Greek Business File, June-July-August 2020, No 126 COMMENT by Nick Papandreou What’s new in the Franco-German €500 billion bailout scheme announced just a few weeks ago? For one thing, it is specifically targeted to the countries whose economies were most aff ected by the lockdown, such as Spain, Italy and Greece, three members of [...]
Greek Business File, June-July-August 2020, No 126 SHIPPING History takes us back in 1983, when Professor Costas Grammenos founded The International Centre for Shipping, Trade and Finance and had the vision to introduce the three interlinked circles of Shipping, Trade and Finance, and along them a new approach to international business, the so-called global [...]
Greek Business File, June-July-August 2020, No 126 Emerging markets and low-income countries will be faced by a synchronized deep crisis in the following months, estimates Elias Papaioannou, Professor of Economics at LBS. The big problem in Europe, he adds, is that each country’s capacity to cope with the health and the economic crisis differs [...]
Greek Business File, June-July-August 2020, No 126 By Alexander S. Kritikos Greece cannot take on another decade of slow economic progress. Professor Alexander S. Kritikos in this article points out that the current economic break, as terrible as it also is for all economic life, is a second chance for Greece. Now is the time [...]
Greek Business File, June-July-August 2020, No 126 By George Prevelakis Europe will soon face a demographic bomb from Africa, with its fast growing and younger than Europe’s population, and with East Mediterranean being the most important physical link between the two continents. The control of the maritime space between the two continents provided by [...]
Greek Business File, June-July-August 2020, No 126 Interview by Antonis Karamalegkos A pragmatist by profession, Greek shipowner Dimitris Fafalios is certain that shipping companies will recover in a matter of days from Covid-19. Nevertheless, sectors such as passengers ships, ferries and cruise vessels will be negatively impacted I cannot begin without addressing the [...]
Greek Business File, April-May 2020, No 125 By Michel Foucher Map reading: a civic and political necessity In the globalization era, cartographical disputes go along with territorial ones, as well as geopolitical rivalries. Professor Michel Foucher, in this exclusive article for GBF based on the Athens presentation of the issue at the French Institute, March [...]
Greek Business File, April-May 2020, No 125 GBF reports In the dawn of the post-memorandum era, the Greek economy is facing the diffi cult challenge of maintaining an appetite for reform as a result of choice and no longer of enforcement. This is what Professor Panos Tsakloglou (Athens University of Economics and Business) and [...]
Greek Business File, April-May 2020, No 125 By Lalela Chryssanthopoulou Exhibitions and dialogues about Antiquity, Renaissance and modern art In this exclusive interview professor Nikos Stambolidis shares his experience as director of the Cycladic Arts Museum for almost a quarter of a century and gives his vision for the Museum of Eleutherna and the archaeological [...]
Greek Business File, June-July-August 2020, No 126 By Vasilis Trigkas The End of Liberal Hegemony: America and China on the verge of a new Cold War After 3 decades of peaceful economic interdependence, US and China will be fast moving towards a new Cold War in the age of social media and big data. [...]