ARIANA FERENTINOU

Poll shows no Corona panic among Greeks ARIANA FERENTINOU

Poll shows no Corona panic among Greeks

We are all in it. 185 countries are victims of the so called “invisible deadly enemy”. We have been all, more or less, asked to do the minimum: stay at home and wash our hands. Which, in theory, we have been doing since our mothers first asked us to do so.

April 16 2020
Reassessing public health services amid COVID-19 ARIANA FERENTINOU

Reassessing public health services amid COVID-19

“From one moment to the next, you feel that you may not be embracing those you love again, that you may not have the opportunity to apologize for cutting off a relation for no reason, or that you may not see your favorite small Aegean church again with the Greek flag waving next to it. An inexplicable anxiety that you will never see things you have never actually noticed. It’s very strange how cinematic and romantic Vasilissis Sofias Avenue’s retro street lights can seem from the back window of an ambulance,” wrote the managing editor of the eminent center-right Greek newspaper Kathimerini.

April 09 2020
Reassessing the future ARIANA FERENTINOU

Reassessing the future

The coronavirus pandemic that entered our life so dramatically, and which seems determined to stay for an indefinite period of time, has not only taken away many lives, it has also swept away our certainties, our perceptions, our plans and our basic freedoms – in short, all things thought to be a given for several decades.

March 27 2020
Pink is the color ARIANA FERENTINOU

Pink is the color

I know it is now becoming an old story, but I do not want to put it aside yet; I do not want to move to the present, terrible adventure we are about to go through.

March 19 2020
Athens: A serious debate on ties with Turkey ARIANA FERENTINOU

Athens: A serious debate on ties with Turkey

Talking to his parliamentary group last Wednesday President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan came at some point to the recent agreement of Turkey with Libya. He praised it by saying that following this agreement “our country has gradually started to change the balances.” He accused the EU of “finding duties for itself in the Mediterranean when it does not have any authority to do so” and then claimed that the status that Turkey has declared in the Mediterranean “is becoming gradually accepted by the countries involved in the issue, particularly Greece.”

February 21 2020
Anniversary of a crisis ARIANA FERENTINOU

Anniversary of a crisis

For the last 24 years, Jan. 31 has been a day of remembrance, negative anticipation, reflection or, for some, even fear for the worst.

February 08 2020
Adept diplomacy needed ARIANA FERENTINOU

Adept diplomacy needed

It came as no surprise. An opinion poll published this week in Greece showed that more than half of Greeks (54.6 percent) are “very much” or afraid “enough” of a “hot incident” with Turkey. Nothing unusual about that.

January 24 2020
Mitsotakis checkmates Syriza with new presidential candidate ARIANA FERENTINOU

Mitsotakis checkmates Syriza with new presidential candidate

Political communication, political marketing, political PR; all these terms have now entered the world of politics and have increasingly become an integral part of today’s political discourse.

January 19 2020
Greek PM in chaotic Oval Office ARIANA FERENTINOU

Greek PM in chaotic Oval Office

The official visit of the Greek prime minister to the United States and his meeting with President Donald Trump at the Oval Office this week did not make everybody happy in Greece

January 11 2020