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The United Kingdom or the Commission should urgently request the creation of a panel of legal experts within the WTO in order to analyse the consequences of Brexit for the EU in terms of the customs union. This crucial work would take between 3 and 9 months, depending on the method chosen to constitute the panel and determine its mandate.

Brexit: a WTO issue first and foremost

By: EBR | Friday, September 30, 2016

100 days on from the fateful UK referendum, the only thing agreed on is the huge complexity of Brexit

The ones who thereby come under pressure rarely win anything from the winners’ gains – that’s the experience of the last 20 years. And this experience must lead us to clever conclusions: If we want to retain global – and with it, European – integration then we must protect people from loss and make sure of a sensible, fair balance. Otherwise, the people who see themselves as the losers of globalisation will revolt. In fact, we’re already living through this revolt.

Repowering Europe: How to combat austerity, alienation and Brexit

By: EBR | Thursday, September 29, 2016

In the eyes of its citizens the EU has become the patron of an unfair modernisation that benefits only a handful of people

In a debate that was scheduled to last 90 minutes but headed into overtime, Trump and Clinton jabbed each other in the fiercest series of exchanges in a presidential debate in modern times.

Clinton and Trump meet for their first presidential debate

By: EBR | Tuesday, September 27, 2016

It was exating to watch the battle between the two presidential nominees Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump for the first time on stage

The majority of American Jews thinks Clinton would be better than Trump in handling terrorism (58 percent vs. 22 percent) and dealing effectively with Iran (58 percent vs. 19 percent) — two top items on the Israeli agenda as well — and in general, better in promoting U.S.-Israel relations (57 percent vs. 22 percent).

A President who’s good for America is good for Israel, too

By: EBR | Monday, September 26, 2016

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has had a strained relationship with President Obama, has not taken sides in the U.S. presidential race

Thus, media shops reward with huge amounts fake visits by giving adverts to websites with fake readers. As a result, advertisers pay having the illusion of the one million single visits…

The truth behind online advertising metrics

By: Athanase Papandropoulos | Monday, September 26, 2016

Unbelievable deteriorations of website visits and businesses’ spent money

First and foremost though, the monster of populism must be crushed for good. Currently, it continues to feed on the mistakes of the past, the failures of the reform program and the desperation of people at the prolonged austerity. As long as populism remains powerful it will continue to appeal and attract more followers to its path, eventually poisoning healthy prospects terminally.

Populism And Social Democracy’s Distress

By: EBR | Monday, September 19, 2016

The EU’s political landscape is being transformed as the economic and the refugee crises intertwine with terror. Populism is becoming consistently a rising force across Europe

This event could be a make-or-break moment for each of the two candidates. By September 26, we’ll be only six weeks from Election Day. Debates are candidates’ final opportunity to speak directly to the largest group of citizens, to make their case and, as a result, change perceptions, minds and votes.

The Clinton versus Trump debate

By: EBR | Sunday, September 18, 2016

The first presidential debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump is less than one week away. It is set for September 26 at New York's Hofstra University with moderator Lester Holt of NBC Nightly News

So now, it is the time of liberals for Greece. These liberals are called to reform a corrupted state and transform it into a European rule of law. And to be more specific, by talking about liberal choice we don’t mean nothing more or less than the liberation of economy from the chains of the clientlist system, the mafia style unionism, the rent-seeking, the plunder of the public property and the unceasing bureaucratic corruption.

Time for the Greece of Europe

By: Athanase Papandropoulos | Friday, September 9, 2016

In modern Greece during 2016, 42 years after the restitution of Democracy, everything seems that the last socialist economic system of Europe is collapsing – excluding Russia of Vladimir Putin

However, it seems that the new US administration as well as upcoming elections in Germany and France could end up posing bigger threats to the trade agreement than Brexit.

Will TTIP survive Brexit?

By: EBR | Friday, July 29, 2016

There are concerns that the UK’s decision to leave the EU may jeopardise future TTIP negotiations. Some fear Brexit could make the EU a less attractive trade partner for the US

In contrast, ‘apparent’ competitiveness refers to the ability of a country to compete in international markets with countries that do not share its currency, which depends not only on its ‘essential’ competitiveness but also, quite crucially, on the exchange rate. A change in ‘essential’ competitiveness tends to affect the exchange rate in a way that causes the ‘apparent’ competitiveness to move in the opposite direction, so that the balance of payments is, at least roughly and over time, in equilibrium.

The leverage of competitiveness by a currency union and Germany’s gain from the euro

By: EBR | Monday, July 25, 2016

Evidently, the mirror image of Germany’s enhancement of competitiveness is found in the southern European countries, the competitiveness of which is lower than the Eurozone’s weighted average and is, therefore, negatively leveraged

As a result, this deficit considered as not so troublesome, the whole governmental effort should target to a balance between the high primary surpluses which are trapping the economy in stagnation and recession (especially when at the same time they have been “stuck” the great structural reforms for variable reasons) and between the low surpluses or even deficits for a short time, which are nevertheless succeeding the demand revival and the recovery of the real economy from deep recession.

Yes, we shall need the deficit in State Budget

By: EBR | Monday, July 25, 2016

The reverse for deficit attaining instead of surplus attaining is a deep and long-standing debate, which acts “harshly” for a proportion of the country’s sophisticated Economists and Governors

In the case of the school, initiative and resources must be transferred to the schools’ stakeholders. The decisions affecting the day to day operations of the school should be made by those who comprise the school community: the school director, the teachers, parents and to some extent the students themselves.

The liberated school and social change

By: EBR | Thursday, July 21, 2016

For the last six years the political elite, the state apparatus and Greek society have been strikingly unable to come up with ideas and programs to lead the country out of its economic crisis