Opinions

What does the selection of Mark Rutte as the new NATO Secretary General mean for the future of the Alliance and Greece?

Αt a time of various crises, tensions, but also οf military conflicts,  how do people assess humanity’s prospects? What can Greece, the birthplace of Western culture, expect from Eastern cultures? An answer is provided by a recent resolution of the 78th General Assembly of the United Nations, adopted by consensus, which declares  June 10 as […]

No one has ever claimed or implied that Chairman Mao was centre-left. I suspect that if someone had told him so to his face, he wouldn’t have known what they were talking about. Not that this has prevented Greece’s centre-left from honouring him by confirming a famous saying of his in practice: “great disorder under […]

Only hypocrites or the deliberately obtuse can claim not to have understood what happened in the European elections. Because, one, there’s nothing complicated about it, and two, it’s clear as day. New Democracy didn’t bother actually talking to the voters, never so much as mentioned the things that concern them, so it’s no surprise many […]

Europe’s voters have shifted the political balance to the right. In France and Germany, traditionally the political power centers of the European Union, far-right parties are celebrating historic triumphs. How these tectonic shifts will affect political processes remains to be seen. The leaders of the right-wing parties are notorious for their radical rhetoric. Finding consensus, […]

If a visitor to Greece believed everything they heard recently on TV and in the coffee shops, they would have fallen from the clouds today. Because—amazingly—the citizens of Greece aren’t voting to bring down the government or raise up the opposition! No, we will have the self-same government and opposition tomorrow. Nor are they are […]

The prevailing mood in Europe is troubled. Europe and the European Union are no strangers to crises, yet currently, the challenges are mounting both within the bloc and beyond its borders. When Europeans last elected members of the European Parliament in 2019, climate change dominated the debates. Additionally, the impact of Donald Trump’s presidency and […]

The more technology advances, the more we wish for long-lost simpler times.

Israel’s war with Hamas in Gaza is about to enter its ninth month. Russia’s war with Ukraine is now in its third year. And there are still no signs of normalization or appeasement on the horizon. Even worse, none of the warring parties appears to have a strategy for exiting crises which, with no prospect […]