In an interview with To Vima International Edition, Professor of French History at Harvard University, Mary D. Lewis, examines the historical roots of France’s social unrest, the contradictions of republican ideals and the growing divisions reshaping French society.

Gadi Ezra, former Director of Israel’s National Public Diplomacy Unit and veteran of an elite IDF paratrooper unit, explains why the election may produce no clear governing majority, what is dividing Israeli society and how October 7 could shape the country’s political future.

Greece has become good at finding breast cancer early. It has yet, say doctors, patients and charities, to build a system that carries a woman to recovery without her organising, and often paying for, much of it herself.

There is much to welcome in a government shaping policy with an eye towards the prospects of future generations of Greeks; the ambition deserves serious consideration, but the proposal rests on assumptions worth more scrutiny than its expected returns

As rents soar, a growing number of Greeks are slipping out of secure housing without ever reaching the street, invisible to official statistics and, so far, to state policy

Serbia heads to a pivotal election as a student-led movement challenges the political order build around Aleksandr Vučić . The vote will also expose deeper tensions over Europe, Russia, China, Kosovo and Greece's ambitions for the Western Balkans.

Two years after Novi Sad, with resemblances to Tempi, a bloc of Serbia’s students bills the October 25 election as a choice between “Serbia or the mafia,” fielding 250 candidates

The Greek government has announced a new matched-savings scheme under which a family that contributes regularly could build an investment account worth more than €60,000 by the time a child turns 18. But can a scheme that rewards parents’ ability to save deliver opportunities to those who need it most?