With Ithaca, Alexis Tsipras is attempting not only to return to politics but also to create a heavyweight, unrestricted opposition pole. But what opposition has ever found its footing in an environment of “shock and awe,” where, beyond the classic adversaries, former comrades shoot indiscriminately with their familiar bile, and Internet trolls, hidden behind their anonymity, do the same?

While negotiations in Belém focus on mutually acceptable mechanisms for safeguarding climate resilience, Typhoon Kalmaegi is killing hundreds in Southeast Asia, while Fung-wong forces over a million people to flee their homes

As prices in Greece spiral far beyond wages, everyday shopping raises a painful question: how can a family survive on the average salary? New poverty data reveals the stark truth—many simply don’t.

As someone rightly noted recently, the needle really does seem to be stuck and there’s no indication it will be getting unstuck any time soon. It is no coincidence that all the polls since the European elections have outlined the same picture with only minimal fluctuations. The positive reading is that they point to a […]

The world has been turned upside down and the threat facing Europe today is existential. The more people realize that—and the faster they do so—the better. Because Europe has to wake up—and respond accordingly

How satellites can become daily tools for security and resilience

Aristotle’s golden mean applied to modern economies — why Japan’s balance of assets and debt sustains trust

As COP30 begins in Belém, Brazil, the Paris Agreement faces its most difficult test yet — rising emissions, record heat, and geopolitical divisions that threaten the future of global climate cooperation

AI can write a novel, but it cannot give meaning to a life story. Nor can it be moved by one

No matter how fast Hermes flies, it will still take him hours to bridge the gap between the absolute statists and those who read only balance sheets. The government had bet on an easy communications stroll. But, speaking in betting terms, it lost. So what?

In Greece, the new energy alignment with the United States is being celebrated as a strategic victory in the country’s ongoing maritime rivalry with Turkey

The surprise victory of a left-wing Muslim immigrant as mayor of New York, the city that built Trump’s empire, sends a powerful signal of political change — one that could reshape the balance of power ahead of America’s next elections.

If you want to become an international energy hub, if you want to claim a distinct niche for yourself on the new geopolitical map, you cannot welcome the future with Kalashnikovs and clans on Crete.

Brussels sanctions Moscow within hours yet avoids calling Ankara what it is—a state occupying EU soil. If Europe cannot protect its own, its sovereignty is an illusion

You no longer know where to sit down for a moment to rest from this monotonous fatigue

How Xi Jinping’s vision merges Plato’s Republic, Aristotle’s ethics, and Confucian virtue into a 21st-century model of governance.

What is the cost of the arms race, and how much of it can we bear?

In Greece, the tax bias is obvious: wage earners and pensioners pay a flat tax rate, while a sizable proportion of high incomes engage in tax avoidance. At the same time, bureaucracy acts as a second, invisible tax discouraging investment

As Europe moves closer to defense cooperation with Ankara, Turkey’s growing assertiveness and shifting strategy are reshaping regional power dynamics — with direct consequences for Greece and Cyprus.

The rearmament of Europe and Turkey’s activities in the wider region bring a question that has long exercised Greek politics back to the fore. What sort of Turkey do we want? Obviously, the question is rhetorical. No nation, Turkey or any other, is ever going to ask us what kind of country we would like […]