Matt Britzman, senior equity analyst, Hargreaves Lansdown: “Global stock markets look set to end a volatile week on a more positive footing, with investor sentiment showing tentative signs of recovery heading…
Foreign Ministers updated on IMO actions related to the situation in the Strait of Hormuz The Secretary-General of the International Maritime Organization (IMO) Mr. Arsenio Dominguez has urged States to…
Diplomacy? Reach for your magnifying glass to see if you can spot any remnants of this once respected and respectable “art.” What’s that got to do with TRUMP’s Tariffs being…
Following our 2025 articles on the Death of Diplomacy: 2026 began with the stealth arrest of Venezuela’s president Nicolás Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores. This was on 3rd January…
Shipping as a tool for Geopolicy by Commodore (HN Rt) Kostas Papachristodoulou Inspired by the article of Mr. John Faraclas Death of Diplomacy Part 12, published in www.allaboutshipping.co.uk at the end of last…
As predicted, and following part 11, slaughtering continues in UKRAINE, the Middle East is still in LIMBO, CHINA and JAPAN are at loggerheads, in the UK an epidemic arises, the…
Good Morning Monaco Saturday, November 22, 2025 Murder in Monaco: Netflix’s New True-Crime Doc Netflix has dropped the trailer for Murder in Monaco, and if you didn’t know better, you’d…
Further to our 5th of October comment… Now comes a new twist in place of what would once be called Diplomacy. Hungary has reportedly been given a one-year exemption from…
by Kostas Papachristodoulou, Commodore (ret) HN, head of Risk & Intelligence at SEA GUARDIAN SG Ltd The articles on www.allaboutahipping.co.uk titled “The Death of Diplomacy” made me think about the…
Following to our 31st of August comment It would take a big stretch of the imagination to characterise President Donald Trump’s purported peace plan for Gaza – and indeed for the…
Good Morning Monaco Thursday, September 25, 2025 Prince Albert II honoured with Foreign Policy Association Medal for ocean advocacy His Serene Highness Prince Albert II was honoured on Monday evening by…
Further to our 16th of August comment… When we entitled this series of comments Death of Diplomacy we intended this as a metaphorical rebuke to wayward governments. This week the…
Continuing our 9th of July script Genuine diplomacy did not get a look-in, but it was a good day for a red carpet. The charade in Alaska seems to have…
Further to our last… Wave after wave of drones descends on Kyiv, not for the first time. And in effect the assault is “waved through” by the so-called international community.…
Following our last a month ago, events, uncertainties and prevarications are swirling fast in the Middle East. But at the time of writing, it looks safe to forecast that there…
Further to previous interviews on ERT’s Voice of Greece – Greeks Everywhere (Ελληνες Παντου) covering Geopolitical and Shipping issues and in particular the ongoing Ukrainian – Russian and Middle East…
Further to our last back on the 8th of April , we are now entering the dire straits… Here we go: Alongside the Death of Diplomacy – and to an…
by John Faraclas Further to part 2, we are faced with undiplomatic and in some cases undemocratic manoeuvres – that the bargaining chips in what one might generously call “the…
by John Faraclas This is the ideal moment to refer again to the Death of Diplomacy following our first comment which coincided with the US elections last November. Situation on…
by John Faraclas Here we are amid two raging wars with despicable repercussions – already, a very messy situation and still in my humble view we are in the beginning…
Good Morning Monaco Thursday, May 11, 2023 Huge triumph for Roca Team as it surprises MaccabiMonaco did it. The basketball players of Roca Team qualified for the Final Four of…
Incompetent diplomats are to blame for failing in giving an end to this despicable tragedy the human race is subjected. From the right beginning last February, we have stressed the…
Who pays the damage with energy? WTI now at US$ 97.12… by John Faraclas The Ukrainian mess which is boiling ever since the annexation of Crimea will not only cost…
Boosting trade relations is high on the agenda of the ambassador of the United Arab Emirates to Denmark. Her Excellency Fatema Khamis Al Mazrouei says that her Copenhagen base is…
Cyprus looks to offshore energy prospects as ‘game-changer, ’ High Commissioner Evriviades tells London Academy of Diplomacy, By James Brewer Exploitation of hydrocarbons around the shores of Cyprus can be…