Apostolis Fotiadis

Stories written by Apostolis Fotiadis
Apostolis Fotiadis writes for IPS from Athens. He has been covering political issues, particularly migrants’ rights as well as ethnic conflict and population movement in the Balkans. Since 2004, Fotiadis has also written for the national Greek daily Kathimerini and been published in various other regional newspapers. He received his education in history at Aberdeen University and has an interdisciplinary master’s degree in nationalism. | Twitter |

ALBANIA: A Few Greeks Discover Their Neighbour

By Apostolis Fotiadis

Some years ago most Greeks knew Albania only as an unknown frontier. It was a country from which impoverished migrants crossed into Greece in search of a job and a better life; a place that people were leaving, where nobody wanted to go.

GREECE: Mobile Operators Break the Law

By Apostolis Fotiadis

The small black device that Panagiotis Vovos holds in his hands can measure the voltage produced by mobile phone network transmission antennas. It can detect voltages up to 7(Volt/metre).

ENVIRONMENT-GREECE: Fires Char a Way of Life

By Apostolis Fotiadis

Greece is set to pay an enormous cost after a week of unstoppable inferno, with fires still burning out of control.

BALKANS: Privatisations Pick Up in Kosovo, Privately

By Apostolis Fotiadis

"The Kosovo Trust Agency is now preparing to privatise one of the most remarkable properties remaining in south-eastern Europe - the Dragash Sarrprodhimi socially owned enterprise. Sharrprodhimi offers over 22,000 hectares of largely untouched land...with excellent potential for tourist industry development."

TRADE: Greek Energy Agenda Promises Business to Egypt

By Apostolis Fotiadis

Greece and Egypt are now making good on a two-year-old cooperation agreement to diversify trade relations that could reduce Greece's dependence on traditional - but tenuous - energy supplies from European suppliers like Russia.