27.02.2021 / 21:25
EDITORIAL
As the tourism sector is poised for a timid restart this summer, the experience from last year’s mistakes will have to be put to good use.
As the tourism sector is poised for a timid restart this summer, the experience from last year’s mistakes will have to be put to good use.
If we focus on the present, Thurday’s debate in Parliament on the quality of public dialogue was disheartening. However, if we look to the future, we may have cause for some hope.
Thursday’s debate in Parliament showed that no one stands to gain from rolling around in the mud.
No issue should be excluded from the arena of political debate. That said, however, the big issue that is currently being discussed by party leaders in Parliament lends itself to exaggerations.
Opposing hatred, violence and terrorism is not a political or ideological act. It is something that requires an unwavering commitment from all of us. Without asterisks, without footnotes, without ifs and buts, without calculations.
On many issues, a head-on political collision, based on party affiliation, is expected and, at times, can be even useful. On others, such as natural disasters, there could be a greater understanding among the different parties.
Can we all just take a step back? We keep on repeating ourselves at the risk of becoming compulsive, if not peculiar, but the simple fact is that our country will not go far with all this hate in our public discourse.
No one wants to see the police intervene on university grounds. This is not the sort of normality we want.
The pandemic has changed a lot in the world around us. Societies were tested, economies collapsed, alliances were shaken.
We have been through this before, and recently. We have experienced what it means to surrender public life to rumors and allegations.
For Europe, Joe Biden’s presidency brings high hopes for reinvigorating the transatlantic partnership. For the United States, succeeding in this task is a prerequisite for achieving an ambitious broader agenda.
Our times are incredibly interesting, and dangerous. Everything is done to excess. Especially when it comes to the threats and challenges, from Covid-19 to climate change.
The state needs to learn the requisite lessons from the extreme weather that hit Greece this past week.
“The rapist and the rape do not have an ideological hue and belong to no party. We do not care about [the rapist’s] political identity,” Culture Minister Lina Mendoni said.
Anyone who is sincerely interested in revealing the truth and holding the perpetrators accountable in cases of sexual abuse must show real – not rhetorical – confidence in justice.