INTERVIEW


Foreign investors ‘trust NBG’
BANKING

The share capital of National Bank of Greece (NBG), the country’s biggest lender by assets, is now covered by over two thirds (67%) by international investors.


‘Pirate’ Erdogan’s visit a mistake, says ex-PM
ANTONIS SAMARAS

Antonis Samaras, the former prime minister (2012-15) and leader of conservative New Democracy (2009-15) has told Kathimerini, that he is opposed to the upcoming visit of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, whom he insisted on calling a “pirate” as he has done in the past.

PM says Greece to strengthen guarding of borders
NEWS

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis in an interview on Wednesday evening expressed his grief for the tragic attack on civilians in the Gaza hospital and asked for an investigation into the tragedy.


Analyzing the lapses of the Israeli security services
IN DEPTH

The former deputy director of Mossad and member of the MirYam Institute, Naftali Granot, and the former commander of Israel’s elite Special Forces unit Sayeret Matkal, Dr Doron Avital, share with Kathimerini their views about the operational and intelligence lapses that paved the way for Hamas’s deadly incursion into southern Israel on 7 October.

ECB should not stop bond buys early, says Stournaras
ECONOMY

The European Central Bank should not stop its bond purchases early because they may still need to calm jittery markets but it is down to governments, including Italy’s, to keep bondholders on side, ECB policymaker Yannis Stournaras told Reuters.



The new constellation of journalism
STEPHEN DUNBAR-JOHNSON

The prophecies about the demise of newspapers have become more outdated than the newspapers themselves, as they are gradually finding ways to survive in the chaotic digital landscape.

Kasselakis says he will fulfill military duties
NEWS

Just a few days after being elected the new leader of Greece’s left-wing main opposition party, Stefanos Kasselakis said Thursday that he will be taking a brief break from politics – to join the military.


The arrest of Beleri ‘has nothing to do with me’
EDI RAMA

Last Monday morning, I received a message from an unknown Albanian number that criticized a report I had written in last Sunday’s Kathimerini on the imprisonment of Fredi Beleri, the ethnic Greek mayor-elect of the city of Himare in southern Albania, in which the Albanian prime minister is accused of involvement […]

Greece is India’s ‘gateway’ into the EU
NARENDRA MODI

It took 40 years for an Indian prime minister to visit Athens, since Indira Gandhi came to Greece in September 1983. Narendra Modi represents a very different country today compared to what India was in the 1980s.