The prospects of green energy have rekindled the flame of interest from German energy firm RWE in Greece’s Public Power Corporation (PPC), first expressed in 2008 with plans for joining forces in the construction of two coal-fired plants.
INTERVIEWS
25.02.2021 / 20:30
YIANNIS SEGLIAS
Yiannis Seglias, chief information officer at National Grid Electricity Transmission and Capital Delivery – the Britain’s equivalent of Greece’s ADMIE – emphasizes the importance of making use of data to promote transparency and policymaking in an interview with Kathimerini.
![Former US assistant secretary of state for energy resources Francis Fannon (r) and Cyprus’ Minister of Energy Yiorgos Lakkotrypis talk to the press during a meeting of the 3+1 Technical Group (Cyprus, Greece, Israel and USA) for offshore oil and gas operations in Nicosia, on February 5, 2020. [Yiannis Kourtoglou/Reuters]](https://www.ekathimerini.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Fannon_Cyprus_reuters-280x368.jpg?603b42c551be2)
22.02.2021 / 19:22
FRANK FANNON
In an interview with Kathimerini, the former official conveys American support for the development of natural gas resources in the area.
16.02.2021 / 09:10
VASSILIS FOURLIS
Vassilis Fourlis, executive board chairman at the Fourlis Group, predicts that following the coronavirus pandemic, there will be a boom in consumer spending in this interview with Kathimerini. However, he believes that the predicted increase in demand will not be spread equally across all sectors. Fourlis stresses that despite the losses faced by the group’s […]
12.02.2021 / 21:46
JOHN KIRIAKOU
Greek-American ex-CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou talks about his ordeal in trying to secure a pardon from the former American president.
12.02.2021 / 20:12
NICHOLAS DANFORTH
An expert on Turkey and US foreign policy in the Middle East, Nicholas Danforth has collaborated with the German Marshall Fund of the United States, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy.
08.02.2021 / 22:08
HEATHER A. CONLEY
Heather A. Conley is no stranger to Greece as she has made a point of visiting the country every year and also participated in the 2019 Delphi Forum – the last that actually took place in Delphi.
08.02.2021 / 16:25
MONIKA SIE DHIAN HO
Monika Sie Dhian Ho is the general director of Clingendael, the Netherlands Institute of International Relations.
01.02.2021 / 21:03
PAVLOS PAPADOPOULOS
Eminent Turkish academic Kemal Kirisci has worked persistently for peaceful collaboration and friendship between Greece and Turkey.
31.01.2021 / 20:06
COSTIS P. PAPADIOCHOS
Greece is at a crossroads with Turkey where Athens must “answer a simple question: Dialogue or conflict?” “The answer is obvious,” former European commissioner Dimitris Avramopoulos tells Kathimerini – who is clearly in favor of dialogue.
31.01.2021 / 12:28
NEWSROOM
Political scientist Bill Antholis, 56, who has been the director and CEO of the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia since 2014, has a deeper knowledge of the goings-on in Washington than most people.
29.01.2021 / 13:26
VASSILIS NEDOS
Greece and Israe have not yet developed their relationship to its fullest potential, Ambassador Yossi Amrani told Kathimerini in an interview in Athens last week.
28.01.2021 / 19:31
PAVLOS PAPADOPOULOS
Max Hoffman is the associate director of National Security and International Policy at the Center for American Progress and his work is focused on Turkey, Europe and the Middle East. A few days ago he published an authoritative report titled “Flashpoints in US-Turkey Relations in 2021.”
26.01.2021 / 16:26
TOM ELLIS
France looks forward to further strengthening its already close relations with Greece, Florence Parly told Kathimerini in an interview.
25.01.2021 / 18:12
STAVROS PAPANTONIOU
“You do not appease the expansionist. That way he becomes even more ruthless,” Antonis Samaras told Kathimerini, noting exploratory contacts with Ankara, which started on Monday in Istanbul, cancel possible sanctions on Turkey.
24.01.2021 / 18:27
PAVLOS PAPADOPOULOS
If 2020 had been coronavirus-free, it would have been difficult to envision a Donald Trump defeat or to see the global economy operating under strict statist control fueled by printed money. These are only two developments that are bound to cause a kind of lasting change that has not yet been fully realized.
21.01.2021 / 19:39
PAVLOS PAPADOPOULOS
A friend of Greece and regular visitor to the country, Victor Davis Hanson is a rare breed of American intellectual: The professor of classics and military history at the California State University and senior fellow in classics and military history at Stanford University’s Hoover Institute has supported Donald Trump in a number of books and articles.
12.01.2021 / 21:17
VASSILIS NEDOS
Αthens will join a dialogue with Ankara sincerely, constructively, but also fully aware that Turkey is no longer the same country as it was in 2000, with the aspiration to join the European Union, and not even as in 2016, when exploratory talks were launched, Greece’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Nikos Dendias notes in an interview with Kathimerini.
22.12.2020 / 18:02
ALEXIS PAPACHELAS
Following his recovery from the coronavirus, Archbishop of Albania Anastasios talks to Kathimerini about the lessons of the pandemic.
05.12.2020 / 14:52
XENIA KOUNALAKI
The European Union’s proposed rule-of-law mechanism, which prompted Poland and Hungary to veto the bloc’s budget, resembles a coordinated attack on the two countries, according to Warsaw.
29.11.2020 / 19:09
TOM ELLIS
Joe Biden and his foreign policy team are more familiar with Greek issues than any other American administration in history, Endy Zemenides, executive director of the Hellenic American Leadership Council (HALC), tells Kathimerini.
16.11.2020 / 16:37
TOM ELLIS
It does not matter if Donald Trump concedes defeat or not, California Lieutenant Governor Eleni Kounalakis told Kathimerini in an interview. Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have won the election and in January they will take over the helm of the US administration and restore the country’s status as the leading world power, she says.
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