Cyprus and the benefits of the tax-haven regime

Location has always proved crucial to Cyprus’s prosperity, and the recent crisis in Lebanon highlighted its role as a safe place to do business for banks, corporates and private investors. Nick Kochan reports.
Geographical location has rarely been more critical in ensuring an economy’s development than it is in the case of Cyprus. The island in [...]

Drug trade in Asia

“Drug trade in Asia”.
An  article bt Pierre-Arnaud Chouvy has been published in the “Encyclopedia of Modern Asia” (pp. 302, 304, in Levinson D., Christensen K. (Ed.),2002, Encyclopedia of Modern Asia, Chicago, Scribners, 3600 p.)
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Bibliography on Women in Intelligence

Sarah Helm
A Life In Secrets: The Story of Vera Atkins and the Lost Agents of SOE
London: Little Brown, 2005
In the “man’s world” of WWII European intelligence, Atkins rose quickly to a key position in Britain’s Special; Operations Executive (SOE) selecting agents and sending them to Europe. After the war she went searching for those who [...]

Bulgaria and Greece Expand Cooperation

Bulgaria’s expected accession to the European Union is functioning as a catalyst for Greek investors’ interest in the Bulgarian market. During the first half of the current year, a real leap has taken place regarding Greek investments in this Balkan country, exceeding 640 million EURO; in 2005 they reached 181 million EURO. Greece is the [...]

Greece to fund highway project

The Greek Government is expected to give 100 million euros to Serbia for completing its Corridor X highway project.
According to Serbian Foreign Economic Relations Minister Milan Parivodić, the Greek Government is expected to announce a decision for giving 100 million euros of donations to Serbia for completing the highway from Leskovac to the Macedonian border.
The [...]

Interview by the Greek Foreign Minister Dora Bakoyanni to the newspaper Dnevnik in Skopje

1. Athens and Skopje constantly assess that bilateral relations are on very high level. Argument more is the fact that Greece is investor number one in Macedonia. Nevertheless, diplomatic representation is not on embassy level, so very logical is the question: which are the arguments for assessments that relations are so good and do you [...]

New Norwegian, Swedish embassies, UNDP Office to open in Skopje

Norway and Sweden will open their new embassies, while United Nations Development Program (UNDP) its new office in Skopje on Wednesday.
Swedish Vice Foreign Minister Hans Jeppson, Deputy-Director General in Norwegian Foreign Ministry Nils Kamsvaag, UNDP Resident Representative to FYROM Maria Luisa Silva Mejias, and FYROM Vice Premier Zoran Stavreski will address the opening ceremony.
Afterwards, the [...]

Southeast European Energy Community

Greece and Austria are seeking to improve operation of the Southeast European Energy Community, Development Minister Dimitris Sioufas said in the Austrian capital. “Smooth functioning of the Energy Community is a joint aim of the two countries,” Mr. Sioufas told reporters after a meeting with the Austrian Minister of finance, labor and energy, Martin Bartenstein. [...]

Venezuela and the Rise of Chavez

By  Richard Lapper
PART 1: Origins of Chavez’s Rule
PART 2: Chavez in power
PART 3: Radicalization of the Regime
PART 1: Origins of Chavez’s Rule
This section will look at the biography of Hugo Chavez and assess the factors that brought him into Venezuelan politics and led to the emergence of his radical anti-American vision. It will seek to [...]

Greece, Bahrain sign MoU

Greece and Bahrain on Monday signed a Memorandum of Understanding during a meeting in Manama between visiting Greek transport and communications minister Michalis Liapis and Bahrain deputy prime minister and transportation minister Sheikh Ali bin Khalifa al-Khalifa.
   
The Memorandum seeks to increase routes and pasenger movement between the two countries, and to further develop and expand [...]