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Posts on September 2017
China’s Footprint in Southeast Europe: Constructing the "Balkan Silk Road"
This is the second of three articles in which the author will analyze China’s investment, lending and infrastructure initiatives in Southeast Europe for Macropolis.
Contributor: Jens Bastian
Categories: Europe (276), Economy (312)
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 (276), Politics (364), Greece (466)
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 (276), Economy (312), Greece (466)
The flag of permanent defeat
There was something impressive about Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras’s appearance at the Thessaloniki International Fair (TIF) last weekend. It didn’t relate to the number of companies exhibiting at the Expo or that China was the honoured country again
Contributor: Nick Malkoutzis
Categories: Politics (364), Economy (312), Greece (466)
About to soar? Greece's economy still needs to be handled with care
Last Friday’s release of the second quarter Greek GDP figures by ELSTAT confirmed that the economy has recorded two consecutive quarters of growth. The last time Greece started a year with two quarters of growth was in 2006.
Contributor: Yiannis Mouzakis
Categories: Economy (312), Greece (466)