Greek election results – 20 September 2015
General election of 20 September 2015; with about 93% of votes counted. For updates see Greek Interior Ministry site.
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“There is not enough Union in this Union”
First State of the Union address to the European Parliament by European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker State of the Union 2015: Time for Honesty, Unity and Solidarity Strasbourg, 9 September 2015 Mr President, Honourable Members of the European Parliament, Today is the first time during my mandate as President of the European Commission…
Lazy days of summer in Europe
Crisis or not, the summer vacation season is reaching its peak in Europe, with the beaches of Southern Europe at their most crowded.
New Suez Canal: connecting seas, economies, regimes
New Suez Canal inauguration, 6 August 2015.
Which countries in the EU make the most of their older people?
For more information, visit Active Ageing Index
The Return of the Troika
Representatives from the EU and the IMF are headed back to Athens to begin negotiations over the third bailout after Greece’s late payment to its international creditors. Technical experts on both sides will officially begin the debate surrounding fiscal and labour issues as well as pensions on Tuesday, 28 July.
First malaria vaccine receives positive opinion from European regulators
Press release 24/07/2015 First malaria vaccine receives positive scientific opinion from EMA Mosquirix to be used for vaccination of young children, together with established antimalarial interventions The European Medicines Agency’s Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) has adopted a positive scientific opinion for Mosquirix (Plasmodium falciparum and hepatitis B vaccine), for use outside…
When fences can’t keep homegrown terrorists out…
The suicide bomber who killed 32 people in the border town of Suruç on Monday, 20 July, has been identified as Turkish citizen Seyh Abdurrahman Alagoz. The 20-year old Kurdish university student from the Adiyaman province disappeared six months ago with his older brother, Yunus Emre, likely crossing the Syrian border to join ISIS forces….
Will “normality” come back to Greece?
The last three weeks have been a traumatic experience for the Greek people. Closed banks, limited cash withdrawals and a feeling of being about to experience something unknown and, likely, very bad, have kept the entire population on the verge of a nervous breakdown. On Monday 20 July, banks reopened their doors. Capital controls remain…
