On Sunday, Italian energy giant ENI discovered one of the largest known gas field in the Mediterranean off the Egyptian coast, predicting the find could help meet Egypt’s gas needs for decades to come. According to geophysical data, the deep-water deposit in the “Zohr” Prospect is located at a depth of 1.450 meters and it […]
Historical judgment needs a far-sighted approach and this is particularly true for the President Obama, who distinguished himself by opening gradual processes aimed at ridding Washington diplomacy from old constraints that have underpinned American foreign policy for decades and that are no more functional to Washington’s interests. Indeed, the restoring of the U.S political ties […]
On Monday, the Hamburg court asked India and Italy to “suspend” ongoing court proceedings in the Italian marines case and not initiate new ones that might aggravate or extend the dispute. The Tribunal for the Law of Sea ruled that it would not take action over the killing of two Indian fishermen that caused […]
On Thursday, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia declared the state of emergency on its borders, after weeks of chaos at a railway station where daily thousands of migrants and refugees, opting to travel through the Balkan route, crossed Greece and tried to enter Europe’s Schengen Area. Accusing Greece, with which it has a tense […]
Last Thursday, the Greek Prime Minister, Alexis Tsipras, has announced that he was stepping down to pave the way for snap elections next month. The resignation came after an anti-bailout mutiny by his party’s eurosceptics that formally ended his parliamentary majority. Albeit working to secure the best possible rescue package for his country, Tsipras stated […]
Last week, following the suicide bombing in Suruç attributed to the Islamic State, Turkey launched, for the first time, overnight airstrikes against jihadists in Syria. In doing so, Ankara went also on its longstanding enemy, the Kurdistan Working Party, known as the PKK. As Turkey decided to take a more active role in fighting against ISIS, […]
The ARCADIA project aims to provide a novel reconfigurable by design highly distributed applications development paradigm over programmable infrastructure. The main objective is to facilitate application developers to develop a software that is able to take advantage of the underlying infrastructure, while in parallel support the deployment and dynamic configuration of applications in an optimal […]
Broad support for policies and actions that will generate resources in support of the implementation of a new sustainable development agenda, emerged from the United Nations Third International Conference on Financing for Development. The so-called Addis Ababa Conference, which was a follow-up to the 2002 Monterrey Consensus and the 2008 Doha Declaration, was supposed to […]
On the 9th of July, the European Commission has adopted new rules to reduce administrative burden and enable Member States to be quickly reimbursed for spending on projects for young people. Namely, new rules regard the operations funded by two key EU programme: the Youth Employment Initiative (YEI) and the European Social Fund (ESF). The European […]
In the framework of the Energy Union strategy, the Commission has recently presented proposals for a new deal for energy consumers to launch a redesign of the European electricity market, to update energy efficiency labelling and to revise the EU Emissions Trading System. “The package is an important step towards implementing the Energy Union strategy with […]
