To ζήτημα της ψήφου των αποδήμων, θα έπρεπε να έχει κλείσει οριστικά, εξασφαλίζοντας στους Έλληνες της δισποράς τα αυτονόητά τους δικαιώματα, Παρόλα αυτά, επανέρχεται στην επικαιρότητα. Η μικροκομματική του διαχείρηση από την πλευρά του ΣΥΡΙΖΑ προκαλεί προβληματισμό για την ίδια τη λειτουργία του πολιτικού μας συστήματος· υπονομεύει το θεσμικό του υπόβαθρο και αναδεικνύει τον κομματικό του χαρακτήρα.

On the continent, most consider the British decision to leave a tragic mistake. Even so, the Brexiteers’ core contention—that the European Economic Community they joined in 1973 has grown far beyond an international union of sovereign states and into something far more ambitious and intrusive—is hard to deny.

In the heady aftermath of the Cold War, American policymakers pronounced one of the fundamental concepts of geopolitics obsolete. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice described a new world “in which great power is defined not by spheres of influence . . . or the strong imposing their will on the weak.” Secretary of State Hillary Clinton declared that “the United States does not recognize spheres of influence.”

On March 18, the European Central Bank announced that it will buy an additional 750 billion euros’ worth of European corporate and government bonds this year. That means the ECB will spend a total of 1.1 trillion euros on eurozone bonds over the next nine months, the most it has ever spent on assets in so short a period of time.

In Hungary, the prime minister can now rule by decree. In Britain, ministers have what a critic called “eye-watering” power to detain people and close borders.