By Robert H. Scales The tapes tell the tale. Go back and look at images of our nation’s most senior soldier, Gen. Martin Dempsey, and his body language during Tuesday’s Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearings on Syria. It’s pretty obvious that Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, doesn’t want this war. As Secretary […]
By Justine Frangouli-Argyris Greek Prime Minister, Antonis Samaras, arrived in Washington on an official visit this past Thursday where he was warmly greeted by President Barack Obama. What emerged from their discussions is that Washington is firmly behind Greece’s ongoing efforts to return to economic health but that it is time the European policy of […]
By Justine Frangouli-Argyris Angela Merkel and Wolfgang Schauble are engaged in a pre-election struggle to convince their voters, along with the world’s markets, that Greece’s debt will not require a new haircut. The German chancellor recently reiterated that she “see[s] no haircut for Greece” while her Finance Minister repeated his government’s objection to any further […]
Via Conference Call – 1:20 P.M. EDT MS. HAYDEN: Hi, everyone. Thanks for joining us on what we know is a busy day. We are doing this call on background with senior administration officials to talk to you about the documents you just received — the U.S. government assessment of the Syrian government’s use of chemical […]
Following on the President’s calls with House and Senate leaders over the last day, and building on extensive Cabinet Member outreach to Congress over the past week, this evening Senior Administration Officials held an unclassified phone call with congressional leaders and the Chairs and Ranking Members of national security committees to brief them on the […]
Mr. Wes McGrew has been appointed IMF Resident Representative in Greece and will start his assignment on September 2, 2013. He replaces Mr. Bob Traa, whose three-year assignment ends this month.
By George Venizelos In this period of radical social and economic changes, the spark of SYRIZA, the Coalition of Radical Left, as its name stands for, gave hope to some of those who felt betrayed and pessimistic about the future of socialism. For in Greece, a radical party seemed to be threatening the political status […]
By Michael Rubin Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan may think he is riding high. Despite the recent Gezi protests, he remains popular among a large segment of society and, during his last election, he surpassed 50 percent of the vote.
Appeal to the International Community to protect multi-ethnic communities in Syria: We, the Kurdish political parties, organisations and community members in exile call upon the international community to protect the civilians of Northern Syria – Kurds, Arabs and other ethnicities and religious groups such as Assyrians, Armenians, Christians – against the brutal ethnic cleansing taking […]
The Secretary-General met today (Friday) with H.E. Mr. Antonis Samaras, Prime Minister of Greece. The Secretary-General and the Prime Minister exchanged views on the global economic crisis and, in particular, its impact on Greece.