Tο έγκυρο περιοδικό Politico με εκτενές ρεπορτάζ και συνέντευξη του Γιώργου Παγουλάτου παρουσιάζει τη νέα έκθεση του ΕΛΙΑΜΕΠ για την Τουρκία. Ο γνωστός δημοσιογράφος του Politico Florian Eder χαρακτηρίζει μάλιστα την έκθεση “ψύχραιμη” και δεν διστάζει να πει πως “θα ήταν ένα χρήσιμο εργαλείο για τους Προέδρους της ΕΕ γιατί περιλαμβάνει κάθε τομέα όπου η ΕΕ, οι ΗΠΑ, το ΝΑΤΟ…
George Pagoulatos comments on the obstacles facing the process of European enlargement, the pitfalls that the Union must avoid this time, and the strategy it should follow with the new candidate member-states. Click to read the comment.
The EU needs to urgently formulate a response to US and Chinese protectionism. US decarbonization legislation poses a threat of deindustrialization for Europe. Europe needs a plan to support EU green, industrial and technological competitiveness, while protecting European cohesion and the single market, and promoting European strategic autonomy. Relaxing EU state aid rules must be an inevitable first component of…
Greece is finally growing again. But it has been arguably the eurozone’s greatest failure. Catapulted into a debt crisis with a 15 per cent government spending deficit in 2009, the country suffered eight years of economic contraction. Unemployment is still 23 per cent, youth unemployment 45 per cent. Greece’s “Great Depression” has been as deep as that of the…
As the familiar saga unfolds of another seemingly never-ending review and a looming deadline of debt payments (€7.4bn due in July), it is tempting to view the Greek crisis with a mix of déjà vu, exhaustion and resignation. Add anger and despair, since these are the prevalent emotions in Greek society as well – for good reasons, to be…