Thanos

Thanos Petrelis shared his joy on social media about his daughter Agapi’s success in the Panhellenic exams.

Professor Gonda Van Steen, the Koraes Chair at the Centre for Hellenic Studies and Department of Classics at King's College London and a member of the academic committee for the Alexandria Cavafy House, joins Thanos Davelis to explore why making Cavafy widely accessible - from his Alexandria home to the Cavafy Archive in Athens - is important, and look at why his work still inspires us today.

With the quintessential Greek summer increasingly out of reach for many in Greece as they are priced out of certain locations, many young people end up taking on seasonal work only to be able to see a beach - something unthinkable for previous generations. Iliana Magra, a journalist with Kathimerini, joins Thanos Davelis to look into this side effect of over-tourism. 

Professor Ioannis Armakolas, Senior Research Fellow and Head of the South-East Europe Program at ELIAMEP, joins Thanos Davelis to look into the progress that has been made in Greek-Albanian relations - with a focus on the people to people ties - amid lingering challenges facing the two countries.

Greece is moving toward a six-day workweek, with regulations coming into effect on July 1 that make this possible for certain industries. The government hopes this move, which comes as other Western countries and companies are considering shorter office hours, will help deal with a labor shortage and, among other things, fight black market labor.

Endy Zemenides, the executive director of the Hellenic American Leadership Council, joins Thanos Davelis to break down Cypriot Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos' trip to Washington DC and the importance of the strategic dialogue that was announced, and look into Hezbollah's latest threats against Cyprus.

Nikos Efstathiou, an Athens based journalist and author, joins Thanos Davelis to discuss the first major heat wave in Greece this summer, and look at how this is impacting everything from daily life in Athens to tourism. 

As we approach 50 years since Turkey's invasion and occupation of Cyprus, Michael Rubin, the director of policy analysis at the Middle East Forum and a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, joins Thanos Davelis to look at how Turkey's continued occupation of the northern part of Cyprus presents a grave and growing threat to US and European security.

Following decades of worry, have US policymakers finally overcome their fear of "losing Turkey", coming to terms with a Turkey that is neither friend nor foe?

Nektaria Stamouli, the deputy editor in chief of Kathimerini's English Edition and Politico's Eastern Mediterranean correspondent, joins Thanos Davelis to break down the results of the European elections in Greece and their broader impact on the ruling New Democracy, the fight for dominance of the center left between SYRIZA and PASOK, and the gains registered by the far right.