How much authoritarianism can a society take when they can have a measure of comparison with the free world? In Russia, citizens are reacting to Vladimir Putin’s military conscription by voicing their dissent or by queuing to exit the country. In Iran, the “guardians of morality” are shock testing their theocracy’s resilience against the resistance of brave women aspiring for…
Putin’s brutal invasion of Ukraine has sparked a new introspection in the West. A number of commentators, most of them writing from the US and the UK, have come up with their latest scapegoat: Germany’s to blame, they say, with its decades-long policy of appeasing Russia. Really? People love to dislike Germany. Often for good reasons. Successive Merkel administrations were…
It’s been one crisis after another for the last 20 years. Greece has been at the center of some, and battered by the tidal-wave aftershocks of others. The 21st century began with the attack on the Twin Towers. The West awoke to the asymmetric threat of radical Islam, a threat it would find itself confronting at home (UK, Spain, France)…
TURKEY ON THE AGENDA DRIVING THE DAY: European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen is joining European Council chief Charles Michel on the last leg of his trip around the EU’s neighborhood, with a joint mission seeking to achieve better relations with Turkey. Watching them most closely will be Greece and Cyprus, as always — but there’s more at stake…
George Pagoulatos has contributed to the Collective Volume ‘FEPS Progressive Yearbook 2021′ of the Foundation for European Progressive Studies with a chapter on “Prospects of a eurozone recovery.” In the Volume, among many prominent contributors, you may find chapters by László Andor, Andrew Watt, Maria João Rodrigues and Xavier Prats Monné. You may find all the contributions to the Yearbook…