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Jan 15, 2025 | 
ekathimerini.com | 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 or astrology before they can be believed. Serious geopolitical analysts predicted that the global system created by the United States in the aftermath of World War II would eventually be dismantled. They observed the rise of China, Russia’s comeback in the role of a great power, and the West’s declining wealth.
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
ekathimerini.com | Alexis Papachelas
The late premier Costas Simitis is very likely to win the one battle that no politician gets to see the outcome of: the battle for his legacy. Simitis governed in a manner reminiscent of Konstantinos Karamanlis – the notebook he used was the continuation of a way of governing that was practical and based on meeting goals. He was also a politician who had ambitions for Greece.
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Dec 8, 2024 | 
ekathimerini.com | Alexis Papachelas
The Acropolis Museum, the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center (SNFCC), the Thessaloniki Metro: three important projects that constitute landmarks of a modern and evolving Greece. The museum is visited by tens of thousands of tourists and represents one of Greece’s most compelling arguments for the return of the Parthenon Sculptures.
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Dec 4, 2024 | 
ekathimerini.com | Alexis Papachelas
We wonder, sometimes, why people don’t care about what’s going on in the world around them or why they’re happy to get their information by running their finger down their phone’s screen every once in a while; why they mistake scrolling for actually being informed. The media cannot deny that it is partly to blame. Take the weather, for example.
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Dec 3, 2024 | 
ekathimerini.com | Alexis Papachelas
The following conversation with Petros Molyviatis may have taken place 20 years ago, but it could just as well have been yesterday. This is not only because the agenda of Greek-Turkish relations has been shaped since the 1970s, with the fundamental differences that emerged back then remaining unbridged – and Turkey persistently adding new ones. It is also because the veteran diplomat, now aged 96, has always had a way of analyzing situations that stands the test of time.
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Dec 2, 2024 | 
ekathimerini.com | Alexis Papachelas
Most prime ministers in the post-dictatorship period have wanted to come to some form of agreement with Turkey. Konstantinos Karamanlis certainly did, Andreas Papandreou made a solid effort at Davos, Konstantinos Mitsotakis thought of it constantly and Kostas Simitis pursued it systematically. Among the younger generations, it was on the agenda for Kostas Karamanlis, but George Papandreou and Antonis Samaras became wholly engaged by the management of the economic crisis.
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Nov 25, 2024 | 
ekathimerini.com | Alexis Papachelas
As the world becomes more dangerous and unpredictable by the day, we are trying hard to prove the maxim of one very experienced observer of all things Greek: That Greece never misses an opportunity to miss an opportunity. The specter of political risk has suddenly appeared over the country, just when Greece was one of a handful of examples of political stability in a Western world rife with political chaos. Analysts and investors who know what Greece can be like could hardly believe it.
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Nov 18, 2024 | 
ekathimerini.com | Alexis Papachelas
Whoever claims that the culture of absolute political correctness never prevailed in Greece must have lived somewhere else for the last 50 years. Yes, we never became a country where schools and public restrooms had three types of toilets, nor did we ask elementary school children to declare their gender without a right to redress. Any attempt to establish such habits and rules would be dismantled very quickly in the incomparable Greek way, with some jokes and more indifference.
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Nov 11, 2024 | 
flipboard.com | Alexis Papachelas
The civilization we knew is gone | eKathimerini.comThis is an earth changing event. The country which for over a century played a decisive role in how the world developed elected Donald Trump …
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Nov 11, 2024 | 
ekathimerini.com | Alexis Papachelas
Donald Trump’s victory is not just another political event; it marks the end of an era and the dawn of a new one. What’s going to change? Basically the fact that come January, there will be only one rule in the international game of geopolitical chess: Might means right. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will feel the impact of this credo more than anyone else, perhaps, as he will be forced to capitulate to his country’s territorial amputation.
