PRESIDENT KATERINA SAKELLAROPOULOU

If yesterday’s conference serves as a starting point for ending parallel monologues in the judiciary, in a period when public trust in institutions has been severely shaken, it is exceptionally important.

President Katerina Sakellaropoulou decision to invite women who are battling with or have defeated breast cancer to the presidential mansion was extraordinary, and her reference to Fofi Gennimata touching.

The president rightly reminded us that “the institutional counterweights [to populism] are the foundations of the rule of law, and they cannot be subjected to fleeting majorities.

A massive number of mourners gathered outside of Athens Cathedral today to bid farewell to the beloved composer Mikis Theodorakis, who died at age 96 and left a deep imprint on the Greek soul and national consciousness, at the funeral.

The government has not implemented any of the university security measures that have been discussed such as the establishment of a campus police force or the mandatory display of an ID in order to enter university campuses and buildings.

'Our country, Europe, and the entire planet is in the midst of an unprecedented crisis the consequences of which right now we are unable to predict or even imagine,' said President Katerina Sakellaropoulou.