ATHANASIOS KATSIKIDIS

Remembrances of a Greek soldier, 50 years on

With the scars still visible on his body 50 years after Turkey invaded Cyprus, Angelos Vougioukas, a member of the Panhellenic Association of Cyprus Fighters of 1974, looks back on the crucial first hours of the Turkish occupation of Cyprus, and the 99 days he spent as a prisoner of the Turkish forces.

France’s ‘democratic parties have to act like adults,’ says respected historian Patrick Weil

With the day after in France marked by uncertainty in party headquarters, Kathimerini contacted the distinguished French historian and visiting professor at Yale Law School, Patrick Weil.

12.07.2024 / 15:00

End of cash ‘is a near reality in many countries’

Why is the digital transformation of the economy necessary and when will we see the end of cash?

10.07.2024 / 06:08

Use of UAVs will ‘almost certainly’ increase, says strategic studies professor

“The use of unmanned devices in the air, at sea and on land is almost certainly going to increase,” Andrew Novo, professor of strategic studies at the National Defense University, Washington, DC tells Kathimerini in an interview.

09.07.2024 / 21:54

Trump return would threaten US democracy

Kathimerini met in Athens with California Lieutenant Governor Eleni Kounalakis to ask her about the next day in the Democratic Party.

02.07.2024 / 07:48

‘Macron consistently misjudges the views of the French public,’ says Berkeley expert

France is in danger of entering a permanent conflict, in case President Emmanuel Macron is forced to “cohabit” with Jordan Bardella after the elections. This is the assessment of political scientist Jonah Levy, vice chair of the Department of Political Science at the University of Berkeley.

26.06.2024 / 22:17

Lequesne: ‘Macron is putting democracy at risk’

“Macron does not know what the answer is about the people’s reaction, but he is taking the risk as he considers politics as gambling,” argues Christian Lequesne, professor of political science at Sciences Po in Paris.

26.05.2024 / 16:47

Olmert: ‘Gaza is Palestinian, and it has to be governed by the Palestinians’

Two years ago, the former prime minister of Israel, Ehud Olmert, in an interview with Kathimerini, underlined the excellent relations between the Israeli and Greek people.

19.05.2024 / 18:55

Alinejad: ‘Iranian women are wounded but unbowed to their oppressors’

“My dream is to witness an Iran liberated from the grip of the Islamic regime,” the Iranian journalist and activist Masih Alinejad tells Kathimerini in an interview.

13.05.2024 / 04:04

Guy Parmelin: Greece offers opportunities for Swiss businesses

The dynamic Greek business environment was praised in an interview with Kathimerini by the federal councilor and head of the Swiss Department of Economic Affairs, Education and Research, Guy Parmelin, during his visit to Athens (May 10-11).

07.05.2024 / 17:10

‘Britain and Greece have a co-ownership of Byron’

“Britain and Greece have a co-ownership of Byron; in Britain as a foremost poet and in Greece as someone associated with Greek liberation,” says Lord Lytton, a fourth-generation descendant of Lord Byron, in a special edition of Kathimerini.

06.05.2024 / 19:18

Countless life forms in the universe

“Teachers who make physics boring are criminals.” With this quote, the famous physicist and former MIT professor Walter Lewin summarizes the meaning of his lectures.

05.05.2024 / 17:07

How Putin fuses Ukraine and the Middle East

He is the author who opined that “geography is taking revenge” and that “you have to think about war, that’s the only way to be prepared.”

03.05.2024 / 21:25

Athens has upgraded its geostrategic position in energy

“The global environment was crucial to China’s emergence,” University of Virginia professor emeritus of foreign affairs Brantly Womack tells Kathimerini

27.04.2024 / 18:25

‘Dictators cannot be appeased or reeducated. They can only be fought’

“Belarus is a crucial element for Putin but also his weakest link,” argues the exiled politician and leader of the Belarusian opposition Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya in a Kathimerini interview.