Thanos Davelis, Director of Public Affairs, HALC Over the past 5 years voters have made a habit of rejecting the mainstream center-right and center-left parties that dominated the post-World War II period. Europeans have faced circumstances typically associated with wartime…
Nicholas Tomaras, Pericles Fellow, HALC Over the past two years, more than 1.3 million people fleeing persecution and conflict passed through Greece in search of safety and a better life in Europe. Greece’s response to the crisis has been nothing…
Thanos Davelis, Director of Public Affairs, HALC Europe breathed a sigh of relief last week after reaching an agreement to release the next tranche of its 86 billion euro bailout to Greece, preventing a default in payments in July. Prime…
By Thanos Davelis, Senior Research Associate, HALC Greece reached a deal with its creditors amid tense negotiations late last week. Statements from government officials in Athens and Brussels heralded a “breakthrough” in stalled negotiations, signaling that a deal preventing a…
By Thanos Davelis, Senior Research Associate, HALC At the peak of the migrant crisis, Greece’s eastern Aegean islands saw an unprecedented number of migrants and refugees crossing the Aegean Sea from Turkey — approximately 6,827 per day (UN figures). The crisis is…