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Pavlos Efthymiou: ‘Can One Save the Titanic? From the Memorandum, back to Growth Again’ – Book Review*
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Nikos Christodoulakis, Professor of Economic Analysis at the Athens University of Economics and Business (AUEB), reviews, in this second edition of “Can One Save the Titanic”, the preeminent debates surrounding the Eurozone crisis and particularl...
Bledar Feta: The Janus face of the Albanian politics
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Albania has just entered its 100th year of independence. But does the internal political scene offer enough reasons for celebration? The picture is mixed. On the one hand the country has experienced almost two years of bifurcation and polarization of...
Evangelos Venetis: The EU oil ban and the regime change in Iran
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The above question has been looming over relations between Iran and the EU since the 1979 Islamic Revolution. The EU foreign policy, which has been actually a desideratum, has kept ever since a cautiously neutral stance toward the Islamic Republic. I...
Apostolis Karabairis: The North Kosovo Serbs’ persistent dissent
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The Kosovo conundrum has made it again into the top news stories in the region and beyond, due to the strained atmosphere and tensions taking place in the North since last summer. In July 2011, while the EU-brokered dialogue between Belgrade and Pris...
Apostolis Karabairis: The North Kosovo Serbs’ persistent dissent
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The Kosovo conundrum has made it again into the top news stories in the region and beyond, due to the strained atmosphere and tensions taking place in the North since last summer. In July 2011, while the EU-brokered dialogue between Belgrade and Pris...
Pavlos Efthymiou: The Diary of the Crisis – Book Review*
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Leading Greek journalist Pavlos Tsimas (Mega, Ta Nea) narrates in the first person, his experiences and reflections on the global economic crisis drawing from his interview material, images and memories. ‘The diary’ is a story of bubbles, irrespo...
Pavlos Efthymiou: The Diary of the Crisis – Book Review*
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Leading Greek journalist Pavlos Tsimas (Mega, Ta Nea) narrates in the first person, his experiences and reflections on the global economic crisis drawing from his interview material, images and memories. ‘The diary’ is a story of bubbles, irrespo...
Harris Mylonas and Emirhan Yorulmazlar: Regional multilateralism – The next paradigm in global affairs*
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The Cold War and the early post-Cold War periods were relatively easy to define and comprehend. The first was roughly the struggle between two superpowers forming a bipolar system where almost every state had to choose a side. What followed was a per...
Dan Smith: The UN Peacebuilding Fund – four years on
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The decision to set up the UN Peacebuilding Commission, Peacebuilding Support Office and Peacebuilding Fund was taken in September 2005 and bit by bit the new architecture was ready for business in 2006 and into 2007. I have just finished four years...
Evangelos Venetis: History Repeating – British Foreign Policy on Iran and the Mossadeq Crisis
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You may well know that a major feature of history is that it never stops being repeated. Recent British attempts to impose an EU embargo on Iranian oil imports are reminiscent of the Mossadeq crisis (1951-1953). At the time due to Iran’s unilateral...
Evangelos Venetis: The British Garden of Tehran
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In the suburb of Qulhak in northern Tehran there is a beautiful garden covering almost two big blocks full of poplar trees. It is the garden of the British Embassy in Tehran. The site came under British ownership after WW2 and ever since it has been...
Evangelos Venetis: The British Garden of Tehran
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In the suburb of Qulhak in northern Tehran there is a beautiful garden covering almost two big blocks full of poplar trees. It is the garden of the British Embassy in Tehran. The site came under British ownership after WW2 and ever since it has been...
Evangelos Venetis – Syria in Crisis: Towards a Civil War?
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After nine months Syria’s ongoing conflict between the pro-Assad and anti-Assad forces has reached a stall-mate. No side seems to be willing to compromise; the revolutionaries remain firm in their principles and goal to overthrow Assad, despite the...
Evangelos Venetis – Syria in Crisis: Towards a Civil War?
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After nine months Syria’s ongoing conflict between the pro-Assad and anti-Assad forces has reached a stall-mate. No side seems to be willing to compromise; the revolutionaries remain firm in their principles and goal to overthrow Assad, despite the...
Evangelos Venetis – The Middle East in Turmoil: the Rivalry between Reformists and Conservatives
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Contemporary political developments in the Arab world are crucial for the future of the region and the EU seems to be deeply concerned. The unprecedented crisis various Arab governments face as well as the way that protests are unfolded and spread at...
Evangelos Venetis – The Middle East in Turmoil: the Rivalry between Reformists and Conservatives
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Contemporary political developments in the Arab world are crucial for the future of the region and the EU seems to be deeply concerned. The unprecedented crisis various Arab governments face as well as the way that protests are unfolded and spread at...
Konstantinos Makris: Research – Re-use plastic water containers
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Increasing consumption of water packaged in plastic containers in Cypriot and other Mediterranean countries continues to compete with tap water for the most popular water source of potable use, cooking, and beverage preparations (cold/hot coffee, tea...
Model on the forms of capital accumulation in the Turkish economy
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In today’s Turkish economic reality various forms of accumulated and constantly increasing capital coexist, which should firstly be analysed theoretically and concisely, so that they become absolutely comprehensible in terms of their significanc...
Ομιλία Προέδρου Ευρωπαϊκού Συμβουλίου, Herman Van Rompuy, στη 1η ημερίδα-συνάντηση Σερβίας-Ευρωπαϊκής Ένωσης, 9 Σεπτεμβρίου 2011
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Διαβάστε την ομιλία του Προέδρου του Ευρωπαϊκού Συμβουλίου, Herman Van Rompuy, στη 1η ημερίδα-συνάντηση Σερβίας-Ευρωπαϊκής Ένωσης, 9 Σεπτεμβρίου...
Δήλωση ΥΕ/ΕΕ, Catherine Ashton για το ταξίδι της στη Μέση Ανατολή, 14 Σεπτεμβρίου 2011
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Διαβάστε τη δήλωση της Ύπατης Εκπροσώπου για τις Εξωτερικές Σχέσεις και την Πολιτική Ασφαλείας της Ευρωπαϊκής Ένωσης, και Αντιπροέδρου...
