September 7 will be a crash test for both the Greek state and society at large.
If Greeks more than anyone else in the world believe that faith in God is required to be moral and we also come first in the Western world in the importance we attach to religion, then why do we refuse to do what is necessary to contain the pandemic?
Rarely does a piece of investigative journalism cause such a stir and such a large number of diverse comments.
The number of incidents that appear to be related to mental health issues is on the rise across the world. Recently, a 59-year-old bus driver died in Bayonne in southwest France after he was attacked by passengers who refused to wear face masks.
The simpler and clearer the steps to protect ourselves from the novel coronavirus look, the more complicated and socially inapplicable they prove to be.
It might seem out of place, if not downright utopian, to discuss a change of course for the country in the middle of a major crisis in the economy and the tourism sector.
For all those beach bars across Greece that have been violating the ban on overcrowding, with their patrons reveling in a carefree, holiday mood, the imposition of controls to prevent the spread of the coronavirus is proving to be extremely difficult and the imposition of penalties and fines is so complicated that it ends up almost impossible to do so.
The Education Ministry is bringing back the custom of giving students a grade for conduct that will go on their final-year transcripts and graduation certificates.
The violent entry of the coronavirus into our lives has challenged economic realities, the pace of life and much we took for granted. To be more precise, it did not just challenge them, but has accelerated their change.
Noise, confusion and conflict had shaped our reality before the coronavirus pandemic struck. We inhaled and exhaled fanaticism while the public debate was dedicated entirely to proving who was “bad” and who was to blame.
Are the crowds of young people who have been congregating recently in public squares in Athens and other parts of the country politically guided acts of the usual kind or spontaneous gatherings?
A few days ago, Kathimerini extended a different kind of invitation to readers. It asked them to share a memory from life before the coronavirus for which they were nostalgic.
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis ended a recent speech in Parliament by acknowledging the need brought up by opposition leaders for medium- and long-term measures to support people who work in the arts.
If all goes well, the Greek government should be able to start lifting restrictions on commercial activity and public movement aimed at containing the spread of the coronavirus next month.
Doctors and nurses have been deified. They are the recipients of applause, donations, sincere emotion and gratitude, all around the planet. Our lives are in their hands. We knew this anyway, but it took a pandemic for everyone around the world to realize, at the same time, what is truly important and valuable.
A doctor in France recently made the most haunting comment, saying that the coronavirus is “extinguishing the elderly like candles.”
Unfortunately, it’s not enough to be “doing well” on our own during the pandemic. The word itself, pandemic, suggests that, apart from the scale of the virus’ spread and the incalculable danger, there is a pressing need for European Union powers to come together.
Speaking to Kathimerini in an interview two weeks ago, shipowner Thanasis Laskaridis sent a clear and sincere message, calling on affluent Greeks to do more to help charities.
There was something so refreshingly familiar about the appearance on Friday of the new president of Greece, Katerina Sakellaropoulou.
Could Omonia reclaim its status as the heart of Athens? But the heart of which Athens? Of the real Athens? Of the imaginary Athens? Or of the desirable Athens? Mayor Kostas Bakoyannis, who has been credited with the effort to revamp Omonia Square, had every reason to be satisfied with Thursday’s rehearsal, as it were.