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James Costos in conversation with Paloma Castro

15/07/2026

The transatlantic relationship is bigger and more durable than any single administration, and in a more divided, more inward-looking world it matters more, not less. That is the argument James Costos, US Ambassador to Spain and Andorra from 2013 to 2017, makes to Paloma Castro in Ta Nea, tracing the bond not to treaties or geopolitics but to shared democratic values and the millions of people who connect the two sides of the Atlantic. A second-generation Greek American, he sees trust being rebuilt through renewed American leadership and closer work with European allies on artificial intelligence, energy and defence, and reads Greece, by its position and its ties to Washington, as well placed to help shape what comes next.

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Art & Culture CULTURAL DIPLOMACY
Bruno Verjus in TA NEA: "The way we choose to eat determines the world we live in"

20/07/2026

The way we choose to eat determines the world we live in. That is the thesis Paloma Castro follows in Ta Nea, reading Bruno Verzus not as a chef with two Michelin stars but as someone who keeps arriving at the same place a few years before the rest of his profession and waiting, smiling, for it to catch up. His new site shows almost no food at all, turning cooking into thought and image, and the source of that clarity turns out to be a house by the sea in the Mani, between Sparta and the birthplace of Helen, where beauty was never separated from the everyday. The real work of a chef, the piece argues, may finally be not a plate but a sensibility.

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Luxury CULTURAL DIPLOMACY
Agatha Ruiz de la Prada: "In fashion you are never alone – and that is your protection"

10/07/2026

Real luxury is ecology, and colour is a form of seriousness rather than its opposite. That is the thesis Ágatha Ruiz de la Prada defends in conversation with Paloma Castro for Ta Nea's Νουν, moving from her first memory of fashion in Tangier to her attachment to Greek light and her decades spent dressing people, at accessible prices, in more than 150 countries. The veteran Spanish designer reads here less as a subject than as an argument for a way of belonging to the world: in fashion, she insists, you are never alone, and that is your protection.

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Geopolitical EU DIPLOMACY
Financial Times: How drones have changed the nature of war

20.09.25

Explore how drones have transformed modern warfare, with Ukraine leading innovation in drone technology and Europe responding to new geopolitical threats. Discover the impact of AI, drone swarms, and domestic drone production on military power dynamics and the future of combat.

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Economy EU DIPLOMACY
CLOUDS OVER TARIFS: THE ILLUSION OF NEGOTIATION

30/07/2025

Just back from Brussels, Paris, Salzburg,Athens, it feels like the future is arriving faster than any train. Inspired by "Terminator," this edition looks at who really controls the battlefield at the latest round of global trade talks: not the negotiators, but the invisible digital clouds and the energy grids they depend on.

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