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An inflection point: tragic or enticingly promising?
by Anthony Kefalas The world is at an inflection point. It is not the first time, of course. But never before was it at a point where disaster looms one way and an entirely brilliant new world beckons the other way. Unfortunately, my personal odds favour the former rather than the latter. Here is why. To start with, our global society is already faced with the results of a colossal institutional failure. In the throes of the digital revolution, we [...]
Endeavor Catalyst Fund IV: More than $290 million for the Greek entrepreneurs
Endeavor Greece announced the closing of the organization’s fourth consecutive and largest fund to date, Endeavor Catalyst Fund IV, raising more than $290 million. The fund was supported, among others, by a large number of entrepreneurs from Endeavor’s own network from around the world who wish to invest in new innovative ideas and offer opportunities to visionary entrepreneurs operating in secondary markets. Endeavor Greece, Endeavor’s Greek office, is the largest shareholder among the organization’s 41 local offices ensuring that more [...]
Money makes the world go round
Money makes the world go round by Antonis D. Papagiannidis In more ways than one, money makes the world go round. As the after-shocks of international decisions – over the war in Ukraine and the imposition of sanctions – spread around economies, the medicine administered to avert more serious damage is by necessity economic. Actors like the ECB are once more rolling up their sleeves to attempt damage control. On the other side of things, business actors try to make [...]
How Greek and Turkish public opinion gauges US and Russia – and gets introspective
How Greek and Turkish public opinion gauges US and Russia – and gets introspective by Antonis D. Papagiannidis An interesting experiment is underway with successive waves of opinion surveys conducted simultaneously in Greece and Turkey by polling companies – respectively – MRB and KONDA. It is conducted under the auspices of Greek think tank ELIAMEP/ The Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy and its Turkish counterpart IPC/Istanbul Policy Center, with the support of diaNEOsis/Research and Policy Institute having just [...]
European Universities’ Alliances and the role of Greece
European Universities’ Alliances are a new institution that aims to strengthen strategic partnerships between EU higher education institutions that will allow students to obtain a degree by combining studies in different countries and will enhance the international competitiveness of European Universities. Part of the overall plan is to encourage the creation, by 2024, the establishment of twenty such Alliances. So far seven Greek Universities have been selected to participate in the new institution of European Universities, among which is the [...]
Power Factors acquires the Greek Inaccess to create a comprehensive renewables product suite
Power Factors, a global leader in renewable asset management software, announced it acquired the Greek company Inaccess, a leading provider of integrated mission critical software and hardware solutions for renewable power plants, battery energy storage systems, hybrid plants, and virtual power plants (VPPs). Inaccess is a trusted technology and solutions provider to global utilities, oil and gas majors, leading renewable energy developers, investors, and independent power producers. The combination of Power Factors’ leading asset performance management solutions with Inaccess’ SCADA, [...]
Out of Enhanced and into Post-Programme Surveillance – with a 300bps over Bunds for Greek paper
Out of Enhanced and into Post-Programme Surveillance – with a 300bps over Bunds for Greek paper by Antonis D. Papagiannidis It is not difficult to see why the need for a positive narrative over the Greek economy and its way ahead is especially high in this turn of time. Just out of the protracted 2020-mid 2021 crisis of the pandemic and its after-effects that followed close on the heels of the 2010-18 public debt-induced depression, Greece watches the inflation upswell [...]
The Sustainable Development of Small Islands and the Geopolitics of Green Transition
In the enchanting island of Nisyros, a breath away from the natural beauty of the volcano’s crater, the vision of Mr. Panagiotis G. Mihalos will take shape for the first time. The 1st Symposium “Nisyrian Dialogues” will take place June 16 – 19, where prominent personalities from Greece and abroad will exchange key views on the sustainable development of the island and all small islands, the geopolitical importance of the green transition, as well as the ways in which geoparks [...]