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Let’s be serious, what this country really needs is not another election, but rather a responsible government and a constructive opposition that can demonstrate to voters their readiness to govern effectively when the next general election comes around.


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23.03.2024 / 21:00

An entire era of Greek politics is coming to an end. How do we know? By who is leaving the scene and who is joining it.


20.03.2024 / 22:13

Who fears and trusts the United States? This crucial question is being asked at this time, not by opponents of the US, but by some of the people who held very important positions in Washington. Congress has frozen the process of approving military aid to Ukraine. This is happening at a time when Russian President […]


13.03.2024 / 20:26

A good friend wrote to me on Tuesday: “Universities have been closed for two months. My children entered two very good departments in Athens and Patra, two departments that require hard work to finish and which have huge dropout rates.


11.03.2024 / 21:08

Escapist tendencies are perfectly understandable in anyone who is involved in public life in Greece, and especially if they are in a post that entails serious responsibilities.


06.03.2024 / 20:30

A central issue in Greek politics for decades has been that politicians view everything as a zero-sum game. In colloquial terms, they believe that the political death of their opponent equates to their own survival.


04.03.2024 / 21:33

Is Greece’s transition to democracy, a historical process known as the “Metapolitefsi,” complete? What are the legacies and hangups left behind, 50 years after the collapse of the military dictatorship?


28.02.2024 / 22:00

Greece lost a very rare person on Monday. Costas Apostolidis was the founder of industrial surge protection manufacturer Raycap, but for those who knew him, he was much more than that.


26.02.2024 / 21:45

Ask almost any European official specializing in security matters what keeps them up at night, and they’ll probably answer “Egypt.” The crisis in the Middle East is most certainly threatening the stability of what is the most important country in the Arab world right now and everyone knows that if Egypt falls, the crisis this would spark would reverberate far beyond Greece or Italy, all the way across Europe.


21.02.2024 / 21:40

There is no substantial political opposition in the country, which leaves people with nowhere to channel their dissatisfaction or anger, and no assurance that there’s an alternative governing option if desired. It is a conundrum that is unhealthy politically for Greek citizens.



19.02.2024 / 20:15

It’s a strange thing: Greece has become a relatively predictable, politically stable country. I wouldn’t say boring, because we still have a long way to go.


14.02.2024 / 21:30

Greece needs responsible representation in Europe. If the conservative government failed to grasp this from the recent developments surrounding the European Parliament resolution on the rule of law and media freedom in Greece, it will inevitably face the issue again.


12.02.2024 / 21:10

In diplomacy, illusions are both a curse and a trap. I was reading the headlines of newspapers and websites about the recent statements of Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan. “[Fidan] revives Turkish provocations” was a headline that came up a lot.


07.02.2024 / 21:46

The US government has chosen a peculiar way to handle the triangular agreement with Greece and Turkey for the sale of F-16 and F-35 fighter jets.