By Kostas Ifantis
The EU’s 50th birthday gives us Europeans the opportunity to look back on this unprecedented success story. It is time to recognize that the achievements of the past 50 years are a monumental demonstration of what political will and determination can delive...read more »

By Stavros Kourtalis & George Zoris
On March 26, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon submitted the Comprehensive Proposal for the Kosovo Status Settlement, drawn up by Martti Ahtisaari, the UN’s special envoy on Kosovo’s future status, to the Security Coun...read more »

The implementation of the Hellenic Plan for the Economic Reconstruction of the Balkans (HiPERB) is moving ahead dynamically, following the approval by the Hellenic Parliament of the extension of the program for another five years, as well as its revitalization aiming at a more ef...read more »

By Panos Leivadas
Recent years have witnessed the strategy of extroversion being adopted by an increasing number of states and other entities of the public and private sectors around the world. Greece, empowered by its recent accomplishments of global caliber and determined to sei...read more »

By Dr Dimitris Keridis
Next Steps in Forging a Euro-Atlantic Strategy for the Wider Black Sea¹ (German Marshall Fund, 2006) is a fascinating collection of essays by Dr Ronald D. Asmus, executive director of the Transatlantic Center of the GMF and a well-known and much respected an...read more »

On January 15, 2007, a new political group called Identity, Tradition, Sovereignty (ITS) was formed in the European Parliament. Composed of 20 members of the European Parliament, ITS represents not only 23 million Europeans, but also populism and ultra-nationalism as expressed by...read more »

Sinan Ulgen interviewed by Vassiliki Nicoloulia
Sinan Ulgen, chairman of the Center for Economics and Foreign Policy Studies (EDAM) in Istanbul, one of the most significant think tanks of Turkey, a former career diplomat and a well-known and much respected analyst for EU affairs, ...read more »

By Dr Constantinos Filis
There is no doubt that Russia and Turkey are closer right now than they have been since the break-up of the USSR. Economic cooperation has been the vehicle for ongoing improvement in their relations since 2001. Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan s...read more »

By Dr Ioannis N. Grigoriadis
Although the number of democratic states has risen considerably in recent years, democracy has by no means dominated the sphere of world politics. This point is particularly valid in the Middle East. This region has remained the least affected by the w...read more »

The recent agreements between the Republic of Cyprus and Egypt and Lebanon regarding the delineation of their respective economic zones in order to proceed in examining whether the hydrocarbons beneath the Eastern Mediterranean exist in quantities economically viable for exploita...read more »

Compiled by Dimitris Pappas 

Joining trading forces

The Hellenic Exchanges (HELEX) group has already expressed its interest in buying 44 percent of Bulgarian Stock Exchange (BSE) shares. Earlier this year the president of the Athens Stock Exchange (ATHEX) and chief executive o...read more »

Brigadier General of the Greek Army Georgios Makridis interviewed by Katerina Anastasaki
Brigadier General Georgios Makridis was head of 27 Greek officers and NCOs who spent eight months in Kabul, Afghanistan, in a Peace Support Operation as members of the Southeastern Europe Brig...read more »

The level of gender equality in the Middle East remains today not only a matter of women’s emancipation in the region, but also a crucial step toward democracy and economic development, and the consolidation of social and political rights. ’The root of the problem lie...read more »

Rajko Grlic interviewed by Dimitra Ampela
Rajko Grlic, the eminent Croatian director who currently lives in the USA, not only decided to take the risk of making a satirical movie about the everyday life of the former Yugoslav army, but his film Border Post premiered with grea...read more »

By Katerina Anastasaki
Today, following the accession of Romania and Bulgaria, the European Union is home to nearly half a billion people from diverse ethnic, cultural and linguistic backgrounds. The linguistic patterns of European countries are complex ― shaped by history, ...read more »

Compiled by Alexandra Ioannidou
Common vocabulary and syntactic and morphological phenomena in the different Balkan languages have led to the formation and development of Balkan linguistics as an established field of studies. Balkan history, on the other hand, is more slippery and...read more »