OPINION

15.12.2020 / 21:30 MICHAËL TANCHUM

Europe also needs to worry about alienating Greece

The European Council’s December 11, 2020 decision to continue to postpone imposing sanctions against Turkey over its actions in the Eastern Mediterranean was a disappointing, although not entirely unexpected, outcome for Greece.

15.12.2020 / 21:02

Time for the rectors

All – or almost all – Greek governments in recent decades have lamented the occupation of university spaces by outside forces, whether they be unionists or simply delinquents.

15.12.2020 / 18:15 GIORGOS KATROUGALOS

Consequences of the strategy vacuum

I have previously criticized the government for what I call its “perpetual strategy vacuum.” In the four months since I last did so, the situation has, unfortunately, deteriorated.

14.12.2020 / 20:50 MANOS TSAKIRIS

‘All for an empty tunic,’ all for an American Dream

Joe Biden’s acceptance speech reminded the world that there still exists a different kind of politics from Trump’s divisive lying rhetoric. In his first address as president-elect, Biden was right in alluding to “a nation that we know we can be – a nation united.”

14.12.2020 / 19:45 NIKOS MYLONOPOULOS

Europe’s digital leap

Since most people agree that the pandemic has acted like a pressure cooker accelerating the digital transformation across the world, one question is this: After the pandemic, will the gap between digital leaders and laggards be smaller, larger, or the same?

14.12.2020 / 14:51 KOSTAS FRAGKOGIANNIS

Greece and Volkswagen partner in the Aegean

Who would imagine that a picturesque whitewashed Greek island against the deep blue of the Aegean Sea would be the site of a cutting-edge electric vehicle project led by the Hellenic Republic in cooperation with the Volkswagen Group?

13.12.2020 / 23:56

The only way forward

Greece – along with the rest of the world – is going through the toughest phase of the worst health crisis in the past century. Where it goes from here depends entirely on one thing: the success of the coronavirus vaccination.

12.12.2020 / 23:29

Getting others to understand us

We Greeks tend to believe that just because we know we’re right about something, everyone else should as well. But it is a big world we’re living in, with dozens of disputes and problems. What happens in the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean is important to us, but not necessarily to anyone else beyond a group of politicians, diplomats and experts.

12.12.2020 / 21:29

No festivities with full ICUs

Widespread hopes that lockdown restrictions could be relaxed a bit more over the Christmas and New Year’s holidays cannot be fulfilled given the situation with the coronavirus pandemic and current epidemiological figures.

11.12.2020 / 21:05

EU-Turkey, a clash of eras

On Thursday, a few hours before the leaders of European Union member-states were to discuss the bloc’s relations with Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan attended a military parade in Baku, celebrating Azerbaijan’s triumph over Armenian forces (with Turkish assistance).

11.12.2020 / 21:02

The wheat and the chaff

There is, unfortunately, nothing really surprising about the fact that all sorts of shaky businesses are seeking to abuse the pandemic by coming forward to claim financial assistance from the government that they are not entitled to.

11.12.2020 / 08:38 NIKOLAS KATSIMPRAS

The story of an innovative navy ‘mafia’

Could anyone imagine that Hellenic Navy officers would follow the written advice of an anonymous top Italian mafioso to execute one of the most critical missions of their careers? Or that in their effort to activate our most advanced nautical weapons, navy officers would manage to come up with solutions to serious technological issues at a cost of less than 3% of the amount demanded by foreign suppliers?

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