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China’s Footprint in Southeast Europe: Constructing the "Balkan Silk Road"
Agoralenders such as the EBRD and European Investment Bank as well as Russia. The three contributions are based... Source: Author’s compilation based on publically available documents and interviews with country... included infrastructure investments. Primarily project-based on the transport sector, the partnership
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One unicorn does not a Silicon Valley make: positive news on startup front also highlights limitations
EconomyFeaturesthe acquisition of a minority stake in cloud-based payments pioneer Viva Wallet by JP Morgan... of startups currently active in Greece is around 1,500. Based on this, Greece has around 14 startups... from friends and family, grants and other sources. Although funding for Greece-based startups has
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Study highlights overregulation and bad law-making in recent years
Society, commissioned by Athens-based think tank Dianeosis and published last month, sought to evaluate the effects... with grammatical errors, bad Greek or the blatant misuse of legal terminology. Overregulation, a feature
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Greece bolsters ties with UAE, building on opposition to Turkish actions
PoliticsForeign Policyas well as the empowerment of the defence cooperation based on an agreement signed in 2007. The Greek... Mediterranean and the South Caucasus region, describing it as a “blatant” violation of international
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Re-opening plans hang in balance due to unrelenting virus
PoliticsGreek Politicsto the spread of Covid-19. However, the announcement was based on limited data and did not definitively prove... as a blatant attempt to ingratiate itself with their owners. Despite SYRIZA’s protestations, New Democracy
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FM heads to Ankara for rare talks as Greece and Turkey court Libya
PoliticsForeign Policyact based on the European acquis. The trip to Ankara is taking place just a few days after head... Ministry noted last Saturday. “The choice of time of the occurrence of such non-existent and blatant
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Resignations over EU subsidy scandal deliver new blow to PM, further tarnishing image
PoliticsGreek Politicsmuch money has been distributed based on fraudulent claims but Tassos Telloglou, the investigative... the theory that this was an organised and fairly blatant corruption scheme, that forced the hands
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IMF examines where programme went wrong, what lessons were learnt
EconomyProgrammeFollowing the International Monetary Fund’s executive board meeting on Monday, the Washington-based... targeted a fiscal adjustment of 7 percent of GDP that would be mostly based on sustainable... and the failure of the Greek political system to deliver a broad-based pro-reform coalition created
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Is Greece on track to decouple from fossil gas?
Agorain the electricity production mix; moreover, with a remarkable 21.4 TWh in 2023, for the first time RES-based... largest lignite cities (Kozani, Ptolemaida, Florina, Amyndeo and Megalopolis). Based on the calls... that Greece is already on track to achieve an electricity production mix based entirely on RES
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Can the Green Transition be just?
Agorafar to reduce these sectors’ carbon footprint have not yielded the anticipated results. Based... the substantial resources allocated to them from the auctioning of emission allowances through the ETS-1. Based... Regulation. Based on the latter, temporary direct income support measures to address the increase
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