UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY GREEK HISTORY AND CULTURE SEMINARS: WHY BYZANTIUM? THE CONTEMPORARY RELEVANCE Olympia Thea Nelson, a PhD candidate in the Department of Modern Greek & Byzantine Studies at the University of Sydney, will present a lecture entitled "Why Byzantium? The Contemporary Relevance," on Thursday 7 March, at 7:00 pm. Held at the Mezzanine Level of [...]
Balkans and Black Sea Forum: still talking of connectivity in an era of geopolitical upheaval It takes quite some courage to hold a conference on “Trading arteries and global supply chains at stake” at this point in time – that is, with the Gaza Strip-Israel conflagration three months on and the Houthi attacks increasingly inhibiting [...]
Changes to the Stability Pact bring cuts in public spending The representatives of the Euro area governments and the European Parliament concludes the final text of the revised fiscal rules, based on the set-up agreed in the Eurogroup, just before Christmas. Governments with excessive debt will have more time to reduce it and so will [...]
Of data protection and privacy in Greece – 2024 version Matters of privacy and of data protection have never been of high importance in Greek public debate nor of high relevance to the functioning of its political system. Truth be told, extensive lip service is paid to data protection as a significant value in our [...]
Presenting & discussing Nikos Garganas’ book Greece’s Sovereign Debt Crisis and its Economic Aftermath. Analysis & Lessons Quite interesting a discussion was held – on the 7th of February 2024 – between figures who played important roles in dealing with Greece’s debt crisis at the presentation of (former Governor of the Bank of Greece and [...]
Impending boom? The profitability of insurance companies was increased significantly in 2023. According to the Hellenic Association of Insurance Companies, in the period January-November 2023 the production of insurance premiums showed an increase of 8.7% compared to the same period of 2022, reaching 4.7 billion euros. Revenues on general coverage are the highest (increasing by [...]
The halt in greening European farming – and the Greek pat on the back The calculation was easy: throughout Europ/ the EU “27”, just over 2.2% of the population are farmers – and growing food accounts for just 1,4% of total GDP. For the better part of the Sixties and through to the Nineties, their [...]
Believing in the digital revolution, but not investing in it Optimists are more numerous than pessimists, for the first time since the era of the fiscal crisis in Greece. Recently, the Hellenic Federation of Enterprises presented the results of the "The Pulse of Business" survey, as it has done every year since 2017. The estimate [...]
Nikos Garganas on Greece’s sovereign debt crisis – and the day after Former Bank of Greece Governor Nikos C. Garganas has embarked on a detailed explainer covering the debt crisis Greece has lived through for the better part of a decade starting 2009. The resulting book Greece’s Sovereign Debt Crisis and its Economic aftermath: Analysis [...]
A Survey of Greek Agroindustries Although every year this time around agricultural mobilizations are a common occurence in Greece, this year such a trend seems to be pan-European. In France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany and Poland, farmers are rebelling against the EU's common agricultural policy, complaining over their low incomes, high production costs and ever-increasing [...]