Author: Athanasios Koutoupas
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Alexandria Aligned to the Rising Sun
The Macedonian empire builder, who conquered a swathe of territory stretching from Greece to Egypt in the west, to as far as the Indus River in the east, founded the city on Egypt’s Mediterranean coast in 331 BC. This research shows that on Alexander’s birthday the main east-west thoroughfare of the ancient city was in…
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Egypt Pours €360 Million into Renewing Alexandria’s Tram Network
Egypt’s Ministry of Investment and International Cooperation signed a €100 million loan agreement with the French Development Agency (AFD), which will partially finance the project. The upgrading process of the 13.7 kilometers tramline will take up to three years. It aims at increasing the capacity of the tram from 100,000 passengers per day to 230,000. The…
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Greek FM outlines vision for safety and security in Eastern Med
In his address to the participants from 19 countries at the conference, Kotzias said the purpose is the creation of a security structure in the Eastern Mediterranean that will gradually expand further south and east. For the second year running, the conference included European and Arab countries but not countries like Turkey as Athens has…
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JOINT COMMUNIQUÉ-2nd Rhodes Ministerial Conference for Security and Stability “Living and Working together in Peace and Stability” – Rhodes, Greece, 22-23 MAY 2017
The participants, guided by the “Spirit of Rhodes“, as this emerged in 2016, at the 1st Rhodes Informal Ministerial Meeting and was ever since embraced and frequently invoked by states of the regionand other states, deepened their discussions at the 2nd Ministerial Meeting, on major issues of the Eastern Mediterranean. Their dialogue focused on developing…