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Turkey and Israel: No hard feelings anymore

March 30, 2013

Turkey is a robust country, a pivotal player in the entire region which encompasses the Middle East, the Southeastern Mediterranean basin, and the Balkans. It always had a special role in these three areas due to the long-held historical, political, cultural, and economic ties and relations. Lately, Turkey has achieved to unleash a fundamental geopolitical… » read more

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Conflict, English, eurocrisis, Geopolitics, Global Europe, Global Politics, Middle East, US Policy

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After all, is it worth staying in Eurozone?

March 26, 2013

The Cyprus bailout deadlock came to remind us that the Eurozone establishment is something we had really over-appreciated 11 years ago. The idea behind the single currency structure was to decrease instability, increase growth and smooth structural deficiencies between member-states. Nowadays, the conclusion is that Eurozone is a forum of European member-states with no decisional… » read more

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Conflict, English, EU integration, euro, eurocrisis, member states

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Possible escalation between EU and Russia?

March 20, 2013

Cyprus comes to take the lion’s share in the process of fiercely undermining austerity politics in Eurozone. After Greece, Italy, Spain, and Portugal, Cyprus seems to shake and unveil the deep heterogeneity inside the single monetary union. There are many questions with pending answers that our interest should be focused on.

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Conflict, English, EU institutions, EU integration, euro, eurocrisis, Eurozone, Geopolitics, member states

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Comment: Gazprom in Greece

March 13, 2013

On Monday March,12 the Greek PM Mr. Samaras had official meeting with the Vice President of Gazprom, Mr. Alexei Miller, with major issue the firm expression of the company for the participation in the contest for the privatization of the Greek Natural Gas Company. The contest runs until April, 12 and there are growing expectations… » read more

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English, Geopolitics, Greek

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The Public Insurance System in Greece: The complete disaster

March 8, 2013

The local services of the Public Insurance System of Greece -known as IKA– have been suffocated during the last weeks by thousands of people waiting for hours in the queues in order to submit their complaints, mostly for payment delays and renewals of health booklets. Old people, but also youngsters and middle-aged employees or unemployed… » read more

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Conflict, English, eurocrisis, Greek, Grexit, member states

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Dimitris Rapidis

Politics | Communication | Strategic Analysis

Dimitris is thoroughly involved in the analysis of the Greek financial crisis in Eurozone, the political and geopolitical shifts globally, with emphasis in EU and MENA region. His analyses and interviews have been featured in national, European and regional broadcasting networks, media, and journals, such as Bloomberg, Euronews, Associated Press, Al Jazeera, El Pais, Publico, El Mundo, La Razon, Sputnik, Russia Today, Newsweek, Financier Worldwide, Die Welt, Handelsblatt, BBC, Nouvel Observateur, Anadolu Agency, Hurriyet, among others.

He has studied political science and international affairs at the Universities of Athens and Geneva. Dimitris is founding member of the Research Committee on Geopolitics (RC-41) of the International Political Science Association, and the Model of the European Union of the Galatasary University. He has been a guest speaker at numerous international academic and governmental conferences, summer schools and symposia in Europe.

Languages: Greek, English, French, Spanish.


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