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Look Out Greece: American Billionaires Want Your Ports

2020-10-21 by Phil Butler

Port of Rafina

Greece’s HRADF is ready to sell off the Alexandroupolis Port at a moment when NATO needs a new base and Texas billionaires want more gas.

Tags: Black Summit Financial Group, Corbin J. Robertson, Greece-Russia, HRADF, Hugh Roy Cullen, Mike Pompeo, NATO, NATO bases, Quintana Infrastructure & Development, Quintana Minerals Corporation, Thessaloniki Port Authority

FYROM Extends Olive Branch to Greece Over Naming Row

2018-02-07 by Aleksandr Shatskih

In news from Skopje, Macedonia’s left-wing government renames Alexander the Great Airport to Skopje International in order to quell tensions with Greece.

Tags: Alexander the Great Airport, EU, FYROM, Greece, macedonia, NATO, Skopje

To have, or have not & Russian Tourists in 2015

2015-03-09 by Phil Butler

When Russia’s influence on the Ukraine government of Viktor Yanukovych got challenged by a kind of rampaging western hegemony, all Europe should have studied more closely these relationships. Now, over a year in, the 2015 summer tourist season will probably be a disaster. Regardless of who we lay the blame on for the current west-east detente disaster, […]

Tags: Crete hotels, Cyprus travel, Europe hotels, European commission, Greece tourism, hotel revenue, NATO, rouble, Russia sanctions, sanctions, Ukraine

Weight of Ukraine Unrest, Sanctions, Threaten EU Economies

2014-05-07 by Phil Butler

Jean Claude Juncker

The Ukraine unrest unfolding, US and NATO versus Russia challenges and sanctions, threaten to unravel any hope of continued EU economic recovery. This, according to an ITAR-TASS report, must be weighed against European Commission contentions. Whatever the case for western EU nations, tourism and other sectors in eastern Europe will certainly be stifled.

Tags: banks, EU, EU elections, European commission, IMF, ITAR-TASS, Jean Claude Juncker, Luxembourg, NATO, Russia, Russia sanctions, Siim Kallas, Ukraine, Ukraine unrest

Moldova Gets Visa Free Status: NATO Gets Ally?

2014-04-28 by Phil Butler

German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier and French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius with Moldova's Iurie Leancă

The European Commission has granted Moldovan citizens no visas travel to the EU beginning on today. In a move the EU says will deepen the relationship with East European nation in “defiance of Russia”, Moldova would seem to be a pawn in a much larger NATO game. In this report from Reuters, it’s made clear Moldova, […]

Tags: Containment Theory, Moldova, Moldova economy, NATO, Russia, Ukraine, visas

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