Greece’s Speaker of Parliament is sounding the alarm. “Future historians will write about a state and a society committing gradual demographic suicide,” Nikitas Kaklamanis warned, referring to the country’s population decline.

Le Pen and Erdogan feed each other without affection. Erdogan pressures Europe; Le Pen gains an exhibit. Le Pen weakens Europe; Erdogan gains space

Unlike democracy, which is inclusive to the point of risking itself, the Center and its fringes cannot accommodate everyone

As far-right influence spreads through media, publishing and cinema, artists and intellectuals across Europe are warning that the battle for culture has become a battle for democracy itself

From the looks of it, that is exactly how we will head to the polls— with little reason to hope that the turmoil will subside on election night

Plato, Institutional Equilibrium, and the Politics of Participation in the Asia-Pacific

Water security now directly affects energy systems. Energy systems increasingly determine industrial competitiveness. Industrial competitiveness increasingly shapes geopolitical stability

In a modern European country, the operation of public infrastructure should be governed by fundamental principles: transparency, equality before the law, and equal access. When these principles erode, the result is not merely dysfunction—it is a distortion that gradually becomes entrenched. Something along these lines appears to have been unfolding for years at the Tatoi […]

For many Greek islands, desalination has already shifted from “expensive last resort” to economic necessity

When will the elections be held, who will be the next one. Fine material for public analysis and private gossip, but neither analysis nor gossip can build the next day

There’s not much you can say in a country where two 17-year-old girls link hands, then leap off a roof to their deaths. Best to keep your mouth shut.

Seventy-six years ago, Robert Schuman proposed a bold vision: that European nations, still scarred by war, should unite their coal and steel production under a common authority — laying the foundations for what would later become the European Union.

European boards face a paradox that traditional financial analysis cannot solve: Why is access to credit tightening even as central banks ease monetary policy?

Sparta, Qin (“the Sparta of the East”), and the logic of strategic rivalry between Trump and Xi

The public debate over AI is usually framed in practical questions. But beneath them lies a deeper one: What exactly are we comparing the machine to?

Greece faces an uncomfortable contradiction: it's economic engine depends heavily on sectors that cannot function without reliable water and runs hardest during the hottest and driest months of the year

The map is the trap.

A persistent anxiety runs through Western democracies, often reflected in the tone of public debate, in the exhaustion of citizens, in the speed with which anger can become a political manifesto. This is a crisis of political culture.

None of the opposition parties — nor any future parties yet to be announced — can force elections. But neither do they have any reason to rush toward the ballot box by rubbing the genie’s bottle themselves.

Political parties are gearing up, the questions of internal change loom