On the occasion of the conclusion of the American presidential elections ELIAMEP organised a lecture with Mr. Rick Ridder, President and Co-founder, RBI Strategy and Research, Denver on “The changes brought by the 2008 US presidential elections”. Watch the interview with Mr. Rick Ridder.
Ms. Eka Tkeshelasvili, Foreign Minister of Georgia, provided insight on the impact of the crisis on the course of her country’s foreign policy, in a lecture organized by ELIAMEP. Watch the interview with Ms. Eka Tkeshelasvili.
In my post of October 31, 2008 I listed a number of possible key political effects of the current financial-economic crisis: (1) relative decline of U.S. hegemonic dominance; (2) redesign of global governance in favour of emerging economic and political powers; (3) increased pressure on Europeans to rise to the challenge of global affairs; (4) [...]
As the G-20 Meeting in Washington proved, it is finally becoming apparent that our world has crossed a point of no return. Invited by the departing Bush Administration prodded by the peripatetic President of France, all understood that no immediate and lasting decisions could be made in this exploratory meeting because of the absence of [...]
In a lecture organized by ELIAMEP, HRH Prince el Hassan bin Talal dilated upon the potentialities of cooperation and development among countries pertaining to the broader Mediterranean area. Watch the interview with HRH Prince El Hassan Bin Talal.
Senator Barack Obama’s decisive victory will forever stand witness to America’s founding principles of opportunity for all, and will symbolize the achievement of Martin Luther King’s dream. Americans clearly decided to take a gamble on Obama’s youth, sense of purpose and his extremely effective description of a future that continues to fulfill the American Dream. [...]
The former German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer has publicly speculated that the effects of the current financial crisis will be similar to the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. This time, however, the consequences would not affect the East but rather the West. In times of severe crisis, like the one we are undisputedly [...]
In my post of October 21st, I argued that labour market reforms have been the weakest link in the process of European economic reform and that, regardless of the Lisbon strategy, national governemnts have mostly followed the route of convenience leading to proliferation of low-wage jobs and lower labour productivity. Government labour market policies have [...]
