INTERVIEWS


‘New Democracy is a multifaceted party’
13.03.2024 / 11:55 STAVROS PAPASTAVROU

There is an “invisible thread” connecting the conservative governments of Antonis Samaras (2012-2015) and the current administration of Kyriakos Mitsotakis, according to Minister of State Stavros Papastavrou.



Yes to digital consultation, internal referendums
10.03.2024 / 17:52 STEFANOS KASSELAKIS

In an interview with Kathimerini, SYRIZA leader Stefanos Kasselakis declares that he is ready to sit at the same table with other progressive parties, provided they respect his party’s role as the main opposition.



The forgotten, invisible safe spaces under Athens
06.03.2024 / 19:55 DIMITRIS KARAISKOS

A network of thousands of underground spaces are scattered beneath Athens. Pedestrians hurry past them, not suspecting that the metal lid of a manhole they have just stepped on is one of the gates to a vast web of spaces, which for decades has been sealed in silence and oblivion.



From Kaisariani to Strasbourg
04.03.2024 / 22:00 THEODOROS ROUSSOPOULOS

“Hello, Mr Roussopoulos. Congratulations!” said a customer from another table at the taverna in Ilioupoli, where Kathimerini met on Tuesday with the first Greek politician to be unanimously elected the 35th president of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE).



The classical violinist who can pack a stadium
28.02.2024 / 21:48 ANDRE RIEU

“Beethoven needed four notes for his 5th Symphony to be recognized: ta-ta-ta-taaaa. Theodorakis only needed two: pa-dam!” the famous Dutch violinist and conductor Andre Rieu tells Kathimerini while he is preparing for his first concert in Greece with his Johann Strauss Orchestra.



Expert on Alexander the Great weighs into debate about docudrama on his life


Channels of communication with Turkey are working, says shipping minister
27.02.2024 / 14:56 CHRISTOS STYLIANIDES

The channels of communication with Ankara are working, which is why tension was avoided at the most recent incident to take place near the uninhabited Imia islets in the southeastern Aegean, Greece’s minister of maritime affairs and island policy, Christos Stylianides, tells Kathimerini.



‘It is time’ for strategic autonomy in the EU
26.02.2024 / 15:45 ROBERTA METSOLA

The steps toward upgrading the European defense structure are outlined in a Kathimerini interview with the president of the European Parliament, Roberta Metsola.



Trump is ‘very serious’ about leaving NATO
23.02.2024 / 00:45 JOHN BOLTON

“Erdogan would appeal to Trump as somebody who he could work with and I think Trump would accept that,” says the onetime White House hawk Ambassador John Bolton.



The country that blazed a trail for same-sex weddings
15.02.2024 / 21:15 SUSANNA TERSTAL

Marriage equality was a matter of debate as early as 1960 in the Netherlands. It became law in 2001. At the time, the country was the first in the world to legalize marriage for same-sex couples.



US will be ‘closely monitoring’ Turkey
12.02.2024 / 12:16 CHRIS VAN HOLLEN

The Biden administration has assured the US Congress that it will closely monitor Turkey’s behavior towards Greece, particularly focusing on potential overflights of Turkish F-16s over Greek islands and violations of Greek airspace, Chris Van Hollen, a Democrat who sits on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, says in an interview with Kathimerini, emphasizing that there […]



How to prepare Greece for the onslaught of AI
11.02.2024 / 23:31 DAVID EVAN HARRIS

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.



Greek-American filmmaker revisits 1970s in ‘The Holdovers’
26.01.2024 / 11:55 ALEXANDER PAYNE

Even though he’s a frequent visitor to Greece – coming in the summer for the Evia Film Project and in autumn for the Thessaloniki International Film Festival – Kathimerini caught up with Alexander Payne in London this time.



Land of warmth, light and antiquity


No breaks on the path of radical reform
22.01.2024 / 22:03 KYRIAKOS PIERRAKAKIS

It took him just nine months in office in his first-ever term in government to score his first big win as head of the ministry responsible for bringing Greek bureaucracy into the digital age.



Greece has managed migration better than most European countries


We can’t keep buying off the shelf
14.01.2024 / 15:14 NIKOS DENDIAS

Friday’s sweeping overhaul of Greece’s military leadership is indicative of a radical shift in the dogma governing how the armed forces are run, Defense Minister Nikos Dendias tells Kathimerini in an exclusive interview.



Why the political system fails us – and how to fix it
14.01.2024 / 12:00 BEN ANSELL

Why politics fails and what share of responsibility do citizens bear in a failed political system? These are the overarching questions that Ben Ansell, professor of comparative democratic institutions at the University of Oxford, tries to answer in his new book



Prospects for Greek-Turkish relations to emerge clearly by spring
03.01.2024 / 10:40 RYAN GINGERAS

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan appears to have “less of an appetite for tensions with Greece,” according to Ryan Gingeras, a professor in the Department of National Security Affairs at the Naval Postgraduate School in California, in an interview with Kathimerini.



Geopolitical myths and realities in 2024
02.01.2024 / 13:30 ROBERT KAPLAN

Robert Kaplan, the distinguished international relations expert, outlines the geopolitical developments that will dominate the new year, in an interview with Kathimerini.



Schaeuble always asked after the ‘ordinary Greek’