{"id":74183,"date":"2021-05-13T11:29:26","date_gmt":"2021-05-13T15:29:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/?p=74183"},"modified":"2021-05-13T11:29:29","modified_gmt":"2021-05-13T15:29:29","slug":"former-greek-premier-calls-for-bri-to-be-model-of-cooperation-between-china-and-eu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/es\/blog\/2021\/05\/13\/former-greek-premier-calls-for-bri-to-be-model-of-cooperation-between-china-and-eu\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Greek Premier Calls for BRI to Be Model of Cooperation Between China and EU"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">May 12 (EIRNS) &#8212; In an interview with <em>Xinhua,<\/em> former Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou called for the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) to become a project for new relations between the European Union and Asia. \u00abThe Belt and Road Initiative should become a project of new relations, building the new and future relations of the European Union with Asia and of course with China,\u00bb he said. He added that because Greece has \u00abworked closely with China for many years,\u00bb it is in a position to play a role in this effort. \u00abGreece and China, as ancient cultures, have a lot to give not only to each other, but to the world,\u00bb the former prime minister stressed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Papandreou cited China\u2019s Cosco Shipping investment at Piraeus as an example of fruitful cooperation between Greece and China. Piraeus has been transformed into a major trading and transportation hub for goods both ways. In addition to trade, Papandreou said, Greece and China can collaborate in areas such as the environment, tourism, as well as in the exchange of traditional medicinal and wellness knowledge, among others. Papandreou is currently a member of the Greek parliament and the President of the Socialist International (SI). He has consistently called for cooperation with China, despite the positions of other member parties in the SI.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A recent example is a meeting <em>via<\/em> video link between Papandreou and Song Tao, Minister of the International Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC), on April 2, where Papandreou said, \u00abWe need to find ways to lower the tensions around these issues [human rights issues] and actually have a dialogue\u2026 If we get into this tit-for-tat policy, it often escalates. In the zero-sum game, nobody wins or everybody loses it\u00bb. He also praised the successful fight against poverty. As vice chairman of the International Olympic Truce Centre, Papandreou also spoke highly of China\u2019s contribution to the Olympics. \u00abAs a Greek, and also as part of the Olympic movement, we see the Olympics as neutral ground, one which should not be politicalized,\u00bb he said, referring to recent contentions around a range of issues between China and the United States.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May 12 (EIRNS) &#8212; In an interview with Xinhua, former Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou called for the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) to become a project for new relations between the European Union and Asia. \u00abThe Belt and Road Initiative should become a project of new relations, building the new and future relations of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":74184,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[640,520,505,639,718,446],"tags":[842],"class_list":["post-74183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-china","category-updates-development","category-updates","category-global-diplomacy","category-greece","category-updates-bri","tag-lang-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74183"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74194,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74183\/revisions\/74194"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}