GEORGE PAGOULATOS

The quiet, unexpected vindication of the euro

Behind the horrors of war, amidst successive international crises, a favorable reality for Europe (and Greece) is quietly unfolding.

2022 to 2023: Europe trapped in contradictory geopolitical shifts

Changes come about in different ways. Gradually, over the long term.

20.12.2022 / 22:42

Europe: The threat of the boiling frog

The European Union currently represents less than 6% of the world’s population. Its share will have shrunk to 4.5% by 2050.

16.10.2022 / 10:42

What the European Political Community is and what it is not

Forty-four European leaders, all the current and candidate EU member-states, the whole of geographical Europe and its neighborhood to the east, as far as Armenia and Azerbaijan. The European Political Community (EPoC) Summit was an important event, at the level of symbolism if nothing else. And beyond that?

01.10.2022 / 22:13

Macron at the United Nations

From the floor of the UN General Assembly, in an important and passionate speech, French President Emmanuel Macron addressed those refusing to condemn the barbarity of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

06.09.2022 / 22:23

Wiretapping and the integrity of the nation

The tapping of conversations involving the current leader of Greece’s PASOK party is a matter of the utmost gravity. Not only for the political developments it has set in motion, but also for the profound malaise it reveals.

16.05.2022 / 13:04

A cornered rat is very dangerous indeed

Russian President Vladimir Putin has always been eager to share an instructive story from his childhood, about how, when he was growing up in poverty in Soviet Leningrad, he used to spend his days chasing rats.

04.05.2022 / 18:39

The EU needs to react today, but must look ahead to the next day, too

What responsibility does the European Union have to intervene in a war it didn’t cause, involving a country beyond its political borders?

30.04.2022 / 23:18

So Germany’s to blame for Putin. Really?

Putin’s brutal invasion of Ukraine has sparked a new introspection in the West.

23.04.2022 / 12:39

EU must react, but also look ahead

What responsibility does the European Union have to intervene in a war it didn’t cause, involving a country beyond its political borders?

31.03.2022 / 12:36

The turbulent 21st century

It’s been one crisis after another for the last 20 years. Greece has been at the center of some, and battered by the tidal-wave aftershocks of others.

17.03.2022 / 21:03

The Grand Master and Catherine the Great

On International Women’s Day, one’s thoughts turn to wives, mothers, working women.

21.02.2022 / 21:56

From 1992 to 2022: EU still seeking common foreign and defense policy

Thirty years ago, in February 1992, in an idyllic city in the Netherlands, 12 leaders signed the Treaty on European Union.

13.12.2021 / 10:15

The ambitious pragmatism of ‘old’ Europe

Strategic autonomy indicates the strengthening of the EU’s impact, if not through all 27 acting in unison, then through “coalitions of the willing” or forms of “enhanced cooperation” in which groups of like-minded member-states act jointly.

30.10.2021 / 15:48

A conference for the future of Europe

For two days, on October 22-23, Europe set about doing something it may do better than anything or anyone else: talking. The Conference on the Future of Europe (CoFoE) represents a lot more than opening up the pan-European discussion to its citizens.