When in 2003 the planners of the Nabucco pipeline named their 31 bcm/y project after the famous Verdi opera, they might not have been able to imagine that almost ten years latter they would still be “singing” in the Southern Gas Corridor “operetta”. In reality many of them would feel relieved that they are still […]
Posted by blogs@ELIAMEP
May 1, 2012
This article seeks to add to the growing voice calling for an urgent return to the EU’s core values: democracy, prosperity, progress (e.g. Gabriel, 2011; Mallias, 2012a,b). Intra-EU processes of negotiation today, especially in the sphere of the economy, are going against the Union’s ethos, practice and mission. Seeing the peripheral member states changing governments, […]
Posted by Pavlos Efthymiou
February 23, 2012
A few days ago the Iranian Foreign Ministry called the Ambassador of Greece in Tehran, along with five other counterparts of the EU countries, to notify him that Tehran intends to change its oil supply conditions to Athens. Two hours later the Iranian Oil Ministry announced that it does not intend to cut off oil […]
Posted by Evangelos Venetis
February 8, 2012
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 particularly the options available to Greece and its partners to overcome it[1]. The book begins with a pre-emptive strike against one […]
Posted by Pavlos Efthymiou
July 15, 2011
Thomas Friedman, the father of Neoliberalism, was an intelligent man without doubt. Already in 1982 he had realized that in order for the citizens of any given state to be persuaded to give up on the welfare provisions they were enjoying, a kind of an emergency situation had to be created: “a crisis –real or […]
Posted by Oikonomakis Leonidas
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