Turkey in 2025 is an instructive example about how to derail a macro-economic stabilization program that was starting to take root.
St Catherine’s Monastery, established in the 6th century under the patronage of Byzantine Emperor Justinian I, occupies not only a geographically remote corner of the Sinai Peninsula but also a uniquely liminal space between spiritual autonomy and sovereign control.
President Donald Trump has finally found a way to like arming Ukraine: ask European allies to donate their weapons, and sell them American replacements.
Tractors driven by disgruntled farmers have repeatedly descended on Athens in recent years, stopping outside Parliament on Syntagma Square, while road blockades – a common occurrence during the lull in the agricultural season – have been a headache for successive governments and the authorities.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s main political opponents have faced an unprecedented crackdown that has seen more than 500 detained in just nine months, according to a Reuters review of a sprawling investigation that has accelerated dramatically in recent days.
The day after last month’s deadly suicide attack on a church outside Syria’s capital, hundreds of Christians marched in Damascus chanting against foreign fighters and calling for them to leave the country.
There exists a striking asymmetry in the study of public opinion concerning German-Greek relations. While we have fairly precise data on how Greeks have viewed Germany over the past 20 years, until very recently, virtually nothing was known about how Germans perceive Greece and the Greek people.
As the international political landscape grows more complex and the Euro-Atlantic security architecture comes under mounting strain, Greeks appear to favor neutrality and moderation in how their country engages with global conflicts.
Suitcases rattle against cobblestones. Selfie-snappers jostle for the same shot. Ice cream shops are everywhere. Europe has been called the world’s museum, but its record numbers of visitors have also made it ground zero for concerns about overtourism.
The third UN Ocean Conference opens Monday as pressure mounts for nations to turn decades of promises into real protection for the sea.
The European Union’s flagship Just Transition Fund has spent less than 3% of its €26.7 billion ($30.5 billion US) to support regions and communities’ shift away from fossil fuel industries, despite running for more than four years.
Bulgaria is close to realizing its decades-old goal of joining the euro currency union and deepening ties with the more prosperous countries of Western Europe.
Turkish companies see big opportunities in neighboring Syria as a lifting of US sanctions clears the way for investment in post-war reconstruction, but they remain wary of challenges, from lingering insecurity to banking and tax headaches.
Although US President Donald Trump appears committed to lifting CAATSA sanctions and reviving arms sales to Turkey – including its acquisition of F-35 fighter jets – his administration’s legal teams are dealing with a challenge that is significantly more complex.
The chemistry between Kyriakos Mitsotakis and his host, Friedrich Merz, was good. The Greek prime minister was the first head of state to visit Berlin after Merz’s new government took office.
And suddenly, the occupied territories filled with demonstrators. Turkish Cypriots took to the streets – and stayed there.
Cyprus won’t stop launching legal proceedings against realtors and developers who illegally make money off Greek Cypriot properties in the Turkish-occupied north of the Mediterranean island, with four such cases currently being adjudicated, an official said Friday.
Zoe Konstantopoulou’s wrath for her former comrade Alexis Tsipras was never a secret. Nor did it ever go quiet. It only swelled. Not that the former prime minister is any less incensed by the head of the Course of Freedom party.
The 76-year-old militant leader Abdullah Ocalan has spent a quarter of a century in jail after leading his Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) to take up arms against the Turkish state to fight for a Kurdish homeland.
Prime Minister Edi Rama is seeking a fourth term as Albania’s prime minister in a general election on Sunday, after taking on his political nemesis in a boisterous campaign dominated by the country’s uphill effort to join the European Union.
Edi Rama is probably busy picking out a suit to celebrate his fourth term as Albania’s prime minister, as his incumbent Socialist Party is widely expected to win Sunday’s general election.
The sight from Rranci’s house highlights the lingering impacts of endemic graft in the Balkan country of 2.4 million people, where Prime Minister Edi Rama is seeking re-election for an unprecedented fourth term in May 11 elections.
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