Opinions

The 19th edition of The Global Risks Report was published in the wake of the World Economic Forum in Davos and brings together the ten most serious short-term global risks in order of severity. At the top were misinformation and disinformation. These two concepts are sure to be a concern in 2024, a bumper year […]

Action for Democracy President discusses how today's challenges pose a threat to democratic institutions

The discussion about conflicts is becoming a recurrent feature in today’s world. Almost two years have passed since the beginning of the war in Ukraine. Hostilities continue and there is no prospect of an agreement to bring them to an end. The situation in the Middle East looks similarly grim. The October 2023 terrorist attack […]

"This is an opportunity for us to shine a spotlight on the strong partnership between both countries, to highlight areas in which we’d like to focus in the year to come, and to unify efforts across the whole-of-government", Ambassador Tsunis comments

The US elections will definitely be one of the key events of 2024. Will Trump be the next president of the USA? And what makes the citizens of a democratic country choose to vote for a populist leader who has already proven just how dangerous he is? We had a lengthy discussion about what it means to be a Democrat or a Republican in this day and age with the US managing editor of the Financial Times.

If education reflects a country’s cultural level, I severely doubt ours scrapes a pass. The depressing images of thugs in hoods with clubs, the layabouts passing themselves off as a poor man’s “student movement”, the mindless sound-bites regurgitated ad nauseam for the cameras by various “militant squatters” all bear witness to a mess that can […]

Over the years, stable Turkish influence structures have taken root in Germany, encompassing numerous Turkish associations, mosques, and prayer houses—some estimated at around three thousand

What would Attica look like if rivers, streams and ponds were visible throughout the city?

Since their introduction in 2019, 5G networks have impacted many facets of our lives, improving the ways we connect, interact, socialize, do business and collect data, with many applications that range from healthcare and entertainment to the automobile sector, manufacturing and environmental monitoring, to mention but a few. This has been due to their increased […]

The fact that Greece uses mass SLAPP lawsuits (strategic lawsuits against public participation) against journalists and media should be a topic of discussion at the European level and serve as a wake-up call. It is a clear indicator of problems with the workings of the Rule of Law in the country. And that’s because the […]

Hungary and Viktor Orban have now become the center of attention.

A pivotal question about the future of democracy: is the democratic status of a state confined to its staging free and fair elections?

All manner of predictions, both utopian or dystopian, have been made about artificial intelligence, but the exponential nature of the technology means that none have hit the mark

The climate crisis is now testing both the resilience of democracy and the cohesion of society through its impact on food security, migration, water scarcity, biodiversity, natural disasters and social inequalities

Fifty years ago, Mark Granovetter, a young Harvard Ph.D. student who would later become a professor at Stanford University, wrote an article entitled “The strength of weak ties”. The article was hugely influential (72,000 citations) and was the founding text of an entire school of thought: Network Theory. According to Granovetter, while strong ties (i.e. […]

History makes it clear that India was far less terra incognita for Greece that other Asian countries

Instability has emerged as a new norm in the international system in recent years.

The presidential and parliamentary elections held in Taiwan on 13 January 2024 were closely watched globally, as their potential implications could reverberate far beyond the island’s shores. Two oft-quoted arguments relate to the fact that Taiwan is home to a huge chunk of the world’s cutting-edge semiconductors, and the volume of maritime traffic through the […]

The well-known adage that it is difficult to make predictions, especially about the future, is even more true of 2024.

2023 was a good year for relations between the two countries. And 2024 is expected to be even better