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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.

Interview to thetoc.gr

on the occasion of the release of the Greek version of‘The Unhappy State of the Union: Europe Needs a New Grand Bargain’(Patakis, 2014), 19 May 2014.

Interview to the radio station Athens 9.84

to Foivos Karzis, 10 May 2014, on the occasion of the release of the new book «Η Δυστυχής Ένωση: Η Ευρώπη χρειάζεται μια νέα μεγάλη συμφωνία», Patakis (in Greek). You may hear the interviewhere(in Greek, in 01.06.00).

Book launch event for the Greek version of the title: ‘The Unhappy State of the Union: Europe Needs a New Grand Bargain’

published by Patakis Publishers, Monday 5 May, at Stoa tou Vivliou. Speakers in the event were Mr Tassos Giannitsis (Former minister, Professor emeritus at the University of Athens), Ms Anna Diamantopoulou (President of DIKTIO-NETWORK for Reform, former European Commissioner and Minister), Mr Kyriakos Mitsotakis (Minister of Administration Reform and e-Governance), Mr George Stathakis (SYRIZA MP and Professor at the University of Crete) and the author. Ms Matina Stevis (correspondent of The Wall Street Journal in Brussels) moderated the discussion. You may read thereport (in Greek)of the event and watch thevideo.

Interview to the radio show of www.ertopen.com

with Pericles Vasilopoulos and Anthony D. Papayiannides, 2 May 2014, on the occasion of the release of the new book «Η Δυστυχής Ένωση: Η Ευρώπη χρειάζεται μια νέα μεγάλη συμφωνία», Patakis (in Greek).

Interview to the Greek newspaper TO VIMA

27 April 2014, on the occasion of the publication of the new book‘The Unhappy State of the Union: Europe Needs a New Grand Bargain’, published by the think tank Policy Network.