CIB chairman Edward Spalton reflects that an independent Scotland would be forced to endure years of crippling austerity if it chose to rejoin the EU. Moreover, the EU elite has a history of treating its smaller member states with contempt. […]
Former Greek ambassador Leonidas Chrysanthopoulos provides an update on the EU’s policy towards Turkey, which continues to make hostile incursions into Greek and Cypriot waters. The EU has spent over a year issuing warnings to Turkey, but fails to back […]
With Covid and Brexit dominating the news, British readers may not be aware of a conflict brewing in the Eastern Mediterranean between Greece and Turkey. An increasingly aggressive Turkish foreign policy has seen Ankara send its naval forces into (contested) […]
Last week German foreign minister Heiko Maas used the term ‘torture tools’ to describe the hyper-austerity that the Troika (the European Commission, European Central Bank and the IMF) has imposed on Greece for the past decade. Greek Ambassador ad honorem […]
The hyper-austerity that the EU has imposed on Greece since 2010 means that containing Coronavirus while keeping Greek citizens out of destitution is an almost impossible task. Cessation of payments to the EU creditors is the only solution that can […]
What a night! Parliament Square was a sea of union jacks on Friday night, as thousands of democrats and patriots gathered to celebrate our departure from the EU (or ‘a few hundred’, according the BBC’s alternative reality). And the red-white-and-blue […]
