Belt and Road Initiative

Representatives of 25 national news agencies from Greece, China, the Balkans, Central and Southern Europe, and Russia reaffirmed on Sunday their commitment to join efforts to strengthen ties between the countries along the Belt and Road during a forum hosted in Thessaloniki.

After years of struggling under austerity imposed by its European Union partners and a chilly shoulder from the United States, Greece has embraced the advances of China, its most ardent and geopolitically ambitious suitor.

How many years will it take for China to become a "superpower"? This was the first question that came to my mind when I recently noticed in the supermarket that the even the pumpkin seeds I bought had been imported from China.

The large-scale Saint Sofia development, initially announced in 2014, has been granted the status of priority investment project and will benefit from a number of state-guaranteed incentives for a three-year-project, the state-controlled Invest Bulgaria Agency told BIRN on Tuesday.

BELGRADE - The Chinese Belt and Road initiative is turning from an idea into reality and China is ready to get Serbia involved in the entire project, Zhang Dejiang, chairman of the Standing Committee of China's National People's Congress, said in Belgrade Monday.

"Being a global financial, logistics and trading hub, Hong Kong will continue to play the important role of a 'super-connector' between Slovenia and the Mainland of China.

Serbia and China have traditionally good political relations, which, thanks to the government's policy, grew into an even better economic cooperation.

According to the Serbian government, Minister of Construction, Transport and Infrastructure Zorana Mihajlovic said this on Thursday during an interview for China's CCTV.

China's One Belt, One Road initiative, which involves Beijing underwriting billions of dollars of infrastructure investment in countries along the old Silk Road linking it with Europe, has the potential to transform the Black Sea region in terms of development and economic integration barring geopolitical competition between the big powers in the area, Frans Paul van der Putten, a senior resear