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Yiannis Kafkarides

Against all odds

Cyprus elects first ever Turkish Cypriot MEP, shuns nationalists

Eleni Xenou

How much longer?

I wonder whether all this time since the economic crisis was enough to make us really angry, and I mean, really angry, not ...

Alexis Papachelas

A new chapter for Greece

The dilemma Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras presented voters with has failed

Alexis Papachelas

Ghosts of history

It’s quite tragic that, 75 years after the Greek civil war, we have reached the point where prominent resistance leader ...

Eleni Xenou

Did someone say Europe?

We are just days away from elections and it seems that we need to be reminded about which elections we are talking about

Alexis Papachelas

Old Greece is waiting around the corner

Populism cuts across political parties in Greece

Marina Economides

Toxic environment

The elections will be over in a few days and base politics will take their place, along with voter abstention after all ...

Alexis Papachelas

Turkey is waiting for its next opportunity

Greek-Turkish relations in the forefront

Eleni Xenou

So are we racists?

It’s the latest subject tossed around in various panels, following reports in the foreign media that have zoomed in on all ...

Yiannis Kafkarides

Cry havoc!

The decision by the President to call the Turkish incursion into the Cyprus EEZ an invasion has raised eyebrows both at ...

Alexis Papachelas

An enlightened decision

The search for the next archbishop of America

Athanasios Ellis

Erdogan against the US, Europe, Israel and Egypt

Greece and Cyprus have responded with calm and caution to the tension being stirred up in the Eastern Mediterranean by Turkey ...

Athanasios Ellis

Senator Menendez and the Greek Americans

The regional landscape is changing

Alexis Papachelas

Son-in-law diplomacy

White House meeting between Erdogan’s son-in-law and Trump’s son-in-law raises eyebrows in Greece

Marina Economides

Two worlds on a collision course

When Nicos Anastasiades was campaigning in 2013 for the presidency in the Republic of Cyprus under the banner “leadership ...

Yiannis Kafkarides

Political Will

The UN report on Cyprus spells out that there is no political will for a solution

Nikos Stelgias

Opposition flaws are democracy’s problem

Political opposition parties stuck in old ways push traditional voters into a dangerous corner

Athanasios Ellis

Forging a common policy line

Greece needs to show the required political maturity

Alexis Papachelas

Caution and prudence

The next government will be called upon to make historic decisions. Until we get there, a good deal of prudence is advisable ...

Alexis Papachelas

Erdogan’s dilemmas

Turkey is plunging into a deep crisis

Athanasios Ellis

The Israeli elections and Greece

The strategic democratic line from Jerusalem to Athens is here to stay

Athanasios Ellis

As some in the US question NATO, Greece invests in the alliance

Greece comes second only to the US in the ratio of its defense expenditure

Athanasios Ellis

Working with Israel and Jewish Americans

Nicosia favors the creation of a liquefied natural gas terminal on Cyprus

Alexis Papachelas

Not a day seems to have gone by

Reading an article by Kathimerini founder Georgios Vlachos

Athanasios Ellis

A Greek prime minister at the White House

Not a single word was heard on Greece’s role as a strategic ally in a difficult region of the world

Yiannis Kafkarides

Westward Bound

Pompeo’s comments in Jerusalem tell the story of western political culture

Athanasios Ellis

Turkey’s threats and Greece’s strength

The upcoming regional elections in Turkey partly explain some of the excessive rhetoric from Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Marina Economides

Pass the buck

This was a narrative that they managed to pull through for an entire five-year term in office. Because each time people ...

Athanasios Ellis

The influence of Greek Americans and relations with Turkey

The power of the diaspora should not be discounted

Eleni Xenou

How to shield a dead body

According to our 'wise' president, we now have to reflect and ask ourselves about something that has always been at the ...

Alexis Papachelas

For a strong Europe

Does the rest of Europe want to see Germany in a new leading role?

Marina Economides

You can call it political karma

With the re-election of Nicos Anastasiades, many were puzzled with Harris Georgiades’ decision to insist that he not be ...

Alexis Papachelas

Critics must put their money where their mouth is

Americans and Europeans often complain about China’s economic penetration of Greece

Eleni Xenou

Probe on a probe finding

It was to be expected that the president of the Republic would stand by the finance minister, emphasizing that he still ...

Alexis Papachelas

The breakdown of civil protection

In Greece the political pendulum has often swung from one extreme to the other

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