“Take Your Time” with Prokopis Agelopoulos | 16 Jan. 2025

On Thursday’s show, January 16, 2025, after the introduction to current events and the front-page headlines, we spoke with Mr. Giorgos Kouvidis, president of the organization “SOS-Traffic Crimes,” following the serious accident involving a 22-year-old victim in Crete. The young man lost his life when a high-powered car collided head-on with his, driven by a drunk 45-year-old, who had previously been checked and found to have consumed a large amount of alcohol. Despite this, police officers allowed him to leave, handing the keys to his partner. Immediately afterward, the president of INKA, Giorgos Lechouritis, talked to us about the decision of ferry companies to raise ticket prices by up to 20%, the consequences this will have on domestic tourism, and how consumers should deal with it.

In the second hour, after the international news with Ivana Djordjevic, we met one of the Greeks from the diaspora who moved to Australia in 2016 during the financial crisis. Ms. Katerina Priftaki is a lawyer who worked in the Legal Department of the National Bank of Greece in Piraeus, served as the director and head of the board at the General Hospital of Molai from 2011 to 2013, and now lives in Melbourne. She continues her legal career as a member of an Australian law firm while also serving as a Special Advisor to a company facilitating connections between Greeks in the diaspora and services and professionals in Greece through a digital platform.

In the final interview of the show, we connected with Thessaloniki, where educator and representative of the Friends of Youth Press Group, Mr. Giorgos Daskalakis, talked to us about a significant exhibition: the 1st Nationwide Student Newspaper Exhibition titled “Student Echoes,” currently taking place at the Central Municipal Library of Thessaloniki. To close the conversation, four students—young reporters from the 28th Primary School of Thessaloniki—read their pieces from a project conducted in Crete as part of a thematic student press initiative on the earthquake of September 27, 2021.