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Narendra Modi’s trip to Ukraine, after a two-day visit to Poland, will be the first by an Indian prime minister since diplomatic relations between the two countries were established over 30 years ago. It comes at a crucial juncture of the war, with Russian troops making advances in Donbas and Ukrainian forces venturing a surprise […]

August is a no-news month. We’ve heard it over and over. We’ve taken it on board. Besides, most journalists are on holiday. Although the newspapers and TV channels keep on publishing and broadcasting. Even if there’s no news, even with fewer journalists on the job. What August does have, though, is fires. Every year—regular as […]

With war in Ukraine and the Middle East, race riots in the UK, the threat of terrorism hanging over France and Belgium, unrest in Germany, and the specter of Jihad and Putin hovering over Europe, any talk of “national security” is either made in jest or hopelessly naive. Not simply because security is the second […]

Kamala Harris has the wind at her back. Her strengths became clearer in the past two weeks.

Hezbollah and Iran may feel constrained to limit their responses to the Jewish state’s strikes.

Yet again, the Middle East is on the verge of a major conflagration. The smell of gunpowder is in the air once more. Every new wave of bloodshed is a response to the one before it and the seed for the one that follows. I don’t know many people who will be mourning the death […]

"above all else, democracy is a culture"

My first visit to a second-hand clothing and accessories store (Greeks call them “used clothes” but that just sounds wrong… or is it just me?) was when Evocative Thread Treasures first opened its doors behind a metro station downtown. I was already following them on Instagram when I saw the most incredible yellow coat I […]

"We’ve made a democracy, now we have to make the democrats".

Greece has frequently been at the epicenter of European attention in different fields. The outbreak of the debt crisis in 2009 and the risk of Greece to leave the Eurozone and cause a systemic domino effect, for instance, heavily influenced European economic governance. In difficult times for the national economy, it was the role of […]

So, obviously, we don't expect Erdogan and Mitsotakis to settle accounts that go back multiple decades. But we do expect them to talk.

Europe’s immediate neighborhood of the Western Balkans is facing symptoms of deterioration such as a worsening situation regarding the rule of law, rise of nationalist forces challenging international treaties and a deterioration of good neighborly relations with the European Union and its members. Political dynamics cast a shadow over the region’s economies, slowing down any […]

The European elections are a painless process in themselves, but this time round they paved the way for an electoral contest that could seriously disrupt European democracy. President Macron has called a general election, the French are voting in the first round today, and the latest polls show a clear lead for the unrepentant far-right […]

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