Nikos Konstandaras

Nikos Konstandaras, a columnist for Kathimerini, joins Thanos Davelis to break down how Greece, given the position it finds itself in today, has a unique window of opportunity to push key reforms forward that would go a long way toward tackling some of the key challenges the country is up against, particularly the demographic challenge. 

Fresh out of university and with vague career prospects, I was not a little awed as I crossed the threshold of the historic Greek newspaper's old headquarters in downtown Athens on my first day at Kathimerini English Edition after weeks of making myself a nuisance to the editor in chief, Nikos Konstandaras, asking for a chance.

To the editor,

My name is Michael Schwandt and I live in Durham NC, USA. I am writing in response to Nikos Konstandaras' article, "The difficult homecoming of Greece's lost children," in Kathimerini on April 2, 2023.

Twenty years ago I was summoned to the office of Kathimerini's owner Aristides Alafouzos. In his usual decisive and succinct manner he gave board member Martha Dertili and myself a very clear mandate: "I want Kathimerini to be a truly international newspaper, we are citizens of the world and you should never forget that.

The march of extremist Islamist fighters on Baghdad and the tearing down of border posts between Iraq and Syria surprise us with their speed. We are not used to seeing such changes on the map, as the years after World War II were devoted to avoiding any change of borders.

Seventy years ago, 156,000 Allied soldiers began their battle for a beachhead on the coast of Normandy, setting off a sequence of events which, along with the advance of Soviet forces in the east, would result in the defeat of German forces which occupied Europe from France to Greece. June 6, 1944, is one of the most important days in the history of our blood-soaked continent.

By Nikos Konstandaras

By Nikos Konstandaras

By Nikos Konstandaras

To our readers

The Hellenic Distribution Agency, the principal distributor of foreign newspapers and magazines in Greece for many years, filed for bankruptcy on May 13. Since then, Kathimerini has relied on its own resources to distribute the International New York Times-Kathimerini English Edition.