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The talks come amid heightened Greek-Turkish tensions in the Aegean, with an exponential increase in violations of Greek national airspace, and Ankara's return to the fold.

The new security terrain that is emerging in Europe can be exploited in order to manage Greek-Turkish disputes in a realistic manner.

Ukraine has an opportunity to leapfrog a generation of technologies – to green its energy system, modernise its transportation and communications infrastructure.

In the last 24 hours, 123 COVID-19 patients have been admitted to hospital (a 7.8 percentage point daily rise). The seven-day average daily number of admissions is 120.

The policing of universities is an unpleasant and complex but necessary measure in order to protect fundamental rights, such as learning, dialogue, and the dissemination of ideas.

A total rethinking of budgetary projections and planning is needed, with a targeted nexus of measures, such as the costed electricity bill rebates announced by the government.

'Any way you cut it, this is a critical confluence of events for Europe, as a series of givens has now been cast in doubt by the war, but it also presents an opportunity.'

The government dragged its feet on its controversial but necessary university police for plan, and then it was blocked in the court system. Now, it could even be abandoned.

The problem with the social media is not limits on free speech, but rather the exploitation of that freedom by fanatics and bigots who disseminate hate speech.

Energy costs have doubled and in some cases tripled for households and businesses since a year ago and the situation has literally battered a huge percentage of Greek households.

No one has been punished for the death of three employees due to the torching of a bank branch in the centre of Athens [during a huge anti-bailout memorandum protest march οn 5 May, 2010].

One must limit the harmful effects of a bad criminal law and restore a proper balance between sentences, correctional objectives, and punishing heinous crimes without a shred of leniency.

In the last 24 hours, 155 COVID-19 patients have been admitted to hospital (a 15.67 percent daily increase). For the last seven days, the daily average number of admissions is 162.

Russia's theory of diminished sovereignty for Ukraine is linked to its refusal to recognise an autocephalous Church, as it does with all other national autocephalous Churches.

Greek political parties and numerous LGBTQ, human rights, and other organisations at the time of the heinous killing issued statements condemning vigilantism.

The gradual embargo on Russian oil that apparently will be included in the new package of EU sanctions represents an additional, serious trial for the 27 member-states.

It is easy to shout, “We are all Ukrainians!” when we see the corpses in bombed cities and the tragically desperate faces of refugees. What is difficult is to prove it in practice.

The government must make every effort to bolster the tourist product, whether that be through measures to reduce energy costs or by funnelling EU Recovery Fund monies.

'I made it clear that this behaviour by a NATO member-state is simply unacceptable, the Greek PM said today of his telephone contact with NATO’s Secretary General.

Long before his 24 February invasion of Ukraine, Vladimir Putin’s in his two decades in power made enormous headway in his bid to expand Russian influence in Greece.

The current conflagration and the extension of the front into Moldavia demonstrate that wars are always unpredictable and ineluctably lead to escalation.

After all, it is always the detail that magnifies drama. It is difficult for one to imagine alive a dead person with whom one is not acquainted.

The democratic reflexes of the French people defeated Macron's very alluring opponent, who exploited economic difficulties and geopolitical turbulence in an effort to win votes.

Ankara maintains an enormous landing force, with a strong amphibian component, the Aegean Army, on the entire coast of Anatolia, extremely close to Greek Aegean islands.

Macron’s debate strategy appears to have worked, as 59 percent of voters found him more convincing than Lepen, but that does not mean that the battle has been decided.

An effective, comprehensive social safety net is the only way to prevent the marginalisation of the poor and a return to the period in which populism had prevailed.

EODY has recorded 130 reinfections in the last 24 hours, while there have been an estimated 120,590 reinfections during the pandemic (3.6 percent of the total number of infections).

Party conventions should be an opportunity for a political restart and for changes that update political platforms that will be presented to the electorate.

The COVID-19 pandemic is not over. The virus is still here and the currently prevalent variant has been described as the most transmissible to date, with a surge of infections.

The Ukrainians have not only have they put up a fierce resistance to the Russian invaders, but they also forced Moscow to retreat from the area of Kyiv and to revise its overall strategy.

Party conventions can serve as a springboard for fashioning substantial, concrete policies, without the populism and demagoguery that bedevilled the country in the past.

Since the start of the pandemic, EODY has recorded 3.2mn infections (49 percent men), with a daily increase of 0.2 percentage points.