After 11 years, three bailouts, untold suffering and heavy sacrifices by the Greek people, Greece is still under a regime of enhanced surveillance by the European institutions.
Greek-Turkish relations are not moving forward. The prime minister may have started his administration believing that progress could be made, but today the impasse is obvious and no light can be seen at the end of the tunnel.
The Covid-19 pandemic has shown the benefits of complementarity between monetary and fiscal policies at times of crisis. The simultaneous monetary and fiscal loosening helped to shore up the economy against the impact of the pandemic.
Having gone through a series of crises, Greece needs two things: first of all, a government that carries out reforms which will make the country more attractive for investment.
Can Alkis Kambanos, who was killed by soccer hooligans last week, play the role Pavlos Fyssas (who was killed by a member of neo-Nazi Golden Dawn) did in eliminating a criminal organization?
The new head of the Bundesbank, Joachim Nagel, made clear in his first interview that he would maintain the German central bank’s tradition of supporting tight monetary policy at the European Central Bank.
Pledges by the country’s leftist SYRIZA opposition to increase the number of yearly university admissions and double the number of professors appointed at state university institutions smack of cheap populism.
The new phase of the Ukraine crisis is evolving in a changing world. The modernization of Russian armed forces and the reorientation of US foreign policy toward the Indo-Pacific have intensified a long-pre-existing feud.
Aiming to promote legal and orderly migration as a counterweight to illegal immigration, we have reached an agreement with Bangladesh and opened a round of talks with Pakistan that will conclude in the same form.
The economy is at a very critical stage of recovery after the hit it took from the pandemic. It is doubly harmful to cultivate, vaguely and through leaks, expectations of benefits and tax cuts.
The visit by French President Emmanuel Macron to Moscow and the long and substantial talks with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin to defuse the Ukrainian crisis were both imaginative and risky.
We have a state that usually manages to function when the sun is shining and there is good weather, but not when it’s too hot, too dry, too windy, too snowy or too wet.
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