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The prevailing mood in Europe is troubled. Europe and the European Union are no strangers to crises, yet currently, the challenges are mounting both within the bloc and beyond its borders. When Europeans last elected members of the European Parliament in 2019, climate change dominated the debates. Additionally, the impact of Donald Trump’s presidency and […]

The more technology advances, the more we wish for long-lost simpler times.

Israel’s war with Hamas in Gaza is about to enter its ninth month. Russia’s war with Ukraine is now in its third year. And there are still no signs of normalization or appeasement on the horizon. Even worse, none of the warring parties appears to have a strategy for exiting crises which, with no prospect […]

if Europe is absent from people's lives; if it fails to address the cost of living crisis, immigration, unemployment; if it can't even forge a common position on the Middle East, then what exactly is it asking us to elect?

In an increasingly alarming world, the West can’t afford to rest for much longer.

The body has become emblematic of the EU’s dysfunction, but this year’s vote may actually matter.

Power, a Chimera, a multifaceted concept, is not static. It evolves, comprising disparate parts, each more imaginative, implausible, and dazzling than the last. The broader concept of power encompasses the ability to instigate or inhibit change. Within social and political philosophy, more precise definitions of power delineate the specific types of changes involved. Social power, […]

With just three weeks to go until the European elections, you might say we’re in the home straight. But to what? An electoral contest that has provoked nothing but yawns, and whose outcome everyone has rushed to predict with impatient over-confidence. The only event that actually looked and felt like an election rally was Edi […]

Needless to say, Mitsotakis’ visit to Ankara and his meeting with Erdoğan is not destined to change the course of history, just as it hasn’t stirred up waves of nationalist enthusiasm. But it is a necessary effort aimed at mutual understanding and coexistence. Made in the hopes that it will prove to be an honest […]

In the heated landscape of artificial intelligence (AI), where algorithms reign and the boundaries of innovation blur with uncertainty, a chorus of voices rises, echoing the call for regulation with complex features. These are not just any voices—they are the voices of the “AI elite”, the luminaries of our digital age, studying and analysing constantly, […]

The trial of those charged in relation to the deadly Mati fire of 2018 has come to an end. But it has failed to satisfy the public. To the extent that a trial relating to a dreadful tragedy has descended into a trial of a trial. It seems the Association of Judges and Prosecutors was […]

For many Christians around the world, Easter is long past, with the Easter Sunday celebration on 31 March 2024 a distant memory. For the Orthodox Christians, though, this year’s Easter is only now approaching, with Easter Sunday falling on 5 May 2024. Located as I am these days in Sparta, Greece, I am going through […]

China’s leader Xi Jinping kicks off a six-day trip to Europe on Sunday, his first visit to the continent over the past five years. But he will land in a very different Europe compared to 2019, when he travelled to Italy, Monaco, and France. The highlight of his visit back then was the endorsement of […]

‘Chaos theory suggests that in a deterministic system, if the equations describing behaviors are nonlinear, a tiny change in the initial conditions can lead to an unpredictable result.’ Social sciences are nonlinear. Predictability is out of the question when ‘episteme’ emanates from human-rooted action. It is a dangerous habit. Yet a future-looking policy, commanding accuracy, […]

For the first time since 1974, the judiciary has stepped in to ban a parliamentary party from taking part in an election. The ban applies to the Spartans party and didn’t come as a surprise—not even to those it angered. Because, for a decade now, and for the first time since the restoration of democracy […]

Few roles appeal to the Turkish president more than sitting in the front row on the big issues of international politics and having a say in the world’s future. After the humiliation of the lost local elections, which some pundits prematurely interpreted as the beginning of the end of the Erdogan era, the Turkish president […]

It’s strange. The world is in flames from the Middle East to Ukraine, and here in Europe we’ll be voting for the new European Parliament in a few weeks’ time, and yet we’re not really focused on the world or even on Europe. No, we’re only interested in the election candidates. And this when previous […]

We’re not in the home straight yet, but they’re not a dot on the horizon anymore. This June’s European elections will bring to a close the cycle of electoral showdowns that began a year ago, in May 2023. The polls record dissatisfaction with the New Democracy government, with the main chaffing point being the cost […]

A police force that does not protect those who seek its protection. An officer who doesn’t even watch over the pavement beside the police station he’s charged with guarding. A Rapid Response unit that isn’t rapid and whose responsiveness is questionable at best. Police officers who respond to a young girl’s cry for help in […]

Even the winners had not expected such a clear victory. There is absolutely no doubt: the big winners are the opposition forces led by the new and old mayor of Istanbul, Ekrem Imamoglu. The equally clear loser is President Erdogan. He had set all his forces in motion to win the municipal elections and failed […]