OPINION

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13.07.2026 / 21:21

Prudence is the way forward

Greek entrepreneurship can work wonders. There are many successful examples of companies that endured the country’s debt crisis and pursued a path of extroversion and exports.

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13.07.2026 / 08:12 SOPHIA KALANTZAKOS

The summer of our discontent

June gave us a reprieve. Athens breathed more easily than it has in recent years.

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12.07.2026 / 20:02

It’s terrorism, plain and simple

Terrorism’s overarching aims tend to be highly symbolic, baseless and unreasonable. Strikes against the “ruling class” and the “enemy of the people” – and the collateral losses that may result from them – are not imbued with any strategic wisdom simply because those responsible adopt a particular name or publish a political manifesto.

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11.07.2026 / 21:36

Vindication for the victims

Finding the culprits in the 2010 arson attack on a Marfin Bank branch in central Athens that killed three employees was the state’s obligation to the victims’ families, and to democracy itself.

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11.07.2026 / 19:18 KOSTIS KARPOZILOS

The ‘new Metapolitefsi’: From Samaras to Tsipras

The Greek concept of “Metapolitefsi,” as the period after the restoration of democracy in 1974 is called, is a puzzle. The public debate about whether it that historical cycle has ended or not recurs frequently, with the goalpost that demarcates the playing field constantly moving.

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10.07.2026 / 23:32

Protecting those who care

Violence against healthcare workers has become an increasingly common occurrence in hospitals across the country, and it is by no means confined to incidents involving members of Roma communities.

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10.07.2026 / 21:16

Theater of the insane

The murder of Vagia Nestora, whose home in Thessaloniki was firebombed in a politically motivated attack aimed at her daughter, a member of the New Democracy party, prompts feelings of sorrow and despair.

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09.07.2026 / 23:03

Substantive interventions

The management of apartment buildings has become a laborious and highly problematic process that often leads either to the courts or to major quarrels between tenants.

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09.07.2026 / 20:33

The dangers of the Trump-Erdogan ‘bromance’

If there is a message for Greece from the “bromance” between US President Donald Trump and Recep Tayyip Erdogan that emerged most resoundingly at the NATO summit in Ankara, it is that we are entering a period of possible upheavals.

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08.07.2026 / 23:18

Unequal advantage

Despite its significant environmental footprint, cruise tourism continues to enjoy a more favourable tax regime than the less polluting hotel-based tourism sector, even after the introduction of a passenger levy on cruise ship travelers. 

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