NIKOS KONSTANDARAS

European Parliament elections: Mirror and distorted image

The performance by the last batch of Greek members of the European Parliament was not a success, by any measure.

The new cold war

The warm climate that Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin made a point of cultivating during the Russian president’s official visit to China confirms that we are at the beginning of a new cold war.

15.05.2024 / 22:08

Balkan entanglements or institutional positions?

We Greeks might like to forget that our country is part of the Balkans, but the peninsula’s political, historical and cultural tensions are always ready to entangle us in new adventures.

10.05.2024 / 20:45

Humanity’s two faces

An 18-month-old girl in England who was born without hearing can now hear almost perfectly, after a brief procedure that resulted from decades of research.

05.05.2024 / 17:51

The Lost Children’s long road home

These days of Easter, when we meet with beloved family and friends, and count our blessings and the dear ones lost, as we celebrate nature’s renewal and the expectation of Resurrection, our minds turn to a group of our people who were cut off from the nation’s body at a very young age and are now trying to win back the Greek citizenship.

04.05.2024 / 21:46

Thunderbolts and expectations

The tragedies at Mati and Tempe, and what followed, strengthen the lack of trust which nests inside us and determines how we see the world and what we do.

03.05.2024 / 19:27

Europe will adapt or die

The time demands that the European Union acts. The problems are evident, from the two wars on its borders and the climate crisis, to the demographic collapse of member-states and the tremors in the international system of political and economic governance.

30.04.2024 / 12:35

Tragedy a ‘glitch’ or ‘product’ of the system?

A premise in the introduction to an interview with the author and playwright Gillian Slovo in The Guardian struck me.

28.04.2024 / 16:15

Making excuses instead of policy

The way those who govern divert responsibility from themselves is a running sore in Greek politics and society.

26.04.2024 / 22:12

Living with bombs

We are justified in often feeling that we are Fortune’s playthings. We must admit, though, that perhaps we are luckier than we deserve.

23.04.2024 / 19:35

The West did not forget Ukraine

A year ago, American officials seemed satisfied with how the war in Ukraine was going, thinking that the longer it went on, the more Vladimir Putin would bleed out, weakening his military and his country.

19.04.2024 / 20:26

Paradoxes strange and revealing

Political parties, news media, trade unions and nongovernmental organizations lie together in a heap at the bottom of the ladder of Greeks’ trust in institutions, each with 1.9 points out of 5.

17.04.2024 / 10:00

A healthy diet for people and the environment

The climate crisis is becoming a direct threat to all. Extreme weather phenomena are accelerating in frequency and intensity, provoking death and disease, social and economic turmoil.

16.04.2024 / 17:03

Israel-Iran clash: Escalation or off-ramp?

Iran’s attack on Israel with more than 300 missiles and drones is a signification escalation of the conflict between the two. For the first time, Iran struck directly at Israel itself, not through proxies.

12.04.2024 / 21:30

Truths and lies about construction

In raging fury, Giorgos Stasinos, president of the Technical Chamber of Greece, on Thursday intervened in the public debate to defend the incentives that the New Construction Regulation (NCR) offers contractors – it allows higher and larger buildings if these are “climate-friendly.”