This paper explores the role and importance of the four, closelocated, metropolises of south-eastern Europe (Skopje, Sofia, Thessaloniki and Tirana) and proposes a strategy that promotes metropolitan growth and development, maximizes spread effects to national hinterlands, and advances...

Poverty has been a matter of great academic and political concern for decades. In the recent years, the interest has increased considerably at the European Union level because poverty seems to be a relatively persistent phenomenon and a threat to economic prosperity and social cohesion of the...

This paper provides a detailed account of the drivers behind the economic crisis in Greece, which has destroyed one quarter of the GDP of the economy and has led more than a quarter of labour force to unemployment in a period of five years. The paper claims that a mix of background factors at...