Six Years On — And the World Has Caught Up With Our Vision Dear friends, Six years ago, on April 12th, 2020, in the midst of the pandemic, a small but determined group of citizens came together under the name Movimento Insieme — Together for Europe — with a conviction that many considered idealistic: that Europe's only future is a federal one. A few days after our sixth anniversary, I write to you with the quiet confidence of a movement that has lived to see the world validate its founding...
7 months ago • 3 min read
Dear friends,Today we are celebrating Europe Day 2025. This Friday marks indeed the 80th anniversary of glorious victory of the free people, the victory of humanity, over the monsters of nazism and fascism. Following that incredible, yet very painful, victory, our parents and our grandparents had to deal with a continent left in ruins. They worked hard and they worked together, building open, democratic societies which have been probably the best ever created by human beings. The last 15...
over 1 year ago • 1 min read
Dear friends, It's been a while that we haven't connected, I really hope that you are All doing well.Five years ago, during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, we all watched our European Union falter. Hospitals in Italy and Spain were overwhelmed. EU Member States closed borders and turned inward. The solidarity we hoped for was missing. The European Union didn’t rise to the challenge — and it wasn’t just about leadership. It was about structure. That’s why, on April 12, 2020, I...
over 1 year ago • 1 min read
Dear friends, Last Wednesday March 27th marked the loss of Michalis Charalambidis at the age of 73. Michalis was a great political figure, an outstanding intellectual and, by all measures, a truly remarkable human being. He also was an invaluable mentor and a very dear friend. I was blessed to know him in person since 1999, the year when he left PASOK [Greece's then dominant political party] to launch "Democratic Regional Union", a political movement which was ahead of its time. It is worth...
over 2 years ago • 3 min read
Dear friends, During the last few years and especially after the launch of ChatGPT and other similar applications there has been an ever-growing hype around Artificial Intelligence. While the progress is real and, I have to admit, quite impressive, it is not rare to observe pertinent discussions assigning mythical superpowers to these apps and to exaggerate either for the good or the bad impacts of AI. My view is that much as neither the generic cure of cancer nor the end of humanity is going...
over 2 years ago • 1 min read
Dear friends, This coming weekend in Athens, Saturday 21st and Sunday 22nd of October, marks the Wine & Art Festival 20023. Taking place at the Athens School of Fine Arts, this even will actually be the debut of Domaine Kastritis, an awesome organic winery founded by Stathis Kastritis - yes, that's my brother in law! The Kastriti family works as vine growers and winemakers for several generations. Since the early 2000s, Stathis introduced organic cultivation and winemaking, while he also...
about 3 years ago • 1 min read
Dear Friends, A couple of years ago I took the initiative of launching "Scale-up Greece", inspired by the amazing work on this domain by Professor Daniel Isenberg. The purpose was to show-case examples of scale-ups out of our small country and by doing so to debunk several myths around entrepreneurship, funding and innovation. In this context, four awesome companies have been presented already: Epignosis Insurance Market Workable Skroutz When the coronavirus pandemic broke-out, we decided to...
about 5 years ago • 1 min read
Αθήνα, 12 Ιουνίου 2021 | Athens, Greece, June 12th, 2021 | Athènes, Grèce, 12 juin 2021 The text in English can be found below | Le texte en français se trouve ci-dessous Ελλάδα 2071. To ορόσημο των 250 ετών από την επανάσταση. Αν ζω τότε, θα είμαι 94 ετών. Εσύ αγαπητέ αναγνώστη ίσως να είσαι λίγο μικρότερος ή λίγο μεγαλύτερος. Τι θέλουμε όμως να αφήσουμε πίσω μας, στα παιδιά και στα εγγόνια μας; Αυτό πρέπει να μας απασχολήσει τώρα. Το ραντεβού των 200 ετών χάθηκε. Όπως χάθηκαν νωρίτερα τα...
over 5 years ago • 1 min read
Dimitris Tsingos | Newsletter archive | Previous edition (Mar 25, 2021) Work for a Starttech Ventures scale-up: Epignosis | Yodeck | ...or for one of our scale-ups in the makingSupport the creation of the European Federal Union: Join now the Movimento Insieme for the European Federal Union Αθήνα, 9 Μαΐου 2021 | Athens, Greece, May 9th, 2021 | Athènes, Grèce, 9 mai 2021 Αγαπητοί φίλοι, dear friends, chers amis, Ελληνικά H ημέρα της Ευρώπης γιορτάζεται κάθε χρόνο στις 9 Μαΐου και μας θυμίζει...
over 5 years ago • 2 min read