E-democracy

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.

Citizens are democracy's first and last line of defense. Institutions are shaped to anticipate problems and prevent deadlock, to regulate the state's functions, to protect the weak and check the powerful. In the end, though, it is citizens who determine the country's course, based on their interests - or, rather, on what they perceive their interests to be at that time.

It's less than three months to go from the next edition of the Athens Democracy Forum, taking place in the Greek capital from September 27-29, 2023.

Politicians and policymakers, academics and activists, journalists and youth will be challenged to advance and discuss concrete solutions to address the most pressing issues of our time.

The US Embassy in Greece and the Delphi Economic Forum, in collaboration with Art in Embassies, on Tuesday announced the Partners in Democracy initiative, scheduled for May 24 and 25 in Athens.

Gov.gr, the state's digital portal, is now available in the English language.

The translation of the site facilitates the access of non-Greek-speaking residents to 1,547 online government services.

Gov.gr hosts every digital service that ministries, organizations, authorities and regional and municipal councils have put online.

The bar is and needs to be kept high when it comes to matters of democracy and how our democracy functions. Every move that relates to the electoral process, to the workings of the justice system and to other such weighty affairs needs to be executed cautiously, within institutional confines and with confidence.

State asset utilization fund TAIPED is about to launch its second attempt in the last eight years to sell a 624,000 sq.m. property in an excellent location near Porto Heli in the eastern Peloponnese.

This is a piece of public land at Ververonda, which has the potential to host a small airport.

Ljubljana – Slovenia ranks 21st among 193 countries in the latest United Nations e-government survey 2022. The country gained two spots compared to 2020, showing progress in all components of the survey, the Public Administration Ministry said in a press release on Monday.

According to the 2021 Democracy Index, our country ranks 53rd in terms of a democratic society, 10 points ahead of Serbia and 20 points ahead of North Macedonia.

Ljubljana – Senior Slovenian officials condemned the storming on Wednesday of the US Capitol building, with President Borut Pahor describing it as an “attack on the symbol of US democracy” and Prime Minister Janez Janša expressing hope that the US democracy would overcome the crisis.