Zhyldyz Oskonbaeva
(RIEAS Senior Advisor & Eurasian Liaison)
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No matter how we turn and twist the view; the waves of imperialistic and authoritarian rule appear well hidden behind the numerous treaties and agreements of the European Union.
One of the key factors upon which viable growth can be built is human security. Approaching human security with the requisite attention has been practically absent from the continuing chaotic “debate” on how to address the Greek crisis. 
Tassos Symeonides
(RIEAS Academic Advisor)
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I met Spyros (not his real name) at the Athens international airport on the way to London. Twenty six years old, with two graduate degrees in Math and Business Management, speaking two foreign languages, Spyros was on his way to beginning work for a British multinational that has hired him as a traveling business representative.
In a recent BBC news story, Paul Mason painted a stark picture of a collapsing Greek society and the average Greek’s growing grave doubts about the failed political system. We found this report very much to the point. 
During the past twenty four months, Greece has been subjected to the kind of brutal austerity no other European nation had to endure since 1945.
One of RIEAS’s main targets over the past three years has been to publicize the issue of illegal immigration that has evolved into a long-term threat for this country. Greece has become the holding facility for swarms of mainly Asian and African undocumented aliens, who are daily pushed over an undefended border into Greek territory by neo-Ottoman Turkey.