Azeri officials are visiting Athens today to announce their choice of the ‘Greek corridor’ for the flow of their natural gas towards the central European Union countries, to reach them after crossing also the Adriatic Sea in a deep water pipeline to Italy. Let’s folow the facts. Very early last Monday morning the European Sting […]Azerbaijan chooses Greek corridor for its natural gas flow to EU
Azeri officials are visiting Athens today to announce their choice of the ‘Greek corridor’ for the flow of their natural gas towards the central European Union countries, to reach them after crossing also the Adriatic Sea in a deep water pipeline to Italy. Let’s folow the facts. Very early last Monday morning the European Sting […]Azeri natural gas will keep the EU warm soon
Ilham Aliyev, the President of Azerbaijan was in Brussels on Friday 21 June for a good reason. The giant state oil and gas company of his country, Socar, has reportedly agreed with the Greek authorities to acquire the National Natural Gas System Operator (DESFA) S.A. of Greece, owner and operator of the country’s natural gas […]Filed Under: Energy, EUGlobe, Policy, Russia Tagged With: Aliyev, Azerbaijan, Barroso, Energy, Greece, Nabucco, natural gas, Rompuy, Southern Corridor
The Eurogroup has set Cyprus on fire
Eurogroup’s decision to impose a haircut on all bank accounts held in Cypriot banks, even on balances bellow the until today “theoretically” guaranteed benchmark of €100,000, may become a boomerang for the entire Eurozone and will certainly set the island once more on fire. Who is to say that this will not have a devastating […]Can the Americans alone determine the future of Syria?
The last speech of Bashar al Assad on the first Friday of New Year, which deeply disappointed the West and the Sunni Arabs in the oil rich countries of the Persian Gulf, was about an all-out war. He spoke of “a full scale war” against the enemies of his regime, mainly the Sunni Muslims. But […]Filed Under: EUGlobe, Russia, Turkey, USA Tagged With: Alawites, Ankara, Bashar Al Assad, Catherine Ashton, Günther Oettinger, Herman van Rompuy, José Manuel Barroso, Karel De Gucht, Kurdish state, Libya, Persian Gulf, PKK Kurd, Russia, Shia, Sunnis, Syria, Teheran, Tell Aviv, Vladimir Putin
Where is heading Putin’s Russia?
Russia is the third trading partner of the EU and the EU is the first trading partner of Russia. This simple fact tells the whole story, about the relations between the two largest economic volumes of the Old Continent. Not much of Europe is left outside the two heavyweights. Energy, food, machinery and equipment, raw […]Filed Under: EUGlobe, Russia Tagged With: Angela Merkel, authoritarian governance, Energy, EU, EU-Russia, European Union, Gas corridors, Karel De Gucht, machinery and equipment, Moscow, Putin, Russia, World Trade Organisation, WTO, WTO accession, Yeltsin

















