As we embark on 2026, there’s no doubt that relations have de-escalated, but equally so that they now find themselves at a crossroads. 

The fireworks welcoming the new calendar year around the world had barely ended, when another kind of firework display started, sponsored by the US taxpayer and directed by Donald Trump: America struck key Venezuelan military installations and abducted President Maduro and his wife, to try them in US courts as leaders of a “narco-terrorism conspiracy” […]

A think tank like ELIAMEP, dealing mainly with foreign policy issues, with audiences both domestically and abroad, how far can it deviate from the official positions of the country and the government of the day?

If in 2025 we lived through the dawn of this new world, in 2026 we will live through its sunrise—from our microcosm to the broader, larger world

In 2026, the international community will be called upon to address two open wounds and a fundamental problem.

Prime Minister Mitsotakis will travel to Germany in mid-January to attend a major CDU event as its sole foreign guest

Prosperity, geopolitical power, utilitarian benefits, and democracy

The one-sided focus on guarding the eastern borders has been repeatedly highlighted by Athens, with Kyriakos Mitsotakis regularly stressing the need to prioritize actions such as advancing the project of a European anti-missile shield

After the fall of the Berlin Wall and nearly four decades of carefree existence, Europe is forced into an exercise of hetero-determination

I now feel that we can wish our readers and their families health and happiness for the holiday period with relative confidence and in good faith.

The challenge for Greece, therefore, is not insufficient civic engagement but limited strategic capacity. When citizens experience dissent as an end in itself rather than a means to reform, protest risks reinforcing stability rather than challenging it

No longer bound by an ideologically charged narrative used to serve America’s image as a beacon of democracy, Trump enjoys more flexibility to tilt to authoritarianism at home

Digitalization that ignores a country’s strengths and fails to support the sectors that need it most is ultimately ineffective

“What went wrong, and why did the situation get out of hand communication-wise?”

The Second Cold War broke out suddenly and unannounced between the US and Europe and as it expands to encompass ever more areas, there is little indication where it will go from here

After all this, it does not take much thought to realize that, after Ukraine and Gaza, a third extremely dangerous front is now opening in Latin America

Every major technological shift documented in history has arrived with both hope and fear. Yet history shows that while disruption is inevitable, societies adapt—and often emerge wiser and stronger

Nikos Romanos didn’t appear on the police radar out of nowhere. He is the 15-year-old who held his dead friend Alexandros Grigoropoulos in his arms when he was shot and killed by a police officer—a member of an auxiliary corps of the Greek Police—in Exarchia

If AI is the new currency of power, Europe is trying to mint its other side: a system in which authority remains accountable and humans are not assessed as statistical probabilities, but recognized as bearers of inalienable rights

Cooperation between the governments in Berlin and Athens on migration policy has been intensive for years; in scarcely any other policy area is it closer or more systematic