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Greek President Katerina Sakellaropoulou has been banished – along with the prime minister – from the customary Easter celebrations by the Church of Greece, which has chosen this method of payback for the ratification of the same-sex marriage law.


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11.02.2024 / 23:31

In an interview with Kathimerini, David Evan Harris, who teaches artificial intelligence (AI) ethics for leaders at Berkeley, suggests identifying at-risk jobs and investing in education.


10.02.2024 / 11:30

According to the Greek government, its performance on the rule of law and freedom of the press has been judged at the ballot box. This argument is a little “Trumpish.”


04.02.2024 / 19:23

Every time I go to a nice new wine bar in some Athenian neighborhood on the outskirts of the city center, I am overwhelmed by contradictory feelings.


03.02.2024 / 20:39

Suspicion of humanitarian organizations is not a Greek hang-up; it’s universal. The case of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) is a typical example.


10.01.2024 / 12:32

Everyone agrees that the country needs a strong opposition, even the government and even the government spokesman, Pavlos Marinakis, who said as much after the election of Stefanos Kasselakis to the leadership of SYRIZA. But what has been going on recently?



29.12.2023 / 01:37

“I can now observe my life as it comes to an end. I find it exciting to observe myself,” Wolfgang Schaeuble, Germany’s former finance minister, said in one of the last interviews he gave before his death on Tuesday.


25.10.2023 / 11:00

Robert Lambrou, the candidate of the xenophobic Alternative for Germany (AfD) in the elections for the parliament of the State of Hesse, is full of contradictions.


13.10.2023 / 09:52

This time the “Yes, buts” in the public debate were few, bitter dissonances in the general revulsion that Hamas’ terrorist actions in southern Israel provoked. The relativization of the crimes did not even touch the Greek Left, which is always prone to anti-Semitism, with marginal exceptions: the Communist Party of Greece, which spoke about “Israel’s […]


05.10.2023 / 22:53

Stefanos Kasselakis’ election as the president of leftist SYRIZA opposition has sparked a debate on the definition of the modern Greek family. For the first time, the answers seem to stretch into the infinite. “Can two men and a dog constitute a family?” pondered some as they observed the victory speeches of the new party […]


16.06.2023 / 21:08

New Democracy is clearly concerned that if the ultranationalist Niki party makes it into the next Parliament, it could gnaw away at the conservatives’ majority, and this concern has prompted an effort to repatriate part of the far-right vote and redefine the party’s agenda. Party leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis’ first reaction to the unexpectedly good performance […]


09.06.2023 / 14:00

“We lack a culture of collaboration.” Unfortunately, this phrase is repeated in Greece as an unquestionable truth. And since we ostensibly lack this culture, we find ourselves resorting to holding elections repeatedly until we can establish a majority government.