Victor Angelo

The hostility between France and Turkey reached a new level today. For now, it is just a war of words. But words matter a lot, in diplomacy ...

  Translation of today’s opinion piece as published in Diário de Notícias (Lisbon). 29 Aug. 2020 Troubled waters in the Eastern Mediterr...

The situation in the Eastern Mediterranean is becoming very tense. Turkey is doing oil mapping at sea, in waters that are contested by a fel...

Earlier in the day, I was explaining to a local group of futurists that I see Morocco playing little Turkey, on their side of the Mediter...

In her speech of yesterday, at the border between Greece and Turkey, the President of the European Commission said that the Turkish Head ...

Political pundits keep repeating, since the massive arrival of immigrants and refugees in 2015, that the European Union has no unified po...

The Balkans route, as it is known, is now closed to the immigrants stuck in Greece. The Macedonian government got the message well before ...

The EU sky is not falling This is a difficult time to be an optimist in Brussels. It is even more challenging to advocate for a posi...

The EU has to adopt a comprehensive response plan to the migratory crisis. The chaotic situations in Greece need to be brought under contr...

Today, I should put on record two events. They are both indicative of the state of mind that prevails in some political quarters in Europe...

The immigration issue remains at the top of the EU agenda. Every day brings new flows of people into Italy, Greece and elsewhere.  Man...

I have supported since the early days Jean-Claude Juncker as President of the European Commission. I know he has the experience and the co...

The Eurogroup meeting of finance ministers is still on at the very end of this evening. It has been a long meeting. And also a very tense ...

Greece was told tonight three things: one, they have to come up with a detailed and implementable financial reform programme; two, the Eur...

We should congratulate Alexis Tsipras this evening. The Greek voters have shown they unmistakably support him and his approach to country´...

The Greek crisis is now getting to the breaking point. Businesses are just closing their doors as they have little or no access to financi...

Today we should look elsewhere. To the US, for instance as we get the news that Puerto Rico is also broke. The public debt is around USD 7...

Political uncertainty is not a good option. The role of leadership is to make it as short as possible. Leaders clarify and define the rule...

The EU public opinion matters a lot. People have access to lots of information but the average citizen is still very much influenced by wh...

Today´s prevailing position on Greece´s fate, in the European political and financial circles that have power, was rather clear: it´s time...