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US view on Greece proving constant amid change
Alexis Tsipras’s recent visit to the USA was something of a curate’s egg, ranging between high diplomacy and acute embarrassment. It would be wrong, though, to dismiss its implications.
Contributor: Nick Malkoutzis
Categories: Politics (411), Economy (346), Greece (524)
Labour market reforms did exactly what they were supposed to
Greece had a current account deficit of 15 percent of GDP in 2008, when the crisis struck. Unit labour costs since euro adoption had increased by 35 percent, compared to less than 20 percent in the euro area.
Contributor: Yiannis Mouzakis
Categories: Economy (346), Greece (524)
Wolfgang at the door
“Nothing will be quite the same again,” Greek Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos wrote on the European Union flag given to his German counterpart Wolfgang Schaeuble on October 9, as the latter attended his 113th and last Eurogroup.
Contributor: Nick Malkoutzis
Categories: Europe (293), Economy (346), Greece (524)
An unsettling role-reversal for Greece and Germany
At times over the last few years, German politicians have dreaded the choices that Greek voters were about to make. It is now the turn of Greek politicians to agonise over the choice that German voters have made.
Contributor: Nick Malkoutzis
Categories: Europe (293), Politics (411), Greece (524)
China's footprint in Southeast Europe: Constructing the "Balkan Silk Road"
President Xi Jinping’s “Belt and Road Initiative” (BRI) was officially launched in 2013. It is a Eurasian grand strategy that seeks to expand and secure maritime routes and road infrastructure networks for China from Asia across Africa to the Middle East and Europe
Contributor: Jens Bastian
Categories: Europe (293), Economy (346), Greece (524)