The crises impacting EU cohesion (austerity, migrants, Brexit, referendum in Italy), the election of President Elect D. J.Trump in the USA, the uncertain and erroneous course of globalization, the causal factors fueling a new cold war and the dangerous tensions in the Mediterranean region were some of the topics discussed in a conference under the subject “Russia, Greece and the Mediterranean: Contemporary geopolitical dynamics and perspectives of peace” organized on Friday December 9, 2016 at the premise of the EPLO in Plaka, Athens.
The main speakers of the conference that was organized in the framework of the celebrations for the “Greek-Russian Year”, were Professor A. A. Gromyko of the Russian Academy of Sciences, grandson of an emblematic personality of the Soviet Union, Andrei Gkromiko, who served the USSR as Minister of Foreign Affairs for 28 years and Professor Ioannis Th. Mazis, of the National and Capodistrian University of Athens.
Τhe Ambassador (ad honorem) Pericles Nearchou as well as the Assistant Professors Kyriakos Nicolaou-Patragas and Konstantinos Gogos commented on the above speeches. A dialogue with the audience followed.
The conference was co-organized by: the Laboratory of Geocultural Analyses of Wider Middle East & Turkey of The National and Capodistrian University of Athens, the Postgraduate Program “Geopolitical Analysis, Geostrategic Synthesis, Defense and International Security Studies”, the European Public Law Organization (EPLO) and the Greek-Russian Club “Dialogos”.
Welcome speeches were given by mr Yiannis Politis, Spokesman of the EPLO, mr Vladimir Maystrenko, Head of the political section, press-secretary of the Russian Federation Embassy in Athens and Dr. Theodore Ignatiadis, President of the Greek-Russian Club "Dialogos".
