Alexis Papachelas

Earlier this year Kathimerini organized a three-day conference looking back at the 50 years since the restoration of democracy in Greece in 1974, or the Metapolitefsi.

Former conservative prime minister Antonis Samaras believes that the country's lenders pulled the plug on his government in late 2014 so as to prevent Greece from exiting the bailout agreements before Alexis Tsipras and SYRIZA came to power.

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis (l), Kathimerini Executive Editor Alexis Papachelas (center) and the head of the National Bank Cultural Foundation (MIET), Kostas Kostis, take part in a discussion during the "50 Years of the Metapolitefsi" conference in Athens on Thursday.

The current crisis in the Middle East - from Gaza to the Red Sea - is threatening the stability of Egypt, one of the most important countries in the Arab world.

US Congressman John Sarbanes was presented with the Leader award in Washington, DC on Monday, granted each year to an outstanding member of the Greek-American diaspora.

US Congressman John Sarbanes was presented with the annual "Leader" award in Washington, DC on Monday, given each year to an outstanding member of the Greek-American diaspora.

Early last year, when eastern Turkey was devastated by powerful earthquakes, neighbors and eternal rivals Greece and Turkey entered, not for the first time in their recent existence, a period of detente. Whether this reconciliation will be durable and fruitful will be largely determined this year.

Stephen Dunbar-Johnson, president of NYT International, addresses an event on Monday in Piraeus celebrating the 25th anniversary of the collaboration between Kathimerini and the New York Times.

Henry Kissinger, the former US secretary of state and national security adviser who died on November 29, was a "red flag" for the Greeks and the diaspora, as he was viewed as largely responsible for the attitude that the United States and NATO adopted toward Turkey following its invasion of Cyprus.

The 16th Gastronomos Quality Awards event of Kathimerini's Gastronomos magazine expressed gratitude to Greeks harnessing their creative powers in the country's border regions. These producers and processors of fine Greek food were singled out and honored for 2023 by the magazine's team.