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Turkey and Hungary are both difficult allies of the United States. Both held up NATO’s enlargement just when Washington needed the greatest possible coalition against Russia and maximum support for Ukraine.


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17.03.2024 / 16:00

“So a Russian ballistic missile nearly killed the Greek prime minister as he was visiting Odesa with Zelensky today. The Greek prime minister. The leader of the NATO and EU member with the largest sympathies for Russia,” Yaroslav Trofimov, chief foreign affairs correspondent of The Wall Street journal and author, commented on X on the day of the attack.


15.03.2024 / 20:45

The European Commission president and the prime ministers of Greece, Italy and Belgium are going to Egypt on Sunday to provide serious economic assistance and a support framework for this difficult time, but they will also try to fortify the Union against the fallout from the region’s troubles.


09.03.2024 / 21:00

Citizens are democracy’s first and last line of defense. Institutions are shaped to anticipate problems and prevent deadlock, to regulate the state’s functions, to protect the weak and check the powerful.


05.03.2024 / 10:00

Donald Trump is the first former president of the United States to face criminal charges – 91 of them, to be precise, in four cases.


03.03.2024 / 19:35

How do we measure time? How do we evaluate our era, our history, if not through our lives, through the distillation of our experiences and judgment? Each sees things from a specific point, through different expectations, disappointments, fears and achievements. “Man is the measure of all things,” declared Protagoras – the truth is relative, depending […]


01.03.2024 / 20:46

A question hovers over the conference on the 50 years since the restoration of democracy, known as the Metapolitefsi, which began Thursday.


27.02.2024 / 11:38

The Supreme Court’s intervention in the Tempe train collision investigation shows that the judiciary, at least, understands that the institutions are under the public’s microscope in this case, and that it is of the greatest importance to restore citizens’ faith in them.


25.02.2024 / 13:47

He came out of nowhere and was elected leader of the official opposition. He promised a vague “Greek dream.” He yoked together his party’s failed policy of all-out confrontation with his novel way of doing things. And now Stefanos Kasselakis is battling loudly against the quicksand of our country’s political culture. Whether he manages to […]


23.02.2024 / 14:25

Alexis Tsipras’ dynamic intervention on Thursday, a few hours before the start of SYRIZA’s congress, raises many questions – some of which most likely began to be answered later in the evening.


22.02.2024 / 21:12

The fact that Alexei Navalny’s death was easily foretold does not make it less heroic nor less sad. It does not reduce the value of his sacrifice, nor the importance of the warning that it sends to the Russians and the rest of the world – Vladimir Putin will act in this way until he is forced to stop.


19.02.2024 / 21:47

We are at a point where we need to evaluate the gains of 50 years of democracy, to assess our strengths and weaknesses in the face of the time’s challenges, to think of where we want to go.


16.02.2024 / 22:35

Establishing equal rights in political marriage is an important step in our politics and social progress.


15.02.2024 / 21:30

Donald Trump is doing Europe a favor with his notorious statement that Russia “can do whatever the hell they want” with any NATO member that Trump may think “owes” protection money to the United States.


13.02.2024 / 08:30

The wars in Ukraine and Gaza most likely mark the end of the system of global government instituted after World War II. However dysfunctional the UN Security Council was from the start, it had not been undermined to the level that it is today.