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Congress urged to block sale of US F-16 jets to Turkey
In wake of Capitol Hill attack, HALC says road back to unity ‘not short’
Erdogan travels to Greece, forgets to pack reality
The Turkish president’s visit to Greece is predictably controversial By Georgia Logothetis, Managing Director President Recep Tayyip Erdogan visited Greece this week — the first Turkish president to do so in 65 years — and brought with him the baggage of a politician whose…
The importance of the Greek Exclusive Economic Zone
Dr. Theodore C. Kariotis, Member of the Delegation of Greece to the United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea In 1967, Malta’s Ambassador to the United Nations, Arvid Pardo, called for an international conference to devise a new…
4 in 10 children in Greece at risk of poverty or social exclusion
By Georgia Logothetis, Managing Director, HALC On Universal Children’s Day, Eurostat has released some grim statistics on the state of children in Greece. Some four in 10 children in Greece (37.5%) are at risk of poverty or social exclusion (Eurostat…
Pollution kills 1 in 12 Greeks. Time for a massive clean up act.
Around the world, millions of deaths are attributed to air, water, soil and workplace pollution. By Georgia Logothetis, Managing Director A recent study finds that 8% of deaths in Greece each year may be attributed to pollution, a grim statistic…
EU court rules in favor of equality, opens door to more Greek women serving as police officers
It’s about time. By Georgia Logothetis, Managing Director, HALC The average Greek man is about 5′ 9″ or 5′ 10″. The average Greek woman is about 5′ 5″. The requirement to enter the Greek police forces is about 5′ 7″ — a…
Think Greece is a tiny, broken country that doesn’t matter? Think again.
A small country with big responsibilities on the world stage By Georgia Logothetis, Managing Director, HALC By the numbers, Greece shouldn’t matter so much. Its geographic area is smaller than that of Alabama. More than half of individual American states…
Why everyone should read the classics
By Georgia Logothetis, Managing Director, HALC The teaching of the classics was long considered the core of a good education. Reading the greats of ancient Greece and Rome — the poetry, history and literature — was key to both an understanding of history and…