Nikos Konstandaras is a columnist at Kathimerini English Edition. He focuses on themes such as climate change, government and politics, and regional interest, while also covering general assignment news and world affairs, particularly in relation to the United States, Canada, and Latin America. His insights and analyses have been featured in various notable publications, reflecting his deep engagement with culture and society.
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In our time, human life is greatly devalued.
As we ponder how each country can strengthen its economy, its politics, and its defenses in an ever more unpredictable world, as the leaders of the two largest Christian churches unite in their calls for human dignity to be protected, we ought to worry about technology.
After meeting with Donald Trump in Beijing Thursday, President Xi Jinping declared, “We both believe that the China-US relationship is the most important bilateral relationship in the world. We must make it work and never mess it up. Both China and the United States stand to gain from cooperation and lose from confrontation. Our two countries should be partners rather than rivals.” The White House described the meeting as “good,” while Trump told Xi he is “a great leader and China is a great country,” adding that he “deeply respects President Xi and the Chinese people.”
It would be most useful if, in the nascent tension between Greece and Turkey, the European Union avoided its usual mistake: trying not to get involved, and then, when it does act, doing so in a way that exacerbates the problem rather than solving it. We know that it is much to ask of member-states and European institutions that they overturn their deeply rooted practice of letting problems fester until they find themselves before a crisis, in which case they will have to do more than what they tried to avoid.
It seems that even if the fighting in the Middle East and Ukraine were to stop today, even if we were sure that US-China relations will not get
Whereas in Greece the lack of a strong opposition has led to political ferment and the birth of political parties, in neighboring Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan is making sure that the opposite happens, removing – by court decision – the leadership of the powerful major opposition party.
Voters who desire a party that will punish all those that they consider responsible for the ills of this country have been given new “Hope” – the name of the party founded by Maria Karystianou, the mother of one of the victims of the Tempe train tragedy. The reservoir of anger is large, and there are many reasons that it stays filled, so this party, too, will draw from it. But voters have a number of options by which to turn their anger, indignation and hope into a political current – the political vehicles serving Kyriakos Velopoulos, Zoe Konstantopoulou, Yanis Varoufakis, Aphrodite Latinopoulou, and others.
Donald Trump's never-ending accumulation of “get out of jail” cards as president of the United States and as an individual, brings to mind Tiberius, the second Roman emperor, as described by the historian Suetonius in “The Lives of the Caesars.”
In our turbulent time it is alarming that new parties are born and the political debate is held in an ideological framework which has no relation with the challenges that we must face. The symbols, signs, slogans and references to old movements and myths may provide a sense of continuity and hope for a return to simpler times, but this is like our dressing up as heroes of old to wage battle with current problems.
As if outdated ideological divisions were not enough, our politics are plagued also by frivolous behavior which rule out cooperation and make it more difficult to shape effective policies.
