MARIA KATSOUNAKI

Democracy is the only option

It took 50 years for the Greek state to develop more effective systems to contain tax evasion. This is not said to mock or denigrate the state; quite the opposite.

Nancy, her brother and other relatives

The dilemma for the shopkeepers was clear: Either they would pay to have immunity from inspections or they would be forced to go to court every so often.

06.07.2024 / 20:30

The only response to abuses of power

The dialogue that took place between Lefteris Avgenakis and the airline employee matters, chiefly as a piece of evidence. But even without the audio, the video of the incident contains all the elements that make every form of flaunting power so abhorrent.

29.06.2024 / 21:09

When the beautiful sound of running water is no more

So what if the headlines of expert studies, newspapers and websites shout out, “We are running out of water”? So what if rainfall has decreased by half? The increase in consumption continues to drain our reservoirs.

22.06.2024 / 21:12

We women still have a long way to go

Yes, it is a relief when justice works. When domestic abusers pay a price for their actions, when the system follows the legal procedure without discounts due to personal acquaintances or influence from powerful friends.

15.06.2024 / 20:20

When modernization is ‘out of order’

A pair of Australian tourists were astonished to hear that their cab ride from the port of Piraeus to the central Athens neighborhood of Pangrati was going to cost them a whopping 350 euros.

01.06.2024 / 21:30

A dead end packed with unemployed graduates

On the one hand, there’s a gulf between tertiary education and the job market. Of the 50,000 students who graduate from Greek universities each year, just 10,000 have the necessary skills to find related work immediately, according to a recent study.

25.05.2024 / 21:50

What if rote learning isn’t the problem?

There’s a notion that triggers every reactionary reflex in Greeks, and that’s rote learning, the predominant system still used in the country’s public schools as a means of conveying knowledge, and for years blamed for all the ills of the Greek education system.

18.05.2024 / 21:46

‘Likes’ do not translate into votes

You can’t avoid vertigo if you put the latest opinion polls and the social media influence of Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and the leader of the main opposition, Stefanos Kasselakis, side by side.

11.05.2024 / 21:16

A Peanut and Farlie campaign

The most recent survey by Dianeosis on “What Greeks believe” includes the question: What do you think Greece will look like in 10 years’ time?

27.04.2024 / 20:30

A dangerous flirtation

There is certainly nothing measly about 244,000 votes. This was, more or less, the number of ballots it took to elect the far-right Spartiates as the fifth biggest party in Parliament in June 2023.

20.04.2024 / 21:33

Tourism with rationed water and jerricans

“The tourism sector has to adapt to the situation we are experiencing, which is absolutely abnormal,” a member of the Catalan government told the Financial Times in an article published on April 18.

13.04.2024 / 20:30

For an Oscar or a Raspberry?

A storm in a teacup or a serious shift in the Greek cinema industry’s institutional landscape? Draft laws, as a rule, tend to attract the interest only of those who are directly affected, a few specific circles.

06.04.2024 / 21:50

The mixer of ruthless demagoguery

“We have said that we want gun ownership for the Greek man, training for the Greek woman, for everyone,” the leader of the nationalist Greek Solution party, Kyriakos Velopoulos, said in an interview with state-run broadcaster ERT.

30.03.2024 / 20:20

Which world would you like to live in?

The three-day parliamentary debate on a motion of no confidence submitted by opposition parties over developments in the Tempe train crash inquiry ended on Thursday. We were a little puzzled, we mostly confirmed what we knew and very often wondered about the “truth” that was repeatedly professed.