First and foremost I would like to thank you All for your warm responses to my earlier message on the disqualification of the ‘Green and Purple’ coalition from the recent Greek parliamentary election on May 21st. I am very happy to see that this communication channel works and I feel…

As you All know I am a passionate believer in Europe’s federal integration. I work for the creation of the European Federal Union, having envisioned a superpower of peace, liberty, equality and culture. Much as I have decided not to join any European political party, so that I stay faithful…

This Orthodox Easter Sunday, April 16th 2023, was marked by the passing of Ms. Efrosyni ‘Frósso’ Perganta at the age of 99. Ms. Perganta, who lived all her life at the beautiful village of Distomo on the foothills of Mount Parnassus, near the ancient city of Delphi in central Greece…

Greece today celebrates the anniversary of the 1821 Revolution against the Ottoman Empire, which eventually led to the creation of the modern Greek State (internationally know as the “Greek war of independence”). The current situation in our small county, however, is quite worrying. The image below summarizes it perfectly: I…

A healthy working environment is all about leadership. Interestingly, most startups which manage to grow and succeed actually do so thanks to their culture and attractive working environment. Unfortunately, however, both founders and investors seem to fail to acknowledge that reality and, in a way resembling shooting their own feet…

Il faut le dire: Je suis accro. Heureusement pas aux drogues mais aux téléphones portables et surtout aux leurs applications. Il y a quelques années que je m’en suis rendu compte. Au début j’ai décidé de quitter les réseaux sociaux, comme Facebook, Twitter, Instagram et LinkedIn. Mais cela ne suffisait…

Dear members and friends of the Movimento Insieme for the European Federal Union, Back in April 2020, shocked by the apparent lack of solidarity among the EU Members States during the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic, we dreamed of “Movimento Insieme” as a wide, pan-European peoples movement for the creation…

I recently took the initiative to launch the Work-in-Greece program as well as a pertinent group on meetup. This initiative comes as a natural next step from the success of the Scale-up Greece meetup. The mission of the latter is to promote scale-up entrepreneurship by demonstrating successful scale-ups out of…

In several European countries (and not only in European ones) there’s a heated debate on the so-called ‘brain-drain’ phenomenon. It has been observed that during the years of the financial crisis hundreds of thousands of highly-skilled young professionals (medical doctors, engineers, computer scientists and others) left their county in the…