Article in the ‘Review 2014 – A Fresh Look at German Foreign Policy’
invited by Dr. Frank-Walter Steinmeier, German Minister of Foreign Affairs, 20 June 2014.
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Moderator of the public debate ‘Creating Jobs: Europe’s biggest challenge after the crisis’
co-organized by the Crisis Observatory of ELIAMEP and the Friedrich Ebert Foundation/ Athens Office, Aegli – Zappeion, 19 June 2014. Speakers were: Prof. Dr. Peter Bofinger, Chair for Monetary Policy and International Economics, University of Würzburg; Member of the German Council of Economic Experts, Mr. Dimitri Papalexopoulos, Vice President, Hellenic Federation of Enterprises (SEV), Prof. Savvas Robolis, Prof. Emeritus, Panteion University; Former Scientific Director of the Trade Union’s Institute of Labour, INE-GSEE and Mr. Dimitris Tsigos, President, YES – European Confederation of Young Entrepreneurs and member of the Hellenic Start-up Association.
Book launch event for the title ‘The Unhappy State of the Union: Europe Needs a New Grand Bargain’ in Thessaloniki
in Cultural-Educational Center G. & H. Krassas, 18 June, 2014
Participation in the Annual Council Meeting of the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR)
Rome, 12-13 June 2014. For more information you may clickhere.
Policy Briefing on ‘The unhappy state of the Union. Time for a new “grand bargain”
organized by the European Policy Centre (EPC) and the Bertelsmann Stiftung, in Brussels on 11 June, on the occassion of his new book‘The Unhappy State of the Union: Europe Needs a New Grand Bargain’. The presentation was followed by a question and answer session jointly chaired by Janis A. Emmanouilidis, EPC Director of Studies, and Thomas Fischer, Executive Director of the Brussels Office of the Bertelsmann Stiftung.
Participation in the expert panel debate with Mr. Joaquín Almunia
Vice-president of the European Commission, in the framework of the conference on‘The EU after the European elections’, organized by the think tank Policy Network, London, 5 June 2014. You may see the programmehere.
Keynote speaker in the debate on ‘State of the Union after the EP elections’
Warsaw, 27 May 2014, on the occasion of the release of the Polish version of‘The Unhappy State of the Union: Europe Needs a New Grand Bargain’.
Participation in the Governance Report 2015 edited volume Authors Workshop
at the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin, May 26, 2014. The main subject of the Governance Report 2015 will be the future of the EU.
Article Η Ευρώπη αμήχανη, σε δύσκολο σταυροδρόμι
Kathimerini newspaper, 26 May 2014
Speech to the members of the Committee of Permanent Representatives in the European Union (COREPER II)
on‘Does Europe Need a New Grand Bargain?’, Zappeio, 22 May 2014. The two-hour debate was coorganized by ELIAMEP and the Permanent Representation of Greece in Brussels. Mr. Janis Emmanouilides, Research Director of the European Policy Centre (EPC) in Brussels (‘The State of the Union and future prospects for European integration’) and Mr. Thanos Dokos, Director General of ELIAMEP (‘Increasing turbulence in Europe’s neighbourhood(s)’) also participated in the debate.