Questions raised over academic appointments
The Ministry of Education will come up with what it hopes to be an effective system to handle personnel appointments at universities that avoids pre-decided outcomes favoring specific candidates.
‘We must strive for unity of the churches’
On Friday, November 28, the 1,700th anniversary of the First Ecumenical Council is bringing together Pope Leo XIV and Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew in Nicaea (present-day Iznik).
As clouds threaten ceremony, Greece prepares a backup flame for the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics
Organizers in Ancient Olympia held an emergency rehearsal Monday to light the flame for the 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Games, seizing on a brief break in Greece’s stormy weather.
Athens Academy elects professor Iatrides as corresponding member
The Academy of Athens, Greece’s leading intellectual institution, has elected Professor John O. Iatrides, a US-based political scientist, as a corresponding member among Greek scholars abroad. He was appointed to the Academy’s Third Section of Ethical and Social Sciences in the field of Political Science and International Politics.
EU anti-fraud office probes tech bid for favoritism
A team from OLAF, the European Union’s anti-fraud office, has visited Greece in recent days, asking for data from the General Secretariat of Information Systems.
Alexis Tsipras revisits his past and signals political return with ‘Ithaki’
The memoirs of former Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, titled Ithaca, are released on Monday. According to Gutenberg, the publishing house, it is already a publishing success; the fourth edition began before sales even started.
The forgotten resistance of Himare
Recently, a book arrived in my hands, sent by my good colleague and friend Robert Goro, an ethnic Greek from the Himare region of southern Albania.