Inoculating billions of people against Covid-19 in the shortest possible time was always going to be a massive, unprecedented operation in terms of scale and complexity.
The opposition is right when it says that government restrictions aimed at protecting public health from the spread of coronavirus cannot be implemented by force. Even if that was the government’s intention, it would be impossible to make it happen.
Most Americans and much of the rest of the world have heaved a sigh of relief with the departure of Donald Trump after a presidency that did serious harm to the United States’ international image and credibility, perhaps even irreparably.
Greece moves on. It matures and searches for its way. In a global tsunami of anti-systemic politics, it made a four-year commitment against the tide in 2019.
In his recent interview with Kathimerini, former prime minister Antonis Samaras put forward a number of arguments concerning the exploratory contacts between Greece and Turkey and shed light on an important aspect of the issue.
Monday was marked by the start of exploratory talks between Greece and Turkey and the finalization of the agreement with France for the purchase of 18 Rafales.
We don’t know whether this particular item of fake news first appeared on a television news broadcast or was initially hatched by some fringe far-right website.
2020 was a difficult year for Greek national security and the country in general, due to both Turkish actions and the Covid-19 pandemic, the latter an unprecedented crisis that profoundly affected not only the entire state mechanism and the Greek economy and society, but also the whole planet.
After a long time, Greece and Turkey will sit down and talk. We should not expect a lot out of this meeting, but it would certainly be good if it did not come up against some serious roadblock right away.
Since the Cold War’s end, almost every American president has entered office promising to focus on domestic issues, only to have the realities of the world intrude.
Political romanticism, intense external pressures or electoral purposes are the only explanations as to why Greece, instead of reversing pressures and taking full advantage of the available strategic window, prefers to concede the advantage to a cornered Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
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