... Revolution of 1821. Katerina Sakellaropoulou, President, Hellenic Republic, and Kyriakos Mitsotakis, Prime Minister, Hellenic Republic, addressed the participants.
The event focused on the following topics: geopolitics and international security, global economy, the future of Europe, climate change and sustainable development, social change and the future of the state, new technologies, as well as structural reforms and the transition to sustainable development in Greece. Andrey Kortunov, RIAC Director General, spoke on the prospects for the development of relations between the European Union and Russia.
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Germany, after 1990-s managed to avoid the mistake a lot of western states made. Berlin sustained its productivity and continues with its industrial dynamic. It was rational to take advantage of the European Economic Union and to boost its exports. Greece’s economy is depended on tourism and agriculture. The economic rationality drives us to the following idea: Germany, France and the other eurozone states insist on the concept that Greece should pay back the massive loans that it took. After that, Greece ...
Kvashnin Yuri (Ph.D in History)
(Head, European Union Studies Department, IMEMO RAN, RIAC Expert)
Today the Russian-Greek economic relations are affected by a triple crisis: the ongoing crisis in Greece, the crisis in Russian–EU relations and Russia's economic hardships.
As for the first one, at the beginning of this year Greece's economic prospects looked bright. 2013 was the first year when Greece achieved primary surplus ...
... Academic Advisor based in Seattle, USA)
Ever since April, and a much publicized re-entry in the capital markets to secure a loan, the Greek PM Mr. Samaras has taken no breaks from advertising his government's supposed "success" in leading Greece "out of her crisis." With the exception of Mr. Samaras's narrow circle of advisers, everyone knows that this claim is bogus. In October, Mr. Samaras took another bold, but utterly inane, step in announcing that Greece was about ...
