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GREECE IS FACING A HISTORICAL DILEMMA: DEMOCRACY OR OLIGARCHY?
After five months of intense negotiations between SYRIZA, the leftist Greek government, and the “institutions” formerly known as the Troika, and after spending most of last week locked in discussions with creditors which did
Read More »EUROSCEPTICISM AND THE ‘RIGHT TURN’ IN EU COUNTRIES
Nobody will be surprised with the word “euroscepticism” in the European Union today as the word has organically entered the mass media and scientific literature. The number of eurosceptics grows, even entire political parties
Read More »NEW DEFENSE STRATEGY: GERMANY READYING FOR WAR?
Ukraine crisis became a catalyst for revisiting of foreign and defense policies pursued by the countries of the European Union. Germany has assumed the most active position and commenced developing a new security strategy
Read More »GEOPOLITICAL REALITIES IN THE CASPIAN REGION IN THE CONTEXT OF SHAPING OF NEW WORLD ORDER
World political map, formed in the early XXI century, increasingly resembles an utterly motley mosaic, where world and regional powers are neighboring small states that are affected by global and inter-civilizational problems, in one
Read More »MAMMADOV: AZERBAIJAN HAS ITS OWN POSITION ON COOPERATION WITH EU
”The Riga Summit aims at maintaining and reviewing the current state of cooperation of the European Union with Eastern Partnership countries, and Azerbaijan has its own position on cooperation with EU”, deputy head
Read More »“TURKISH STREAM” PROJECT AND THE INTERESTS OF CENTRAL AND SOUTHEASTERN EUROPEAN STATES
Russia’s “South Stream” gas pipeline project replacement by “Turkish Stream” had an impact on energy policy of importers by a number of countries in Central and South-Eastern Europe. Bulgaria was left out of the
Read More »RESURRECTION OF NABUCCO PIPELINE: REAL OR MYTH?
The energy history of East-West energy corridor has not started with Nabucco, but Nabucco was considered a crown-jewel of the Southern Gas Corridor. Nabucco Consortium was established with Ankara Agreement in 2009 by Turkey, Romania, Bulgaria,
Read More »THE BREXIT VOTE: UNCERTAINTY OVER ALTERNATIVE?
Britain’s Prime Minister David Cameron has set one the most memorable campaign moods in British history, as the May election draws near experts are predicting a major change in the country political and economic
Read More »ARGUMENTS ON TTIP
What is TTIP and what does it aim to do? The bilateral trade agreement negotiated between the EU and US is called the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, or in short TTIP. Because it
Read More »EU VS. RUSSIA: OUTSET OF NEW PHASE OF ENERGY CONFRONTATION
The European Union is in the search of a new centralization model. The final document adopted at the closing of the EU Summit held in Brussels on 18-19 March included the intention of establishing
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