OPINION

13.02.2021 / 22:29

Inflammatory talk has consequences

Turkey’s leadership has once again entered a phase of unrestrained inflammatory rhetoric. Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis presented his position: Athens should not be involved in a war of words.

12.02.2021 / 21:04

The mandate

Thursday’s debate in the Greek Parliament was highly revealing. Observers had the opportunity to witness two radically different perspectives on the mission of tertiary education – and, by extension, two different ideas about the country’s future direction.

11.02.2021 / 21:15

Erdogan threatens Mitsotakis

Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s habit of lashing out at foreign leaders, including Greek ones of course, is hard to understand sometimes; the Turkish president obviously feels that he is invincible and has the right to insult and threaten whomever he chooses.

11.02.2021 / 20:11

The message

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has recognized that the constant media presence of some of his ministers is causing confusion.

10.02.2021 / 22:23 ANDREAS YANNOPOULOS

Greece’s new century

As Greece prepares to celebrate the bicentennial of the declaration of its War of Independence next month, the country is also poised to enter a new era in its economic development as a modern nation-state.

10.02.2021 / 21:43 STATHIS KALYVAS

Protecting universities

I recently received from a non-Greek academic friend an email that has been circulating widely in international academic circles calling for solidarity with Greek universities because they have supposedly been imperiled by the Greek government and, by extension, democracy in the country is now in danger. 

10.02.2021 / 21:04

Reserves of patience

The cost of a hard lockdown is heavy. It is not just the market which – before it had time to breathe a little – is being shut down again.

09.02.2021 / 21:16

Erdogan untamed

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan needs to decide what kind of relationship he wants with the West. For any strategy he pursues to be successful, he needs to start acting a lot more realistically.

09.02.2021 / 21:02

An own goal and defense

The prime minister won the trust of the people because he has shown seriousness and professionalism in the way he governs. People immediately recognized the difference from the previous administration, especially in terms of crisis management.

08.02.2021 / 21:28

Fear and freedom

Experts tell us that the strongest emotion we feel as humans is fear, which we are unable to process individually. This leads to the belief that only an all-powerful institution, namely the state, can ensure the survival of a society and its citizens when they are faced with mortal peril, like the current coronavirus crisis.

07.02.2021 / 21:31

From Bismarck to Merkel

“Turks and Germans loved each other for a long time,” Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said during a visit to Berlin in 2018. He was citing the historic words of Germany’s first chancellor, Otto von Bismarck, which still seem to determine Berlin’s policy on Ankara. 

07.02.2021 / 21:23

Falling short of expectations

If the vaccination rollout had not been undertaken by the European Union, member-states would have gone at each other tooth and nail in a vaccine war.

06.02.2021 / 23:13

Museums and the essence

“The General Assembly of the Association of Greek Archaeologists has unanimously rejected the conversion of state-run museums into legal entities governed by public law (NPDD), for ideological, legal, political and practical reasons.”

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