The United States must take a firmer stance toward Turkey and stop underestimating the growing anti-American sentiment in the country, according to Steven Cook, Eni Enrico Mattei senior fellow for Middle East and Africa studies at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) in Washington, in this interview with Kathimerini.
Austrian analyst and head of the European Stability Initiative Gerald Knaus stresses the need for Greece and other countries to pressure for changes in the European Union’s refugee legislation.
I first met Alexi Giannoulias in early 2013, at an event for Barack Obama’s inauguration. He was chatting with Joe Biden and Chuck Schumer, and they were laughing heartily.
We met with Nikos Petrou, the president of the first environmental organization ever to be established in Greece, the Hellenic Society for the Protection of Nature (HSPN), on a scorching-hot day in downtown Athens.
Any person “who abuses our hospitality or the right to asylum can have no claim to invoke it,” Germany’s Vice Chancellor and Economy Minister Robert Habeck tells Kathimerini in an interview provided through written questions, referring to the recent knife attack in the western town of Solingen.
Fredi Beleri was released from a prison in Albania on Monday, September 2, and on Monday, September 9, is expected in Brussels, where he will serve as a member of the European Parliament after being elected on the ticket of Greece’s governing New Democracy in June.
It was a political romance that turned into political hatred. It happened to many of Donald Trump’s associates who were close to him in the White House.
Whoever wins the US presidential election, the Greek-American relationship – which has been “exceptionally close” in recent years – will remain unaffected, says Kurt Volker, the US special representative for Ukraine during Donald Trump’s presidency, in an interview with Kathimerini.
He was the commander who oversaw the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan, a move he later described as “doomed from the start.”
Greece’s Finance Minister Kostis Hatzidakis defended the introduction of the minimum presumptive income for freelance professionals and the self-employed based on which they were taxed for the first time this year, telling Kathimerini it is a “fair measure” toward salaried employees and pensioners who traditionally paid more tax.
This scientist has been described as a geographer of world history who deciphers the mosaic of human societies and their relationship with the environment: Jared Diamond, professor of geography at the University of California, Los Angeles, discusses concepts of global anthropogeography.
The former CEO of TikTok and former chief operating officer of the parent company ByteDance Ltd, Kevin Mayer, today co-CEO and co-founder of the company Candle Media talks to Kathimerini about the “secrets” that established TikTok at the top of the charts of young people.
The CEO of I.M. Tattom Consulting Ilan Mizrahi, former deputy director of Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency and former national security adviser to the country’s prime minister, analyzes the country’s strategy of “surgical strikes” and its possible side effects in an interview with Kathimerini.
Paul Krugman needs no introduction. A Nobel laureate in economics (2008) and a contributing columnist for The New York Times, he is considered a specialist in deciphering international political and economic dynamics.
She is not the ideal candidate but certainly the best available candidate. This is Robert Kuttner’s view of Vice President Kamala Harris. The co-founder of liberal American magazine The American Prospect stresses in an interview with Kathimerini that it has been a long time since he has seen the Democrats so united.
The UK remains committed to a Cyprus peace deal “under UN parameters,” but “ultimately, it is for the key parties to decide on the details of a settlement,” Stephen Doughty, the newly appointed minister of state in the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, told Kathimerini on the sidelines of his visit to Athens this week.
With the scars still visible on his body 50 years after Turkey invaded Cyprus, Angelos Vougioukas, a member of the Panhellenic Association of Cyprus Fighters of 1974, looks back on the crucial first hours of the Turkish occupation of Cyprus, and the 99 days he spent as a prisoner of the Turkish forces.
Our meeting was originally scheduled to take place on Lesvos, the eastern Aegean island where Yusra Mardini would swim in the same waters where she once risked her life as a refugee nine years ago.
Dr Antonis Armoundas was studying electrical engineering at the National Technical University of Athens in his native Greece when he decided the subject was a bit too dry for his taste.
Iranian artist Tala Madani’s first solo show in Greece, hosted by the National Museum of Contemporary Art (EMST) and curated by Ioli Tzanetaki, captures your attention with the title alone, “Shitty Disco,” borrowed from one of the pieces featured in the exhibition. “It’s like a shitty place that’s not worth spending a night in, but which may still reveal a secret. A place where things are not what you thought they’d be,” says the artist.
With the day after in France marked by uncertainty in party headquarters, Kathimerini contacted the distinguished French historian and visiting professor at Yale Law School, Patrick Weil.
“Neither the Greek Cypriots nor the Turkish Cypriots had affection for the Republic of Cyprus in 1960,” Cypriot President Nikos Christodoulides tells Kathimerini in an extensive interview on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of Turkey’s bloody invasion of the island.
