I’m reading “Flights,” by Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk, which is an ode to travel.

The already tense relationship between Greece and Turkey has been strained further in the wake of Ankara’s leaking of a supposedly secret meeting between Greek, Turkish and German officials following Turkey’s controversial decision to convert Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia into a mosque and amid an increasingly aggressive Turkish stance in the East Mediterranean. 

The same people that we chose to trust in the past few months are now assuring us that it is now safe for kids to return to school. 

All the road signs in the mountain villages in the regional unit of Rethymno on the island of Crete are riddled with bullet holes.

Impose strict containment measures while there’s still time. The phrase sums up the advice to Greece from Marco De Ponte, general secretary of ActionAid Italy. In an interview with Kathimerini, the nongovernmental organization official casts light on the reasons for Italy’s devastating death toll from the novel coronavirus.

Germany’s rejection of a Eurobond for bankrolling the fight against the spreading coronavirus pandemic is “not at all categorical,” the country’s ambassador to Athens, Ernst Reichel, told Kathimerini in a written interview, leaving some hope of consensus in the future.

There is a social class dimension to the way the new coronavirus is affecting the population, and by that of course I do not mean the indirect revanchism of MEP Dimitris Papadimoulis, of the main opposition SYRIZA party, who almost celebrated the fact that the outbreak in our country started from a woman who returned from a trip to Milan.

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and German Chancellor Angela Merkel agreed during talks on Monday in Berlin that they would wait for the next European Union leaders’ summit on March 26-27 to evaluate Ankara’s behavior and ascertain whether there is any good will on its part for a solution to the migration crisis. 

The four-page pamphlet issued last month by the Church of Greece’s Holy Synod, ostensibly aimed at informing the faithful of its position on cremation, is shocking.

Alexis Tsipras, Greece’s leftist opposition leader, has accused the New Democracy government of “inertia and appeasement” toward Turkey. The term “appeasement” is particularly loaded as it was the name given to Britain’s policy in the 1930s of allowing Hitler to expand German territory unchecked. It insinuates a sellout of national interests, or at least a passive demeanor.

The presentation of Eleni Varvitsioti and Viktoria Dendrinou’s book “The Last Bluff” (published by Papadopoulos) took place on Monday evening in a packed amphitheater at the Benaki Museum annex on Pireos Street, south of central Athens.