They Balked
October 8, 2018 · Magazine, Politics, Greece
The failed Macedonia referendum.
Greece and Mediterranean Correspondent
John Psaropoulos
12 articles 2015–2018
John Psaropoulos is a journalist and correspondent based in Greece who covers politics, economics, and geopolitics in southeastern Europe and the eastern Mediterranean. He contributed reporting and analysis to The Weekly Standard from 2015 to 2018, with a focus on Greek affairs, NATO tensions, Chinese influence in Europe, and energy pipeline politics. He is also known for his work as a broadcaster and editor covering the region.
Pipeline Dreams
October 3, 2018 · Features, Magazine, Foreign Policy
Eastern Mediterranean gas creates new allies—and deepens old enmities
Greece vs. Turkey: Are We Headed for an Intra-NATO War?
March 28, 2018 · Today's Blogs, Turkey, Aegean SEa
Athens
China Ventures into Europe
February 2, 2018 · John Psaropoulos, China, EU
Over the past five years, the State Grid Corporation of China has come close to performing a feat that the European Union, despite its 13 trillion euro economy, has failed at for two decades: create an electricity grid stretching across much of Europe, introducing efficiencies and economies of…
Shipping News
July 31, 2017 · magazine_repost, John Psaropoulos, ports
Athens
Shipping News
July 28, 2017 · John Psaropoulos, ports, China
Athens
Tigers at Bay
May 31, 2017 · magazine_repost, John Psaropoulos, Asia
There is little doubt among economic forecasters that over the medium term, Asia's emerging economies—China and India foremost among them—are expected to drive global economic growth. Taken as one, the region from India to Japan is not only the biggest market for raw materials, energy, and the…
Tigers at Bay
May 26, 2017 · John Psaropoulos, Asia, Books and Art
There is little doubt among economic forecasters that over the medium term, Asia's emerging economies—China and India foremost among them—are expected to drive global economic growth. Taken as one, the region from India to Japan is not only the biggest market for raw materials, energy, and the…
Unlearned Lessons from the Greek Financial Crisis
December 12, 2016 · John Psaropoulos, magazine_repost, Loan
There is hardly a member of the European Union whose past is not more prosperous, secure, expansive, and influential than its present. During every age of European civilization, someone has held the upper hand, and lost it. Perhaps thanks to the maturity that comes of rising and falling, this…
Canary in the Union
December 9, 2016 · John Psaropoulos, Loan, Financial Markets
There is hardly a member of the European Union whose past is not more prosperous, secure, expansive, and influential than its present. During every age of European civilization, someone has held the upper hand, and lost it. Perhaps thanks to the maturity that comes of rising and falling, this…
The Morning After
August 12, 2016 · John Psaropoulos, EU, Greece
George Papaconstantinou has been through hell. His reputation as the finance minister who cowrote and signed Greece’s first bailout agreement with the eurozone in the spring of 2010 cost him his cabinet post the following year and his parliament seat the year after that. He spent the next three…
Greece on the Edge
September 7, 2015 · John Psaropoulos, book reviews, Magazine
When James Angelos embarks on a series of trips to report on the Greek debt crisis, he finds that no one is to blame for it. On Zakynthos, for example, three-quarters of blindness disability beneficiaries were exposed as frauds. The island’s ophthalmologist had liberally handed out certificates of…