09:30 MARCO VICENZINO

Italy’s new government: More about national salvation than unity

As the man who was credited with saving the single currency during Europe’s sovereign debt crisis, Mario Draghi is now being entrusted to form not just a government of national unity but largely one of national salvation as Italy confronts its greatest existential crisis since the end of the Second World War.

14.02.2021 / 21:08 EDITORIAL

Outdated fixations

Why is education still an issue that causes polarization? Why can’t political parties agree that you can’t protect academic freedom when troublemakers exploit the lack of security on university campuses and occupy spaces therein, or worse.

14.02.2021 / 00:52 MARIA KATSOUNAKI

Greek National Theater in the meat grinder

In his recent speech in Parliament on the education reform bill, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said that “nowhere in the world do we see scenes like those at our universities, where … professors beaten and girls raped.”