The Iranian regime has recently used fierce brutality to suppress the uprisings of its indignant citizens. Anecdotal evidence published in the international press reported dead numbers ranging from 100 to 200, thousands wounded and arrested respectively. Indeed, the theocratic regime in Iran was not confined to the application of wild pogroms but blamed the revolutionary
NATO’s seventy years birthday will be celebrated at the London summit in December, but not in a festive atmosphere as it will appropriate and given the criticism of French President Emmanuel Macron as to how he sees NATO’s function. Of course, President Macron particular criticism that NATO is “brain-dead” is based on the ever-increasing autonomy
The Nile River, which the ancient Egyptians considered a source of all life and follows a northwest direction by establishing fertile all the valleys of North-East Africa and always from the day of the planet’s existence, defining a major role in the course of human civilisation continues to be the subject of a very complex
Since May until today, North Korea has been involved in testing three short-range ballistic missiles. On 3 October it triggered a mid-range ballistic missile between the Korean Peninsula and the Japanese Sea from an underwater vessel. On October 31 North Korea made a successful-always according to North Korea news agency-test of a launch system “multiple
The Turkish invasion of northern Syria and its successful military outcome for Turkey, while the inability to establish an intense and well-organised EU response on this issue, highlighted the very low power that the EU holds to influence any geopolitical developments in the Middle East neighbourhood. This EU weakness is based on geopolitical mistakes in
The big winner in Syria appears to be Russia and the Russian President Vladimir Putin. The American promises made with the agreement between Michael Pence and Erdogan are of little importance given the withdrawal of US soldiers from Syria, indicating that the U.S. has been self-marginalized in the region without being able to change the
The Greek government, in cooperation with the EU-Commission, should make a derogation in respect of a specific asset of the Greek state which is wrongly led to a long-term lease scheme with a very low price and a correspondingly small expected benefit to the Greek state, in relation to its value and the prevailing macroeconomic
The UK’s secession from the EU is an essential and huge-dimensional blow at both geopolitical and geo-strategic levels for the EU. The EU losing its ranks in the UK is essentially losing a member-country with a highly developed economy and a commercial capability that has one of the three most developed global financial systems, which
Turkey’s invasion of northern Syria manages to unfold the entire strategy of the Middle East and Eastern Mediterranean agenda. The US shift towards the Persian Gulf, strengthening their military presence in Saudi Arabia with an increasing number of fighter aircraft and personnel beyond 2000, manages to keep up the pressure on Iran, but ignoring the
As the Earth’s population rises, the phenomenon of climate change has deteriorated due to the overconsumption of goods and mainly consumer products from industrial and technologically advanced countries. Developed and emerging economies have been reinforcing their annual overall production and productivity rather than theιρ occasional declining fluctuations in GDP and economic activity. As a result,
