The roundtable discussed new opportunities for development in the Caspian and Central Asian region. The potential of Turkmenistan is unquestionable, and the roundtable contended precisely how it could harness its projected capabilities. It also discussed the unique position of the Central Asian region, how the region can enhance its links with the European Union (EU)
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The favourites for the EU’s top jobs rarely win the prize. Whilst Timmermans and Weber recently ran a pseudo-presidential campaign as Spitzenkandidaten, speculation remains over who will eventually end up as President of the Commission. The irony of this campaign might well be that neither candidates will end up on top. This begs the question:
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With over 60 million Filipinos having casted their votes in a national election of legislators and local executives last week, the outcome became evident early on: President Duterte’s hold on power is only set to strengthen. With most of his personal picks elected as senators and with a House of Representatives dominated by loyalists, it
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Image Credit: Kremlin On April 28, Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin jointly attended a ceremony in the Beijing Friendship Hotel, at which Putin received an honorary doctorate from Tsinghua University. The atmosphere between the two leaders was great as always. The two leaders praised each other highly and reasserted their confidence
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During the eighth China-CEEC leaders’ meeting in April 2019, Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras upgraded the cooperation mechanism between China and Central and Eastern European countries (CEE), known previously as the 16+1 initiative, to 17+1, as Greece joined as a fully-fledged member. The initiative itself serves as the formalisation of China’s strategy for securing and
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Forty years ago, the government of the People’s Republic of China issued a message to the people of Taiwan, indicating that it was no longer pursuing unification mainly through force, but that it preferred and prioritised peaceful means. Today, although President Xi Jinping did not remove the military option from the table in his last
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The 21st EU-China Summit held in Brussels on April 9 has attracted huge public attention. After the summit, in light of the conclusion of a joint statement, both the EU and China appear to have considered proceedings a success. Especially from the EU side, Donald Tusk, President of the European Council, claimed that the negotiations
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On 9 April, the European Institute for Asian Studies had the pleasure of welcoming Dr. Abdul Abiad, Director of the Macroeconomic Research Division at the Asian Development Bank (ADB), to share his insights on the ADB’s latest flagship publication, the Asian Development Outlook 2019 (ADO). To get the event underway, Mr. Erik Famaey, Senior Associate of EIAS, gave a
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The resignation of President Nursultan Nazarbayev, the first and only President the Republic of Kazakhstan has ever had, marks the end of an era for a country that has managed to rise from the status of a disenfranchised former Soviet nation to a prosperous crossroad for a new Silk Road. From the 24th of April
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Financial technology – or FinTech – encapsulates everything related to the emerging digital and financial services sector of recent years. It is an industry where technology and digitalization are used to provide more efficient usage and delivery of financial services. FinTech is about innovation, but it is also about interaction and financial interconnectivity between people.
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