‘Greek misery’, ‘Hellenic precipice’ or unwelcome comparisons with Dubai and Iceland, who both cannot repay their debts. Truly, the headlines about Greece since the start of the New Year could hardly be more telling. They are similar to a Greek tragedy. However, the final act has yet to be completed in Athens.
The macro and microeconomic [...]
Will Greece follow Dubai World into financial turmoil? Is putting matters in this alarmist tone fear mongering or the expression of a conspiracy theory? The flip-side of this question is the no less reassuring issue how realistic the expectation is that eurozone membership will once again protect Greece from itself and/or from speculative attack?
Whoever sought [...]
ELIAMEP, in light of China emerging as a global geopolitical and economic power, organized a bilateral open meeting with the Shanghai Institute for International Studies (SIIS) on “China-EU Relations”.
Read the interview with Professor Ye Jiang, Director of European Studies of the SIIS.
ELIAMEP: China-EU High-Level Economic and Trade Dialogue is an important platform aimed at promoting [...]
Corruption is regressive. It affects foremost the marginalized sectors of society and its impact is felt more by the poor and the citizens of countries where resources are scarce. It serves as a subversive mechanism for democracy and popular participation, breeding cynicism, distrust and apathy while undermining the legitimacy of state institutions.
If all of the [...]
The debates surrounding the bill organizing the social and political inclusion of the children of migrants born and educated in Greece sounds all too familiar to a French observer. Indeed, they seem to repeat an attempt at reformulating the politics of citizenship that was made in France at the turn of the 1980’s and the [...]
The Brussels-based “International Crisis Group” (ICG) issued a new report on the so-called “name dispute” between Athens and Skopje[1]. Its alleged aim is to provide a set of proposals for the two parties to reach an agreement, thus clearing the way for “the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia” (FYROM) to join NATO and eventually the [...]
My mother is Italian, my father is Dutch. Purely due to the origins of my ‘blood’, I was given an Italian and a Dutch passport. I was born and raised, however, in Belgium. There, I always grew up with the idea that I could, once I had turned 18, if I wanted to, become a [...]
“we offer hospitality and accept with infinite love and sympathy the others that come here, the foreigners…. but they had better not interfere with our domestic issues”. This comment was made by the MP presiding the Greek parliament on Friday the 12th of December; on the day that a much contested bill article for the [...]
