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Wolfango Piccoli, co-founder of risk analysis company Teneo, joins Thanos Davelis to discuss the market reaction to the Greek elections, the message the election results sent to investors, the reforms that a new government in Greece will need to focus on, and more.

Dora Antoniou, Kathimerini's political editor, joins Thanos Davelis to break down what went wrong for SYRIZA and Alexis Tsipras in Sunday's elections, what this defeat means for the party looking ahead, and whether this is now PASOK and Nikos Androulakis' big chance to reclaim the center-left. 

Businesses moving "from doomsday to new optimism" was in the focus of an international conference taking organised by the IEDC Bled - School of Management and Bloomberg Adria.

Managers and government representatives from some 25 countries addressed the most pressing global challenges in business, finance and politics.

Expert Michael Rubin, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and former Pentagon official, joins Thanos Davelis to argue that with Turkish President Erdogan's re-election essentially in the bag, it is time for the US and the EU to prepare for a rocky road ahead, recalibrating their policies to meet this reality.

From the depths of the financial crisis last decade, Greece's economy is now one of the fastest-growing ones in Europe's common-currency zone.

Prof. Gabriel Haritos joins Thanos Davelis to discuss the significance of President Nikos Christodoulides' recent trip to Israel and message it sends about the importance of this bilateral relationship, and look at the issues discussed - from energy to the question of Israeli investments and tourists in the occupied northern part of Cyprus.

And indeed, the way in which the killer boy planned the mass massacre at the elementary school "Vladislav Ribnikar" leads one to think that he is an above-average intelligent person: he made a floor plan of the school, a list of peers who present "primary targets", Molotov cocktails...

An animal rights group that specializes in protecting Greece's donkeys has hailed the decision by an Athens prosecutor to slap a fine of 30,000 euros on a man who allowed his donkey to die of shock and exposure.

A topic that has gained particular attention over the last years, as was highlighted at the Delphi Economic Forum at the end of April, is Greece's effort to become a global education hub.

Tugba Tanyeri Erdemir, the coordinator of ADL's Task Force on Middle East Minorities and a non-resident scholar at the Middle East Institute, joins Thanos Davelis to look at religious freedom conditions in Turkey and highlight the key issues raised in USCIRF's 2023 Annual Report report, which recommended that Turkey be placed on the Special Watch List for engaging in or tolerating severe violat