Inauguration of the Greek-Bosnian Friendship Building

On Monday, July 23, Greek Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis, accompanied by Deputy Foreign Minister Evripidis Stylianidis, inaugurated in Sarajevo t...read more »

It has always been the dream of right-wing parties in Turkey to achieve the success and be the inheritor of Turkish Statesman and Prime Minister (1950–1...read more »

By Ben Andoni

Kosovo is waiting to become independent, so a dilemma, like a ball, is circulating: Will the Kosovar football players continue to play with the Albanian national team? The officials of th...read more »

By Andreas A. Papandreou

Amid growing concerns over climate change, the environment, energy security and diminishing petroleum reserves worldwide, the Mediterranean region is in a privileged geopolitic...read more »

By Antonis Kamaras

A new wave of money is crashing on the shores of Greek economic life, originating from hedge funds and private equity investors. Fears are being raised that the leadership of the cou...read more »

By Antonios V. Nicolaidis

Since its creation, the United Nations has struggled to evolve into the institution it once was deemed fit to be, or an intermediary among sovereign nation-states. In fact, th...read more »

By Maria Katechi

It was during the last Portuguese presidency in 2000 that the Lisbon Strategy was adopted. European Union leaders defined the framework upon which each and every member state should wo...read more »

International and energy security specialist Theodore Tsakiris has written one of the most meticulously researched and authoritative reports regarding the geopolitics of oil in the gr...read more »

By Ahmet Evin

As Turkey approaches parliamentary elections, arguably one of the most significant contests of the past six decades, an atmosphere of calm is prevailing across the country, despite strong...read more »

It is often alleged that Turkey is simply ‘too big, too poor and culturally too different’ to become a member of the European Union. But it is debatable whether such a pers...read more »

OPINION POLLS: EUROBAROMETER AND OTHER STUDIES

In one of the first surveys carried out by the European Commission in 1976 in the nine member states of what was then the European Commu...read more »

Energy is without doubt among the thorniest issues in Russian-Western relations. Disparate interpretations of the term ‘energy security,’ as well as a failure to di...read more »

When, during her short visit to Athens back in March 2006, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice declared Washington’s opposition to the potential utilization of the IG...read more »

At the June European Summit, the German EU presidency clinched a political agreement for a detailed mandate to launch an Intergovernmental Conference (IGC), which will finalize the text of a new Treat...read more »

Compiled by Dimitris Pappas

This section of the magazine hosts articles with business news and activities from the wider region.

By  Gazmend Kaplani

Sunday evening in Istanbul. I am passing the time until the hour of the appointment I have to go to. In the lobby of the Germir Palace, the hotel where I am staying (a very cha...read more »

By Nikos Moraitis

While Dionysis Savvopoulos may have composed and sang years ago ‘This is the Balkans; this is not a joke,’ he was however referring rather to the geopolitical position of ...read more »

By Panayiotis Panagopoulos

Now the opening up of the Eastern European countries to the West also has a cinematographic aspect. The eastern side of Europe is embracing the Western way of life more and m...read more »

By Ali Osman Egilmez

This summer in this part of the Mediterranean, two countries are exchanging their most talented performers. In Turkey and Greece, the neighboring countries’ concert halls and...read more »

By Ghiota Myrtsiotes

Seven years ago, 19-year-old Mikel Kalemi, a sophomore in the Drama Department of the Academy of Arts in Tirana, attempted to clandestinely cross the Greek-Albanian border after se...read more »

This section of the magazine provides information and news about think tanks that operate in the wider region.