
Angelos Konstantinidis: Meritocracy is still our national joke
Opinion by Angelos Konstantinidis.

Τα δημοσιεύματα της περιόδου, ομαδοποιημένα ανά ημέρα.

Ten years after his death, Giannis D. Salapatas remembers his uncle, a teacher and church cantor who made his home on Leros.

Greek Solution politician Michail Karampatis issued a strongly worded statement criticising the government over Leros Hospital, tourism, migration and travel costs.

The history of European integration is full of "snapshots" where Brussels bureaucracy and the micropolitical calculations of nation states clashed with genuine humanitarian action. But few cases encapsulate this tragic irony as vividly as the February 2016 initiative betweenSouth Aegean Regionand herRegional Government of Valencia (Generalitat Valenciana). It was the moment when two European regions decided to bypass state indifference and practice autonomous humanitarian diplomacy, attempting to transfer 1,000 refugees from the trying islands of the Dodecanese directly to Spain.

Leros has a long pottery tradition shaped by the island's clay, water and kilns, producing vessels used in homes and traded across neighbouring islands.

They have appeared for about a year nowserious problemson its asphaltrunwayat the airport of Leros, without any substantial rehabilitation intervention having been carried out to date.