ATHENS, July 7, 2024 Greece: Energy and Environment Minister Theodoros Skylakakis is on the right track with his approach to Greece’s energy transition plans, a noted regional expert says. “He’s got the…
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Saudi Aramco awards $25bn in contracts for gas expansion
Saudi Aramco, the world’s biggest oil producer, has awarded contracts worth more than $25bn for the second phase of the expansion of its Jafurah gas field and the third phase of expanding…
How Europe can get the Green Deal done
Since the European Green Deal was introduced in 2019, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has touted it as the European Union’s new economic-growth agenda. After all, while the strategy’s core…
Potential Qatar-Greece investment ties seen in energy, high-tech industries
Greece’s economic resurgence with Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis at the helm is seen to open potential Qatari investments in a wide range of sectors, including energy, tourism, and high-tech industries. In an…
Economic development in an age of great-power competition
Now that the United States has introduced a new set of import tariffs on Chinese goods, the world’s two largest economies appear to be on the brink of open economic warfare – and developing…
‘Saudi Aramco in LNG talks with US Tellurian, NextDecade’
Reuters London Oil giant Aramco is in talks with US firms Tellurian and NextDecade on two separate LNG projects as the Saudi firm seeks to boost its gas trading and production, three…
EMIR IN GREECE AND CYPRUS
Political 04.06.24 Interview by ALEXIA TASOULI DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENT POLITICAL.GR NEWSPAPER Athens, Friday 31st of May 2024: Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim Bin Hamad AlThani paid official visits to Cyprus and Greece this week,…
Crunch time for the power sector
Many of us take electricity for granted. We flip a switch and expect the light to turn on. But the capacity and resilience of power systems – generation, transmission, and distribution –…
Only public-private co-operation can accelerate decarbonisation
As countries around the world experienced record temperatures last year, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres declared: “We must turn a year of burning heat into a year of burning ambition.” But to move…
The Psychologist Who Convinced Economists that to Err Is Human
Daniel Kahneman, who passed away in March at the age of 90, received the Nobel Prize in Economics despite having never taken an economics course. Nevertheless, his scholarship reshaped and upended the discipline’s…