Greek President Prokopis Pavlopoulos on Sunday inaugurated the sixth installment of the Athens Democracy Forum, an annual event established by the New York Times, Kathimerini and the United Nations Democracy Fund to address the hot-button issues being debated in today’s liberal societies.
The mayor of the Greek capital, Giorgos Kaminis, has bestowed the City of Athens Democracy Award on the former president of Mozambique, Joaquim Alberto Chissano, for his fundamental role in ending the civil war in his country and establishing democracy.
The fourth Athens Democracy Forum is hosting leading personalities from the areas of politics, journalism, civil society and business this month for an in-depth discussion on the challenges of democracy.
Felipe Gonzalez, prime minister of Spain for four consecutive terms (1982-96), was in the Greek capital last week to receive the City of Athens Democracy Award in the context of the annual Athens Democracy Forum. Before the ceremony, Kathimerini had the opportunity to interview him on a wide range of topics.
“Wow! What is this?” a young American woman asked chef Lefteris Lazarou after taking her first bite of velvety mashed Naxos potatoes with smoked eel and truffle oil.
In a discussion with Kathimerini’s executive editor Alexis Papachelas at the Athens Democracy Forum, the president of The New York Times, Mark Thompson, explored the challenges posed by failing trust in politicians and the media.
The president and CEO of The New York Times, Mark Thompson, and Kathimerini Executive Editor Alexis Papachelas talk about the crisis in political discourse and the legitimacy challenges of the political system. The discussion is being held at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center as part of the Athens Democracy Forum. Watch it live here.
One of the few positive things to happen in Greece in the years of the crisis was the establishment of the annual New York Times’ forum on democracy in Athens.
Former United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan issued a dire warning over the future of democracy in a speech Wednesday on the opening day of the annual Athens Democracy Forum, organized by The New York Times and Kathimerini.
An exhibition of newspaper cartoons titled “A Year in the Democratic World, Through the Eyes of Visual Artists” comprises part of the Athens Democracy Forum, running September 13-17.
The annual Athens Democracy Forum organized by the New York Times and Kathimerini gets under way in the Greek capital on Wednesday.
Steven Erlanger, the New York Times bureau chief for London (left), and Kenneth Roth, the executive director of Human Rights Watch, converse with Edward Snowden, a former contractor for the CIA who leaked US government documents, who joined an Athens Democracy Conference discussion via live video link on Friday. Snowden, who is in exile in Moscow, said he intends to vote in the US presidential election but expressed disappointment that the issue of civil rights was not being widely discussed in the election campaign. [Pantelis Saitas/ANA-MPA]
Greece would be better off outside the eurozone, American economist and op-ed columnist for The New York Times Paul Krugman told the Athens Democracy Forum Wednesday.
The images of people perilously afloat in overcrowded boats, thronging in railway stations, huddled in tents, challenges our humanity in a stark and urgent way.
There is nothing like an international meeting on democracy to allow us Greeks to mark the depth of the hole into which we have sunk and to consider ways to move ahead.
When French economist Thomas Piketty published “Capital” in 2013, it sparked an intense theoretical debate about his finding.
