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Trump is ‘very serious’ about leaving NATO

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.

15.02.2024 / 21:15

The country that blazed a trail for same-sex weddings

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.

12.02.2024 / 12:16

US will be ‘closely monitoring’ Turkey

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 […]

11.02.2024 / 23:31

How to prepare Greece for the onslaught of AI

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.

26.01.2024 / 11:55

Greek-American filmmaker revisits 1970s in ‘The Holdovers’

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.

25.01.2024 / 16:30

Land of warmth, light and antiquity

VICTORIA HISLOP

Victoria Hislop first visited Greece with her mother and sister in 1976, at the age of 17.

22.01.2024 / 22:03

No breaks on the path of radical reform

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.

19.01.2024 / 11:02

Greece has managed migration better than most European countries

KYRIAKOS MITSOTAKIS

Greece has addressed the migration issue more effectively than most of its European counterparts, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said in an interview with journalist Richard Quest on CNN on Friday.

14.01.2024 / 15:14

We can’t keep buying off the shelf

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.

14.01.2024 / 12:00

Why the political system fails us – and how to fix it

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

03.01.2024 / 10:40

Prospects for Greek-Turkish relations to emerge clearly by spring

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.

02.01.2024 / 13:30

Geopolitical myths and realities in 2024

ROBERT KAPLAN

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

01.01.2024 / 17:11

Schaeuble always asked after the ‘ordinary Greek’

PETER SCHOOF

The former German ambassador to Athens during the challenging period from 2014 to 2017, Dr Peter Schoof reflects on the recent passing of Wolfgang Schaeuble.

01.01.2024 / 14:03

Schaeuble did not want the IMF’s involvement in Greece

HAROLD JAMES

Before the tumultuous year of 2015, Greece actually came close to leaving the eurozone in 2012, following the election of Antonis Samaras as prime minister.

31.12.2023 / 16:07

Greece, the world’s best turnaround story

IAN BREMMER

The founder and president of Eurasia Group lauds Greece as “the world’s best turnaround story” for the past year in this interview with Kathimerini

21.12.2023 / 16:01

‘There is no reason why animals cannot have legal standing’

MARTHA NUSSBAUM

How would you feel about litigation with parties representing animals, or banning industrial animal husbandry in favor of less brutal forms of producing meat, such as growing it in a lab?

20.12.2023 / 13:28

Trump already ‘gave us warnings’

SUSAN GLASSER

The morning after the event celebrating the 25th anniversary of the collaboration between Kathimerini and The New York Times for the former’s English-language edition, thanks to which American columnist Susan Glasser was in Athens for the first time, we meet at the cafe of a hotel in central Athens.

19.12.2023 / 21:27

America lost the ‘moral high ground’ on January 6

PETER BAKER

Donald Trump’s behavior has been a blight on American democracy and on the United States’ ability to exert influence over the rest of the world, The New York Times’ chief White House correspondent Peter Baker tells Kathimerini. The well-known journalist, who has Greek roots, also stresses that US President Joe Biden’s […]

15.12.2023 / 22:33

Preaching Orthodox Christianity in the jungles of Colombia

BISHOP TIMOTHEOS OF ASSOS

He came to our meeting with his three companeros. He had just arrived at the mission’s offices in Thessaloniki from Colombia and he greeted me singing, “Hello, Mother Saloniki,” a song by popular singer Zafiris Melas. “I love Thessaloniki. I studied here, at the Aristotle School of Theology. I carry the […]

13.12.2023 / 20:42

‘We have to fight all over the Gaza Strip’

YAAKOV PERI

Despite the return of the first 50 prisoners to Israeli territory and the temporary ceasefire, clashes on the ground in the Gaza Strip have resumed, while the security services continue to search for the abductees.

06.12.2023 / 10:28

‘My friend Kyriakos, we don’t threaten you, if you don’t threaten us’

RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN

In an exclusive interview with Kathimerini, 24 hours prior to his scheduled arrival in Athens, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan addressed a range of issues concerning Greek-Turkish relations, highlighting his vision for a “new page” in bilateral ties based on a “win-win” formula.

30.11.2023 / 21:17

Joint solution on migration needed

ANDREAS KINDL

Berlin appreciates Greece’s efforts to contain migrant flows into the European Union but it is also hoping to discuss ways of reducing secondary migration to Germany, the country’s new ambassador to Greece, Andreas Kindl, tells Kathimerini in his first interview from his new post in Athens.