Alexis Papachelas Everyone who knows America well and has been observing it for years is – at the very best – feeling numb right now. But...
Editorial and Analysis
America First Goes Global
With President Donald J. Trump’s appointment of U.S. Senator Marco Rubio as the new Secretary of State, the State Department is set for a...
Pandora’s Box: The Next Day in Syria
The overthrow of Assad opened Pandora's Box for Syria and the wider West Asia region, signaling the expected escalation and...
Exhausting second terms
Alexis Papachelas A second term in government is always tiring, not to say exhausting. Whether or not there’s a rival matters little,...
Greece in the Trump era
Tom Ellis Greece, along with the rest of the world, is waiting for the new US Administration to start planning and implementing its...
Trump’s presidency, a turning point or worse?
Newsroom Donald Trump is being sworn in as the United States’ 47th president, under the Capitol’s Dome, where, four years ago, violent...
EU must wake up and speed up; Greece needs to stay the fiscal course
Kostis Hatzidakis - US President Donald Trump’s agenda has drawn the attention of the international community – and not without good...
A positive assessment
Editorial Katerina Sakellaropoulou’s presidential term, which expires in a few weeks, was historic because it marked the elevation of the...
A Bold New Era for America
On January 20th, Donald J. Trump takes the oath of office as the 47th President of the United States, marking the beginning of a new era....
The end of American benevolence?
Spyros N. Litsas As expected, Donald Trump’s second term in office was not to be unnoticeable. It is not just the political persona of the...
Consensus without reciprocity
Paschos Mandravelis It is true, as the Maximos Mansion asserts (and its loyal mouthpieces uncritically echo), that Konstantinos Tasoulas,...
When ministers and MPs meddle
Maria Katsounaki In the “extremely urgent” directive that the president of the Supreme Court, Ioanna Klapa, has issued to all the...
Τrump and Erdogan
Costas Iordanidis The ruling class, and the political class in general, in Greece has been disturbed by the praise US President-elect...
An excess of bile
Nikos Konstandaras Even though the great questions of national identity and the form of the polity that plagued the Greeks since the War...
Sacrificing consensus for symbolism
Paschos Mandravelis We cannot but ask: Why should the term of the president of Greece be extended to six years from five and not to seven?...
The fall of Bashar al-Assad
Nikos Papandreou The fall of Bashar al-Assad from power in Syria may have brought a wind of optimism to citizens of the troubled Arab...
A president for everyone, not just the majority
Tom Ellis New Democracy’s nomination of Parliament Speaker Konstantinos Tasoulas for president of the Hellenic Republic ensures unity in...
Once upon a time in the West
Nikos Konstandaras In a week’s time we will know whether Donald Trump upheld his “promise” to shock and awe the world on the first day of...
Obsolete tools
Alexis Papachelas Come Monday, the world will be changing and anyone who claims to know just how will need to produce a degree in wizardry...
Reforming Greece’s military
Tom Ellis Most Greek experts on military and security affairs, including many in uniform, have for years pointed out the need for a...
