George Gilson has worked as a reporter and news analyst for a variety of media outlets in Greece since 1998, covering politics, diplomacy, and church affairs. In 1996-1997 he served as the first press officer at the Ecumenical Patriarchate.
In the 15 months since the beginning of Donald Trump’s second administration, the US president has brought about a global geopolitical and economic cosmogony that has left America’s friends and foes scrambling to adjust to a world in which old red lines are rapidly vanishing and the hyper-globalization inaugurated in the 1990s is in the process of being supplanted by the state, which is making a “huge comeback”
America’s hard-right think tank has exerted strong influence over policy through an ideological manifesto
In a groundbreaking new study, Stathis Kalyvas and Natasha Triantafylli trace the artistic, literary cosmogony under the Colonels’ seven-year dictatorship
The world’s greatest repository of Greek antiquities to shut down for five years at least for expansion, restructuring museological approach
The legendary songwriter and producer has begun a campaign for their return, and a new documentary about his smash 2022 benefit concert at the Herodion will be screened internationally
In an interview with To Vima International Edition, Dr. Amir Ali Farman-Farma sets out the challenging internal, regional and global parameters of the day after in his country
The still evolving General Secretariat for National Security offers continual coordination between the executive branch and defence-related ministries and agencies, as an ‘honest broker’
Whether the trilateral strategic military-economic partnership can affect geopolitical balances in the Mediterranean remains unclear
PM’s address while noting the huge vistas opened by new technologies, stresses fair distribution of dividends, regulatory priorities
Oxford Professor of History A.E. Stallings’ new book weaves a marvellous tapestry of how poets, artists and others framed the issue
Moscow’s anger over the independence of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine, and the prospect of Baltic Orthodox Churches following suit, is all about Putin’s geopolitical ambitions
‘The first modest distribution of royalties to rightsholders was a source of pride for all of us’ told To Vima International edition Louka Katseli, General manager of EDEM, who explains how a veritable cesspool was transformed into a fully transparent, effective organisation that fully protects the rights of composers, lyricists and singers (and their heirs)
One of Greece’s greatest 20th century actresses fell victim to the spitefulness of her own colleagues and the untrammeled political passions of the latter part of the resistance against the Nazis and the nascent Civil War
In an interview with To Vima International edition, professor and politician Tasos Giannitsis explains the need to restructure the country’s economic base and the obstacle of vested interests
The convening of the Greek-Turkish Supreme Cooperation Council in early 2026 could be the first step toward resolving decades-long differences, but Turkey’s willingness to follow tenets of international law remains doubtful
The former leader of the ‘radical left’ coalition is rebranding as a centrist and wants to collect the pieces of the Left that he shattered and create a grass roots ‘progressive party’
The historic commemoration of the 1,700th anniversary of the First Ecumenical Council harkened back to a time of Christian unity, but the burden of the past weighs heavily in efforts to restore it.
This is Leo’s first papal pilgrimage abroad, and that it is to visit Bartholomew carries the weighty symbolism of his determination to push forward the dialogue between the two Churches
On 28 November, Leo and Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew will join hands at the site of the Ecumenical Council, Iznik of modern Turkey
The internationally renowned sculptor, in a wide-ranging interview with To Vima International edition, speaks about the social role and commercialisation of art and culture, the meaning of patriotism, and an all-powerful economy that overshadows everything.