On the Thursday, March 20, 2025, episode, after the introduction with comments on current events and the headlines of newspapers, we spoke with Mr. Michalis Glezakos, Professor of Finance at the University of Piraeus, about the problems caused by Donald Trump’s trade war, whether Europe will be able to handle it, and if and how it could backfire on the American economy.
Immediately after, we discussed the 11th International Summer University on “Greek Language, Culture, and Media,” which will take place in Boston from May 24-29. The program and the participants were just announced. Our guest for this topic was Mrs. Nikoleta Tsitsanoudi-Mallidi, Professor of Linguistics and Greek Language, Dean of the School of Educational Sciences at the University of Ioannina, and founder and scientific director of the International Summer University “Greek Language, Culture, and Media.”
In the second hour of the show, the director of the documentary Sculpted Souls, Stavros Psyllakis, spoke to us about the film’s great success at the Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival, where it won three significant awards, and about the impressions it left on the audience who got to know the Swiss Philhellene, dentist of Hansen’s disease patients, Julien Grivel.
Journalist Kostas Kantouris, from Kochani in North Macedonia, where he is located, updated us on the developments in the case of the tragic fire at a club that killed 59 people and left others severely burned. The town is mourning the loss of young lives in the fire caused by fireworks.
Before closing the show, we connected with Buenos Aires, Argentina, and asked Mrs. Christina Tsardikou, president of the Greek cultural organization “Nostos,” to talk to us about the situation with pensioners who have taken to the streets in protest of their very low pensions, which have led them to extreme poverty.