ANNUAL REPORT 2017 BUILDING KNOWLEDGE FOR POLICY
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Message from the Director General
2017 has been another year of considerable fluidity and high unpredictability for global and European affairs and of substantial instability in Greece’s extended neighborhood. Our research focused on several areas, including Greece’s role in a changing EU (and NATO), the huge migration challenge for both Greece and Europe, Greece’s foreign policy, with an emphasis on Turkey and its northern neighbors (in the latter there is some mobility in conflict resolution efforts), European integration and religious freedom. In this context, we continued to be quite active in the context of various networks, such as EuroMeSCo and the Mercator European Dialogue and projects, such as FEUTURE and New Pact for Europe. ELIAMEP received an Academy of Athens Award for the publication of its White Book on Greek Foreign Policy, Defence and Security but also for its overall contribution to the Greek and European public dialogue on foreign and European affairs. That honor convinced us that we need to focus more on strategic policy recommendations. Hence two documents are in preparation: an English language updated and revised edition of the White Book and the Greece 2021 National Strategy.
2018, our 30th anniversary, will find us older and wiser. It will be a good time for re-thinking and re-assessing our objectives and research methods and priorities. We are planning a number of initiatives, such as a large EU Simulation exercise for high school students from all over Greece and various conferences. We will be submitting several applications for projects, including a major proposal in the area of conflict prevention, management and resolution, where ELIAMEP has a long tradition and considerable experience, with its Halki International Seminars and the USIP training seminars. Finally, we will be completing our digital infrastructure upgrade and the re-construction of our offices, which will provide us with a larger, state of the art, multi-purpose meeting room. And, as always, we will be trying to identify and attract promising young scholars.
Thanos Dokos
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Milestones
Academy of Athens gives award to ELIAMEP
Following the publication of ELIAMEP White Book on Greek Foreign Policy, Defence and Security, the Academy of Athens gave an award to the Foundation. President of ELIAMEP, Professor Loukas Tsoukalis received the prize on 21 December 2017.
Professor Loukas Tsoukalis said after the ceremony:
‘This prize is a great honor and recognition of ELIAMEP’s work in the last 30 years. Congratulations to all his members, associates and friends’.
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RESEARCH
European Integration
The ‘A. G. Leventis Foundation Research Chair’ is a new research programme focusing on European political economy issues of Greek interest. The Chair is funded by the A.G. Leventis Foundation and has been in operation since October 2017.
The New Pact for Europe Greek National Report is available here.
Migration
The “Mapping the training needs of beneficiaries of international protection and the existing mechanisms for training provision in five EU Member States (with focus on women)” National project report published.
ELIAMEP participates in H2020 funded project “CEASEVAL - Evaluation of the Common European Asylum System under Pressure and Recommendations for Further Development”.
Security and Regional Developments
The publications of the project “Public Debate: Let’s Talk About Security” are now available.
ELIAMEP is among the first research institutes to host a project funded by Marie Sklodowska Curie Actions- Individual Fellowships- Horizon 2020 Programme- in Social Sciences and Humanities.
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Research Projects – European Integration
Directions in Religious Pluralism in Europe: Examining Grassroots Mobilisations in the Shadow of European Court of Human Rights Religious Freedom Jurisprudence (GRASSROOTSMOBILISE)
During 2017, Grassrootsmobilise’s fourth and penultimate year, the team’s focus was on drawing all fieldwork to a close, filling any remaining gaps in the data required for our analyses on the individual country cases, across the four cases, and within certain preselected themes, and moving into the main phase of dissemination of our research results. Effie Fokas also began a second round of interviews in the context of her research on ‘grasstops mobilizations’. Project Duration: 2014-2018 Funding agency: European Commission, European Research Council (ERC) Events 10-11 February, 2017 - Athens, Greece Grassrootsmobilise team’s 8th Research Meeting.
21 February, 2017 - Hellenic Observatory, London School of Economics (LSE), London Presentation by Effie Fokas and Margarita Markoviti on religious pluralism and education in Greece.
14 March, 2017 - Department of Sociology, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona Margarita Markoviti presented her recent research on ‘The Limits of Religious Diversity in the Public Sphere: Freedom of Religious Expression and Worship in the city of Athens’.
12 April, 2017 - Centre for Research and Studies in Sociology (CIES), University Institute of Lisbon Alberta Giorgi was invited to present her research on ‘The political impact of the European Court of Human Rights – religious movements’ grassroots mobilizations’.
4 May, 2017 - Association for the Study of Nationalities (ASN) World Convention, Harriman Institute, Columbia University, New York Margarita Markoviti and Ceren Ozgul presented aspects of their research relating to religious minorities and the ECtHR, with presentations on ‘The ECtHR as a venue for Greco-Turkish relations: The Treaty of Lausanne and the Muslim Minority in Western Thrace’ and ‘Religious Minorities without Legal Status: The Lausanne Treaty and the Right to Property Cases against Turkey in the ECtHR’ respectively.
7 May, 2017 - ‘The Kokkinakis Papers: Taking Stock of 25 years of ECHR Jurisprudence on Freedom of Religion or Belief‘ Conference, Central European University, Budapest Effie Fokas presented her Grassrootsmobilise-based research on ‘Kokkinakis at the Grassroots Level’.
9 May, 2017 - Institute for East European Studies, Freie Universität Berlin Mihai Popa shared aspects of his research in a presentation entitled ‘Towards a Pro- Family Constitution: Dynamics of State-Religion Relations and Citizen Mobilization in Present-day Romania’.
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9-10 June 2017 - Workshop on ‘Religious freedom and the varieties of religious establishment’, Lichtenberg-Kolleg, Georg-August-Universität, Göttingen Effie Fokas presented a paper on ‘Religion and national identity on trial: the impact of the ECtHR on religious freedom at the grassroots level’.
5-7 July 2017 - International Society of Public Law (ICON-S) Annual Meeting, University of Copenhagen Grassrootsmobilise Panel on ‘The European Court of Human Rights at the Grassroots Level: Exploring the Court’s Role in Governing Religious Pluralism on the Ground’.
20 July, 2017 - Centre for Citizenship, Social Pluralism and Religious Diversity, University of Potsdam Mihai Popa discussed aspects of his Grassrootsmobilise research in his presentation entitled ‘Battlefield Romania: Activist Struggles for the Meaning of “Family” at the Interface between Legal Pluralism and Social Diversity’.
29 August – 1 September, 2017 - European Sociological Association (ESA) Conference, Panteion University of Social and Political Science and Harokopio University, Athens, Greece Alberta Giorgi shared her research on ‘Constraints and opportunities of ‘judicialization’: religious organizations’ mobilizations and the European Court of Human Rights’.
31 August – 3 September, 2017 - American Political Science Association (APSA) Annual Meeting, San Francisco Grassrootsmobilise Panel on ‘Measuring Legitimacy at the Grassroots: Mobilizations in the Shadow of the ECtHR’. Grassrootsmobilise independent session with a number of distinguished academics also participating in the APSA conference and working on or around related issues.
24 September, 2017 - Thessaloniki Museum of Photography, Thessaloniki Margarita Markoviti presented aspects of her research as part of the panel on ‘Religious Pluralism Now: Politics, Challenges, Success Stories’.
Publications Religious Pluralism and Education in Greece’, Effie Fokas and Margarita Markoviti (LSE Hellenic Observatory blog, 1 March 2017) ‘Kokkinakis at the Grassroots Level’, Effie Fokas (Religion & Human Rights, 2017, 12(2-3), 210-222)) ‘God’s advocates: The multiple fronts of the war on blasphemy in Greece’, Effie Fokas (In eds. J.Temperman and A.Koltay, Blasphemy and Freedom of Expression: Comparative, Theoretical and Historical Reflections after the Charlie Hebdo Massacre, 2017) Journal Special Issue: The European Court of Human Rights and Minority Religions (Religion, State and Society, 2017, 45(3-4)): ‘The European Court of Human Rights and minority religions: messages generated and messages received’, Effie Fokas & James T. Richardson ‘The European Court of Human Rights at the Grassroots Level: who knows what about religion at the ECtHR, and to what effects?’, Effie Fokas ‘The ‘filtering effects’ of ECtHR case law on religious freedoms: legal recognition and places of worship for religious minorities in Greece’, Margarita Markoviti ‘‘Genuine’ religions and their arena of legitimation in Italy – the role of the ECtHR’, Alberta Giorgi & Pasquale Annicchino
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‘Legal provisions, courts, and the status of religious communities: a socio-legal analysis of inter-religious relations in Romania’, Mihai Popa & Liviu Andreescu ‘Beyond legal victory or reform: the legal mobilisation of religious groups in the European Court of Human Rights’, Ceren Ozgul 'The Legal Status of Religious Minorities: exploring the impact of the European Court of Human Rights', Effie Fokas (Social Compass, 2017, 1-18) Journal Special Issue: Religion and Education in the Shadow of the ECtHR, Politics and Religion (in progress) Edited Volume: The European Court of Human Rights for Religious and Non-religious minorities (in progress).
Media Links: www.grassrootsmobilise.eu
Fiscal Policy of the EU (Δημοσιονομική Πολιτική της ΕΕ)
The objective of the project is to examine the forthcoming changes in the context and governance of the European fiscal policy. Special emphasis is given on the macroeconomic and redistribution impact for Greece. The research involves the following activities: Primary and secondary data collection and processing. Literature Review. Writing up the final report. Preparation of quantitative analysis (in the form of graphs and tables). Preparation of a report to be submitted in Bank of Greece. Project Duration: 2017-2018 Funding agency: Bank of Greece
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Crisis-Equity Democracy for Europe and Latin America (CRISEULA)
The objective of the project is the comparative analysis of crisis and crisis management alongside with its social and democratic implications, in Europe and Latin America. The research involves the following activities: Research and teaching on EU crisis management, equity and democracy; Compare experiences in LA and EU; Comparatively analyse the impact of crisis, EU crisis response on integration and regionalism; Create an EU-Brazil network for cultural exchange, knowledge transfer and building; Connect it into IRI’s Latin America networks and co-organise events to further stimulate EU research in LA; Collaborate with EU institutions and regional developments banks, Brazilian and Latin American regional institutions, social movements and media, to engage their active participation in 6 events and establish an international consortium of global players on crisis response; Towards a Citizens’ Union
Elaborate policy recommendations on(2CU) financial, economic and political governance responding to contemporaryTowards challenges; a Citizens’ Union (2CU) The project Increase is geared the public towards awareness enhancing on regional the knowledge and bi-regional and debate issues contributing about the European to integrationcreate project peer andpressures the role for of regional citizens. and Within bi-regional and beyond cooperation. a network of renowned policy Theinstitutes project specialising is geared in towards EU affairs, enhancing the partners the knowledge intend to enhance and debate (i) participatory about the European and (ii) integrationrepresentativeProject Duration: project democracy and2016-2019 the androle (iii)of citizens. accountability Within inand the beyond EU, and a network thereby of strive renowned “Towards policy a Citizens’ Union” (2CU). Fundinginstitutes agency:specialising European in EU affairs,Commission, the partners Erasmus+ intend Programme to enhance (i) participatory and (ii) representative democracy and (iii) accountability in the EU, and thereby strive “Towards a 2CUCitizens’ fosters Union” the (2CU).dialogue between the academic world and policy-makers and to build bridges In the context of the project activities, two of the six, in total, outreach events (events, between different communities. The defined target group captures a wide cross-section of workshops, conferences, debates and authors’ meetings, 3 in Brazil and 3 in EU countries: 2CUinterlocutors, fosters the e.g. dialogue other thinkbetween tankers, the academic academics, world politicians, and policy-makers national andand EU-levelto build bridges policy- makers,Italy, Greece, representatives Belgium) of were civil society held with organisations the participation (CSOs), ofand D. journalists. Katsikas, Head of Crisis Observatory.between different communities. The defined target group captures a wide cross-section of interlocutors, e.g. other think tankers, academics, politicians, national and EU-level policy- Themakers, project representatives Awill kick be offcarried Meeting of out civil wasby society a organisedconsortium organisations on of 6 th19 June partners.(CSOs), 2017 andin Brussels, journalists. Belgium. An international seminar on “Crises and Institutions in Latin America and Europe” ProjectThe project Duration: tookwill be place carried 2017-2020 on 30outth byOctober a consortium 2017, in of Sao 19 Paolopartners. Brazil. TheFunding results agency: will be presented Erasmus+ to Jean the EUMonnet institutions, actions national2017 authorities, Latin American regional Project Duration: 2017-2020 institutions and RIBEI and CELAC. Funding agency: Erasmus+ Jean Monnet actions 2017 Media Links: https://monnet-crisis-network.eu/
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Towards a Citizens’ Union (2CU)
The project is geared towards enhancing the knowledge and debate about the European integration project and the role of citizens. Within and beyond a network of renowned policy institutes specialising in EU affairs, the partners intend to enhance (i) participatory and (ii) representative democracy and (iii) accountability in the EU, and thereby strive “Towards a Citizens’ Union” (2CU). 2CU fosters the dialogue between the academic world and policy-makers and to build bridges between different communities. The defined target group captures a wide cross-section of interlocutors, e.g. other think tankers, academics, politicians, national and EU-level policy- makers, representatives of civil society organisations (CSOs), and journalists. The project is carried out by a consortium of 19 partners. Project Duration: 2017-2020 Funding agency: European Commission, Erasmus+ Programme
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From research to policy through raising awareness of the state of the art on social media and convergence
(COMPACT)
COMPACT seeks to increase awareness on the state of the art in terms of research on social media and convergence, regulatory approaches concerning social media, and related pre- standardisation and coordination activities. The project started in October 2017 with the main purpose to stimulate debate among key stakeholders and diffuse best practices and innovative ideas. At the kick-off meeting of the project, which took place in Brussels on 7-8 December 2017, project partners had the opportunity to discuss and clarify the project’s work plan, its activities and dissemination strategy. Besides work on the project’s branding, management scheme and interaction with other media-related projects which are funded by the EU, the first months of the project were devoted to planning, designing and starting research on three key project reports: a) a report on the state of the art on research on social media and convergence; b) a report on current policies and regulatory frameworks concerning media and convergence; and c) a report on national courts, social media and convergence. Project Duration: 2017-2020 Funding agency: European Commission, Horizon 2020 Programme
Media Links: http://compact-media.eu/objectives-social-media-and-convergence/
Taking a Reflexive approach to Gender Equality for institutional Transformation (TARGET)
TARGET aims to initiate institutional change in seven gender equality innovating institutions (GEIIs) in the Mediterranean basin – including research performing organisations (RPOs), research funding organisations (RFOs) and a network of universities. TARGET takes a reflexive approach which goes beyond the formal adoption of a gender equality plan by emphasizing an iterative reflection of progress made as well as establishing a community of practice to effect institutional transformation. Actual change is the result of increased institutional willingness and capacity to identify, reflect on and address gender bias in a sustained way. ELIAMEP’s role in the TARGET project: As an established research and policy institute in Greece and in Europe, ELIAMEP is a partner among the consortium organisations that have committed to formulating and adopting a Gender Equality Plan (GEP) – the first research and innovation organisation in Greece to do so. While it is a relatively small organisational entity (in terms of scientific and administrative staff), ELIAMEP is the center of a larger research community that includes a wide network of its researchers who are also affiliated with different Greek universities, links with many research and funding organizations in Greece and abroad, and a large number of trainees and external collaborators. ELIAMEP is the consortium partner responsible for developing policy recommendations for promoting gender equality in research and innovation institutions. To ensure that action taken has a multiplier effect, ELIAMEP will also undertake targeted dissemination activities to initiate a national/regional discourse on gender equality in Research & Innovation. Project Duration: 2017-2020 Funding agency: European Commission, Horizon 2020 Programme Media Links: http://www.gendertarget.eu/
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Research Projects - Migration
Enhancing the Integration of Women, Beneficiaries of International Protection by Development and Implementation of Multifaceted Integration Trainings (INTEGRA-TRAIN)
In the context of increasing refugee inflows in the European continent it becomes highly relevant to implement practical actions responding to existing gaps in migrant/refugee integration across the EU member states. This project aims to strengthen the integration of women beneficiaries of international protection via the development and implementation of integration training. This aim will be achieved by way of transferring knowledge and experience from member states with longer experience in refugee integration (Spain and Italy) to countries with weaker and less developed integration structures (Bulgaria, Greece and Malta) which are entry points for newcomer refugees and migrants. In view of the unforeseen high numbers of incoming migrants and asylum seekers in Europe the conduct of context-specific orientation courses to facilitate familiarization with the new social, legal, political and cultural environment of member states becomes crucial for fostering the overall integration process that takes course in the longer run.
Project Duration: 2017- 2018 Funding Agency: European Commission, Directorate-General Migration and Home Affairs
Events A study visit in Rome, Italy, on 16-19 May 2017. A study visit in Barcelona, Spain on 12-14 July 2017. A train-the trainers seminar (agenda – LINK – name of archive – SOFIA) in Sofia, Bulgaria on 29 November-1 December 2017.
Publications
Mapping the training needs of beneficiaries of international protection and the existing mechanisms for training provision in five EU Member States (with focus on women)
Media Links: ELIAMEP website
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Evaluation of the Common European Asylum System under Pressure and Recommendations for Further Development (CEASEVAL)
The issue of migration and the development of the Common European Asylum System (CEAS) are key issues of interest in the European Union, especially since the outbreak of the refugee crisis in 2015. The European Union has embarked on a process of reforming its migration policy through the 2015 European Agenda on Migration and revising the CEAS, which, failed to adequately respond to the ‘stress’ of the refugee crisis has brought to the fore the vulnerabilities and inadequacies of the System rendering, therefore, imperative the need for its revision. The CEASEVAL project seeks to explore the current system and trace the harmonization process across the Member States as well as to evaluate its successful and/or unsuccessful implementation. The main goal of the research project is to submit policy recommendations for the revision of the Common European Asylum System (CEAS).
Project Duration: 2017-2019 Funding Agency: European Commission, Horizon 2020 Programme
Events
Research Workshop on the empirical elements, ICMPD 16/17 April IMISCOE 15th Annual Conference: “Europe, migrations and the Mediterranean: human mobilities & intercultural challenges”, 2-4/7/18, Barcelona
Publications
State-of-the-art report on public attitudes, political discourses and media coverage on the arrival of refugees
Review and Analysis of Recent Literature on the Common European Asylum System
Baseline study on access to protection, reception and distribution of asylum seekers and the determination of asylum claims in the EU
Media Links: http://ceaseval.eu/
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Enhancing Visibility of the Academic Dialogue on EU-Turkey Cooperation (VIADUCT)
In the first six months of 2015 more than 100,000 migrants crossed the Mediterranean. The historical complexity and volatility of EU-Turkey relations are reflected by research and teaching in this field. There are international research projects as well as many smaller and nationally funded studies and projects dealing with Turkey, including its relationship with the EU. Linking these different projects, diffusing knowledge on the European Integration process and exploiting synergies between international players constitutes real added-value for European Integration studies. To this end, VIADUCT builds a large network with partner institutions in every EU member state, Turkey and the neighbourhood extending its outreach in research and teaching beyond the EU.
Project Duration: 2017-2020 Funding agency: European Commission, ERASMUS+ Programme
Events VIADUCT Steering Group Meetings First Annual VIADUCT Conference held in Brussels
Publications First VIADUCT Teaching Paper
Media Links: www.viaduct.uni-koeln.de
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Research Projects – Security & Regional Developments
ELIAMEP Public Debate: ‘Let’s Talk About Security’
The Hellenic Foundation for European & Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP) launched a new online discussion on critical security issues. The views of Greek and international scholars and policymakers will be published on this website in order to enhance the ongoing debate and raise public awareness. This is the continuation of a pilot research project implemented from September 2016 until December 2016 in cooperation with the Greek opinion-making newspaper- Kathimerini. The project is carried out in collaboration with newspaper TA NEA.
Project Duration: 2017 Funding agency: NATO Public Diplomacy Programme
Publications
Radicalisation Dr Rosa Vasilaki: ‘How can the radicalisation phenomenon be explained? ‘(in Greek) Triantafyllos Karatrantos: ‘Radicalisation after ISIS/DAESH and challenges for Europe‘ (in Greek) Dr Dimitris Skleparis: ‘Explaining the absence of Islamist terrorist attacks and radicalisation in Greece‘
New World Order? [In collaboration with newspaper ΤΑ ΝΕΑ] Dr Thanos Dokos, Introduction (in Greek) Dr Roman Gerodimos, ‘A strategic vacuum’ (in Greek) Dr Elena Lazarou, ‘The new world order and dilemmas of the 21st century’ (in Greek) Dr Stella Ladi, ‘Europe’s regions critical for its future’ (in Greek) Dr George Tzogopoulos, ‘Globalization, Trump and China’ (in Greek)
Challenges for the South [In collaboration with newspaper ΤΑ ΝΕΑ] Dr Thanos Dokos, Introduction (in Greek) Dr Angelos Syrigos, ‘Τhe position of Turkey is changing’ (in Greek) Dr Dimitris Triantaphyllou, ‘Rethinking the Eastern Mediterranean‘ Dr Ioannis Grigoriadis, ‘‘Security in the Middle East and the Kurdish referendum’ (in Greek) Dr Panagiotis Tsakonas, ‘Greece and instability in the Mediterranean’ (in Greek)
Media Links: http://www.eliamep.gr/en/activity/lets-talk-about-security/
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The Future of EU-Turkey Relations: Mapping Dynamics and Testing Scenarios (FEUTURE)
The EU and Turkey face mounting challenges both in relation to one another and internationally. The EU has recently been confronted with a series of crises predominant of which are the financial and migration crisis. These developments as well as the Brexit- question are likely to make differentiation a growing phenomenon. On the other hand, Turkey faces polarisation between different political forces, the state and civil society. The neighbourhood is unravelling to the East and South and a power shift is under way at global level. This places EU-Turkey relations in a fundamentally new context. Against this backdrop, FEUTURE’s research aims to: map the dynamics of EU-Turkey relations as to underlying narratives and thematic drivers; substantiate most-likely future scenario(s) and assess its implications; draw policy recommendations.
FEUTURE provides excellence and pursues an ambitious, inspiring and innovative programme in a three-phased structure of elaboration, exploration and extrapolation. It applies an inter-temporal, interdisciplinary and international approach by analysing drivers within six thematic dimensions (politics, security, economics, energy, migration, identity) and across four levels of analysis (EU, Turkey, neighbourhood, global). FEUTURE integrates new knowledge and tests the implications of 3 ideal-type future scenarios for EU-Turkey relations: conflict, cooperation and convergence. ELIAMEP acts as a partner in the implementation of FEUTURE project.
Project Duration: 2016 –2019 Funding agency: European Union, Horizon 2020 Programme
Events FEUTURE Mid-term Conference "EU-Turkey Relations: Game (not) over?" TRIANGLE & FEUTURE PhD Workshop First FEUTURE Lecture
Publications EU-Turkey relations from a Greek perspective The Moscow-Ankara Energy Axis and the Future of EU-Turkey Relations
Media Links: https://www.feuture.uni-koeln.de/de/
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FYROM and South East Europe
The project aims to foster dialogue and cooperation between Greece and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.
Project Duration: 2017 Funding Agency: Institute for the Study of Human Rights, Columbia University
Publications
A new Balkan rapprochement. Skopje accepts Sofia’s positions allowing for bilateral relations to move forward The formation of the new government in Skopje, led by Zoran Zaev, in May 2017, has set in motion a series of important developments in the relations between FYROM and Bulgaria. ELIAMEP Briefing Note examines the recent rapprochement between the two countries centered around the Treaty of Friendship, Good Neighborhood and Cooperation, signed in 1 August 2017
New politics by the new FYROM government?
In his Working Paper Ambassador (retired) Alexandros Mallias analyses the perspectives for improving the relations between Greece and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia the day after the formation of a new Government in Skopje. Alexandros Mallias, who was first Head of Mission of Greece to Skopje, 1995-1999, suggests that the two governments should not raise high expectations. They should work to enhance and expand the Confidence Building Measures’ Process and rather opt for a quiet diplomacy on the name issue He stresses that FYROM’s 1991 Constitution is a bad one, being the root cause of problems with its neighbors as well as of the endemic interethnic conflict. It was already amended 30 (thirty) times within 15 years. He is of the opinion that there are still some extra miles to go.
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FYROM and Greece: Confidence Building Measures- view from civil-society
The name dispute between FYROM and Greece has deeply affected almost all segments of academic/scientific cooperation and generally civil society interaction. As a result, the civil societies of the two countries have not managed to date to build strong channels of unofficial communication and collaboration that would be instrumental in helping official diplomatic channels between the two countries. At the same time, the two countries have as of recent initiated a process of Confidence Building Measures (CBMs) with the hope that cooperation in ‘low politics’ and among civil society actors will strengthen the otherwise weak and problematic bilateral relations. In this context, the main purpose of the proposed project will be to contribute to enhancing relations between Athens and Skopje by investigating and assessing areas of existing cooperation, providing ‘lessons learned’ from it as well as proposing ways through which civil society collaboration could be strengthened in the future.
Project Duration: 2017 Funding Agency: Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Sweden
Publications Greece and FYROM: The Experience of Cooperation in the Fields of EU Funded Cross- Border Projects and Higher Education and What Does it Mean for the Future
This report is the output of the project focusing on relations between Greece and FYROM, funded by the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Sweden, and implemented by Analytika (Skopje) and ELIAMEP. The two teams from Athens/Thessaloniki and Skopje had a joint planning and methods workshop. During that workshop the scope of the investigation was agreed upon, the data to be collected and the method of analysis were initially discussed and the preliminary list of projects to be studied was made. After this planning workshop, however, each side was alone in deciding the details of the data collection and analysis and in conducting the actual analysis itself. The partners did not also have the opportunity to discuss project results.
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Research Projects – Other
Europe Direct ELIAMEP
Europe Direct Information Centre at ELIAMEP belongs to a pan-European network of Information Centres set-up and co-financed by the European Commission. Its purpose is to bring the European union closer to its citizens by providing them with multifaceted and comprehensive information on any European issue and by raising awareness on EU-related matters at the local and national level.
Project Duration: 2013- 2018 Funding Agency: European Commission
Europe Direct ELIAMEP directs citizens that contact the centre about a European issue, to the appropriate sources of information and competent authorities at a national and European level. It also organises information activities and campaigns on European issues (Workshops, Seminars, Lectures, Conferences etc).
During 2017, Europe Direct ELIAMEP organized 5 events for more than 400 students and teachers of primary and secondary education and 4 conferences attended by over 400 persons. It also actively participated in 6 events organised by third parties in Greece and abroad. The Centre researched and answered almost 100 questions submitted by citizens to its helpdesk. It published more than 820 new posts on its official website, which received over 20,000 visits throughout the year. In 2017 it has strengthened its image in the social media by having 3.197 likes on Facebook, 476 followers on Twitter and 224 followers on Instagram.
Media Links: http://europedirect.eliamep.gr/ https://www.facebook.com/ediceliamep/ https://twitter.com/EDICELIAMEP https://www.instagram.com/EDICELIAMEP/
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Marie Sklodowska Curie Actions- Individual Fellowship
Architectural replicas in the scramble for the past: Politics of identity in Istanbul, Athens, Skopje (REPLICIAS)
In Southeastern Europe, architectural heritage has often been recruited to the service of politics. Shared layers of history (for example the Hellenistic, Roman and Ottoman eras among others) have been split among competing historiographies and, in a period marked by crisis, rising nationalism and ‘East-West’ dilemmas, remain in the core of heated debates. Anchored on on-going projects in three cities in the region, this research explores the ways heritage is claimed through its physical reproduction, a topic barely researched until now. Replicas of all sizes – ranging from the urban scale down to the artefact – get involved in political and economic agendas and often ignite reactions from various social, political and national groups inside and outside the countries where they are located. In some cases this corresponds to a recurring wave of revivalism, resulting to large replica buildings installed in the heart of the city, such as in Istanbul (where the reconstruction of the barracks on Taksim square led to the Gezi riots in 2013) or in Skopje (‘Skopje 2014’ project). In other occasions the production of copies is politicised on a smaller scale, such as in the case of the copy of “Alexander’s Sarcophagus” at the Skopje Archaeological Museum or the copies of the missing Parthenon Sculptures at the New Acropolis Museum. Project Duration: 2017- 2019 Funding Agency: European Commission, Horizon 2020 Programme Events ‘Skopje 2014’ and the return of history_ Conference ‘Unknown Balkans’ On June 2-3, 2017, Dr. Kalliopi Amygdalou presented the first findings of REPLICIAS at the conference ‘Unknown Balkans’, in Athens, co-organised by ELIAMEP, Inter Alia and KFOS. Presentations REPLICIAS on SKAI TV TV-programme ‘Istories’ with Tasos Telloglou REPLICIAS travelled to Skopje with journalist Tasos Telloglou and camera operator Apostolos Nikolaidis within the context of the TV programme ‘Istories’ that dedicated an episode on ‘Skopje 2014’. Together with other architects and stakeholders in the city, Kalliopi Amygdalou was interviewed on the multiple heritages of the city and the challenges they face.
Media Links: http://www.replicias.eu/
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Research Programmes
Crisis Observatory (Το Παρατηρητήριο για την Κρίση - Dimitris Katsikas, Head)
The Crisis Observatory is an initiative of the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP), created in 2013 with the support of the “Stavros Niarchos” Foundation. The Crisis Observatory provides information and analysis of the problems that led to the crisis in Greece, as well as the crisis management policies, and their consequences until today, presented in a format that is simple, comprehensible and appealing to the general public. During five years of operation, the Observatory has received considerable recognition from both the research community and the wider public. The Observatory has an active presence in the social media, seeking to approach the younger generation in particular, through the organisation of public events and especially its Annual Conference, attracting a large number of young people.
In 2017 the Observatory continued its multifaceted activities’ programme, with a special emphasis on new research. In 2017, the Observatory was awarded two new research programmes and assumed the responsibility for the operation of a new Research Chair at ELIAMEP. More specifically, since May 2017, the Crisis Observatory participates in the bi- regional research programme Jean Monnet Network “Crisis-Equity-Democracy for Europe and Latin America”, whose aim is the comparative study of crisis and crisis management in Europe and Latin America. Moreover, the Crisis Observatory was assigned a new research project by the Bank of Greece, on the ‘Fiscal Policy in the European Union”. The project was launched in June 2017 and the research phase was concluded in December 2017. Finally, the Observatory runs the ‘A. G. Leventis Foundation Research Chair’, a new research programme focusing on European political economy issues of Greek interest. The Chair is funded by the A.G. Leventis Foundation and has been in operation since October 2017. As part of the Chair’s activities a research project entitled “Reforms in Public Administration during the crisis: Review, Description, Evaluation” is carried out for the period 2017-18. In the events programme, the Observatory organized a discussion on “Economic Recovery after Depression: Historical and International Experience”. The event was held in February at the offices of the Representation of the European Commission in Greece and featured as main speaker Dr. Andres Solimano, founder and president of the International Center for Globalisation and Development. On the publications front, 2017 saw the Observatory’s first book publication. In September the book “Understanding the Greek Crisis: Answers to Key Questions about the State, the Economy and Europe” (in Greek), edited by Dimitris Katsikas, Kyriakos Filinis and Marianthi Anastasatou, was published by Papazisis publications. The book is the culmination of an initiative that originally started in 2014, with an online series of texts on key questions about the Greek crisis, which was materialized with the cooperation of Huffington Post in Greece. The book includes longer, updated and re-worked versions of the originals texts, as well as completely new texts from recognized academics and researchers.
Media Links: http://www.eliamep.gr/en/topics/observatory/
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South-East Europe Programme ( Ioannis Armakolas, Head)
The South-East Europe Programme of the Hellenic Foundation for European & Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP) was set up in 2011. Research and policy analysis on Balkan affairs has a long tradition in ELIAMEP going back to its founding in 1988. The Programme intends to follow that legacy of high quality scholarly and policy work. The South-East Europe Programme publishes policy analyses and research findings through the standard publishing outlets of ELIAMEP. It also reaches wider audiences by publishing short articles and op-eds in prominent Greek and international media and its news are communicated to several thousand subscribers through the mailing lists of ELIAMEP and the South-East Europe Programme as well as through social media. Last but not least, the South-East Europe Programme is associated with the Southeast European and Black Sea Studies journal, which is published by ELIAMEP in partnership with Taylor & Francis publishers.
Media Links: South-East Europe Programme
Research Fellowships Stavros Costopoulos Research Fellowship (2007 - )
Fellowship funded by the J.F. Costopoulos Foundation and awarded by ELIAMEP to distinguished researchers in the field of European and International Studies.
In the context of ELIAMEP’s South-East Europe Programme, Dr Ioannis Armakolas, Stavros Costopoulos Fellow for the academic year 2016-2017, led or coordinated research on a number of projects.
The projects covered the following topics: a) Investigating social attitudes between Greece and FYROM, b) Evaluating cross-border cooperation between Greece and FYROM in the fields of EU projects and higher education, c) Addressing negative stereotypes in the Southern Balkans.
Dr. Ioannis Armakolas also organised a number of public and closed events in Athens, Thessaloniki and Sofia. A major conference Two-day tribute to the "Unknown Balkans" was organized in Athens in July 2017. Attendees were able to discuss with more than 25 speakers (academics, diplomats, journalists and politicians) coming from EU and Western Balkans, on issues related to the region of Southeast Europe, with particular emphasis on Kosovo, FYROM and Bosnia and Herzegovina. Besides the conference panels, there were two short films and photo exhibitions as well, with pictures from the 3 countries. Moreover, Dr. Armakolas was a key member of the organization committee of a conference co-organised by the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office, ELIAMEP and Oxford University in Thessaloniki. The conference focused the current state of political and security affairs in the Western Balkans. Also, was among the co-organisers on a closed workshop on the Western Balkans, organized
ANNUAL BUILDING REPORT KNOWLEDGE FOR 2017 POLICY in Sofia and co-hosted by Friedrich Ebert Stiftung and ELIAMEP. Dr. Ioannis Armakolas co- hosted or co-organised a number of public activities for the presentation of research project findings, launch of new reports and other opportunities. This included the presentation of one report on the opinion poll findings on the name issue and on cross-border cooperation between Greece and FYROM. ELIAMEP also organized a public event and talk by EU Commissioner for Neighbourhood Policy and Accession Negotiations (NEAR) Johanness Hahn.
Overall, over the period in question, Dr. Ioannis Armakolas presented at conferences and workshops in more than 15 events in Athens, Thessaloniki, Brussels, Berlin-Brandenburg, Ljubljana, Krakow, Sofia, Pristina on various aspects of Greek foreign policy and the politics and security of the Western Balkans. With regards to the journal ‘Southeast European and Black Sea Studies’, Ioannis Armakolas continued to run all academic and administrative affairs of the journal and to coordinate the editorial process.
A. G. Leventis Foundation Research Chair (2017 - )
The ‘A. G. Leventis Foundation Research Chair’ is a new research programme focusing on European political economy issues of Greek interest. The Chair is funded by the A.G. Leventis Foundation and has been in operation since October 2017. As part of the Chair’s activities a research project entitled “Reforms in Public Administration during the crisis: Review, Description, Evaluation” is carried out for the period 2017- 2018.
The objective of the project is to document the “horizontal” reforms in Public Administration as requested in the three Greek Economic Adjustment Programmes, the juxtaposition with the relevant reforms implemented in the Greek legislation and their evaluation. More specifically the programme objectives are:
The assessment of the implementation of the reforms. Evaluation of the reforms’ impact. Overall evaluation of the progress made in the functioning of the public administration and identification and analysis of the obstacles encountered The project is coordinated by Professor Calliope Spanou, of the Department of Political Science and Public Administration of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. Vangelis Arvanitis, PhD candidate in the Department of Economic Science of the University of Thessaly supports the activities of the Research Chair, while Dimitris Katsikas, Head of Crisis Observatory coordinates the programme.
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Events
Public Discussion, ‘Μedia Conference: “EaP: Pluralism in Greece: Looking beyond the Appraisal, Challenges and 2017 Summit” Perspectives’ Athens, 08/11/2017 Athens, 14/11/2017
Roundtable Discussion: ‘Geopolitics of Seminars by ELIAMEP and Northeast Asia and IDOS on Greece and the Eastern future of Europe Mediterranean: Prospects for Peace and Security’
Athens, 27/09/2017
Roundtable discussion: ‘China’s Belt and Road ELIAMEP’s 14th European Initiative: Seminar Constructing the Balkan Silk Road’ Nafplio, 07–09/09/2017
Athens, 14/09/2017
Round table discussion: “Access to education for refugee children in Two-day tribute to the Greece: evaluations “Unknown Balkans” and experiences
from the past year” Athens, 02-03/06/2017
Athens, 12/06/2017
Expert Workshop “Lessons Learned 4th Mercator European From Radicalization- Dialogue “Europe: The Prevention Efforts” Journey Ahead” Berlin, 12-13/05/2017 Athens, 22-
23/05/2017
“Challenges and Conference on “Greece Prospects for the and Europe in a changing future of Europe” world: Challenges and prospects Athens, 08/05/2017
Drama, 01/04/2017
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Book launch event for: Leaders of Round-table discussion on Modern Greek the relations between History: Fame and Greece and Bulgaria Deadlocks’ authored by Thanos Veremis Athens, 10/03/2017
Athens, 03/04/2017
Conference “New Pact for Europe” 2nd “European National Reflection Group Solidarity Corps” Athens, 14/02/2017 Athens, 17/03/2017
“Forms of radical Discussion on “Economic politicization and Recovery after Depression: political violence in Historical and International Greece” Experience”
Athens, 21/02/2017 Athens, 01/02/2017
“New Pact for Europe” Transnational ‘In Defense of Europe. Can meeting between the European project be the Greek and saved?’ book launch event Estonian National Athens, 26/01/2017 Reflection Groups
Athens, 13/01/2017
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Publications
ELIAMEP Briefing Notes
2017 Presidential Elections in Serbia: One Victory “Clean as a Whistle” and One Whistling Crowd, by Maja Maksimović
The nuclear factor in Turkey’s foreign relations, by Pantelis Oikonomou
The Bulgarian Parliamentary Elections of 26th March 2017, by Yorgos Christidis
Kosovo’s tale of discontent and ongoing political crisis, by Pranvera Tika
ELIAMEP Working Papers
The inclusion of refugees in the Greek education system, by Dia Anagnostou and Marina Nikolova
The Continuing Political Turmoil in Kosovo, by Bledar Feta
The Greek-Turkish Dispute over Imia (in Greek), by Nikolaos Paounis
Greek Secondary School: Attempts at understanding the European reality and international developments (in Greek), by Nikolaos Moulios
Dictionary on the conflict in Syria, by Chiara Tzivraili
Opening a New Silk Road from China, by Jens Bastian
Eurasia, Putin and the Return of Hardcore “Cabal” to the Russian Political Scene (in Greek), by Alexandros Mpoufessis
The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia: New Government and New Policies or New Government and Old Tactics? A view from Athens, by Alexandros Mallias
Recruitment of Europeans into ISIS, by Spiros Bamiatzis
ELIAMEP Books
Courts, Privacy and Data Protection in the Digital Environment, edited by Maja Brkan and Evangelia Psychogiopoulou
Enter Crisis, by Nikos Koutsiaras and Kyriakos Filinis
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Journals
Journal of Southeast European and Black Sea Studies Southeast European and Black Sea Studies is the official journal of ELIAMEP and is currently in its sixteenth year of publication. It is published four times a year by Taylor & Francis Group (Routledge Journals, London), and has consistently been a central academic point of reference for the Black Sea region as well as Southeast Europe.
The aim of the journal is to establish a line of dialogue with the Balkan and Black Sea regions, which until recently remained isolated from the European mainstream. The regions are still in need of serious comparative study, as are the individual countries, no longer 'at the edge' of Europe but increasingly significant players in their own right.
The principal disciplines covered by the journal are politics, political economy, international relations and modern history; other disciplinary approaches are accepted as appropriate. The journal takes both an academic and also a more practical, policy-oriented approach and hopes to compensate for the serious information deficit on the countries under consideration. It provides a unique opportunity to establish a new paradigm of analysis for the region, one that attempts to break away from the traditional ethnocentric approaches to develop a deeper and more fruitful understanding of the area.
Over the last year, the journal published a number of very insightful papers as well as high impact special issues that greatly contributed to our understanding of European politics and EU enlargement in the Western Balkans and complex political, economic, social and security developments in Southeast Europe and the Black Sea area, including Greece, Cyprus, Turkey, Russia and Ukraine. The journal published articles analyzing many crucial current problems and challenges for these regions. The journal also published very timely special issues: on the state of Turkish democracy and also on EU enlargement in the Western Balkans.
Throughout the year, the journal continued to publish high quality original work on a number of themes relevant to the Southeast Europe region, and both views and citations of the articles continue to increase.
All articles published in SEEBSS undergo a rigorous peer-reviewer process, and the journal has been included in the ISI Social Science Citation Index since 2007. To submit a manuscript, contact: Dr. Ioannis Armakolas, Editor in Chief Southeast European and Black Sea Studies email: [email protected]
Find the journal on Twitter @JSEEBSS
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In the Media
Year after year, ELIAMEP’s presence in the Greek and foreign media grows, serving one of the Foundation’s main objectives which is to raise public awareness and provide valid analysis on issues related to European policy and international affairs. In 2017, its academic staff, research fellows and associates had a dynamic presence in the media with articles, interviews and quotations in newspapers, journals, radio and television stations from all around the world. Examples include Greek newspapers and portals, such as Capital.gr, Efimerida ton Syntakton, Ethnos, Kathimerini, Protagon.gr, Ta Nea, To Vima, as well as Capital.gr, Protagon.gr, The TOC, and Lifo. At the international level, examples include ABC, Al Jazeera, ARD, ARTE TV, Associated Press, Bloomberg, BBC, CCTV, CNBC, Deutsche Presse Agentur, EU Observer, Financial Times, France 24, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Guardian, La Repubblica Le Figaro, Le Temps, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Newsweek, New York Times, RAI radio, Reuters, RTL and Russia Today, Washington Post.
Online Presence
In 2017, ELIAMEP continued its effort to further expand its web-presence. In particular, the Foundation’s main website reinforced its role as a central channel of communication for disseminating information on a daily basis about our activities, publications, events and initiatives.
The website of ELIAMEP (www.eliamep.gr, www.eliamep.gr/en) has approximately 500 hits per day from a wide range of countries including the US, China, Germany, France, Italy, the UK, Russia and Switzerland, as well as Greece. The website offers daily information on ELIAMEP publications, activities, media presence and news. Special emphasis was given to the presence of ELIAMEP representatives in domestic and international media as well as to research programmes. The website also offered special links where material related to the crisis and scholarships could be found. These links were being systematically updated covering developments. In addition, the recently established ELIAMEP Web TV gives the opportunity for the conduct of interviews with politicians and scholars attending conferences organized by ELIAMEP.
Through the usage of social media, mainly youtube, facebook and twitter, our Foundation managed to significantly improve its network and enhance the debate on its publications and activities. Finally, ELIAMEP continued to develop its content partnerships with the renowned European information portals.
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Our Researchers’ Activities
Dia Anagnostou,
Senior Research Fellow
Team Member, European Research Council Starting Grant, “Directions in Religious Pluralism in Europe: Examining Grassroots Mobilisations in Europe in the Shadow of European Court of Human Rights religious freedom jurisprudence”, (GRASSROOTSMOBILISE) In the frame of the project, Anagnostou organized a side event at the APSA conference, in which the project’s researchers presented their work and engaged with well-known scholars in the field of law, human rights, and courts. Research partner, H2020 project (GA number 741672), “Taking a Reflexive approach to Gender Equality for institutional Transformation” (TARGET) In the frame of this project, she attended the kick-off meeting in Brussels (June 2017) and the first capacity building workshop in Marseilles, France (September 2017). In March, Anagnostou spoke at an experts’ panel on European asylum law and policy, at the Heinrich Boll Foundation in Berlin, and presented her research at the American Political Science Foundation (APSA) in San Francisco (August 2017), at the Munk School of Global Affairs in the University of Toronto (October 2017), and in Humboldt University in Berlin (October 2017). In June, Anagnostou (together with Marina Nikolova) organized a roundtable discussion at ELIAMEP on the integration of refugee children in Greece and co-authored a policy report on this topic. During 2017, Anagnostou also worked on a monograph on Litigating and Mobilizing human rights on behalf of Migrants and Minorities in the Strasbourg Court. Publications
Dia Anagnostou and Dimitris Skleparis, “Human Rights in European Prisons: Can the Implementation of Strasbourg Court Judgments Influence Penitentiary Reform Domestically?" Europe in Prisons: Assessing the impact of European institutions on national prison systems, Tom Daems and Luc Robert (eds.) (Palgrave Publishers, 2017), pp. 37-77
Dia Anagnostou, “Gender equality and parity in European national constitutions”, Handbook on Gender and Constitutions, Helen Irving (ed.), Palgrave Macmillan, 2017, pp. 268-288
Dia Anagnostou, with Rositsa Dzhekova, Nadya Stoynova, Anton Kojouharov, Mila Mancheva and Emil Tsenkov, Understanding Radicalisation: A Review of the Literature, Sofia: Center for the Study of Democracy, 2017
«Σεξουαλική παρενόχληση και ισότητα των φύλων» (Sexual harassment and gender equality), To Vima, 22 October 2017
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«Για μια φιλελεύθερη ευρωπαϊκή πολιτική για το άσυλο» (For a liberal European asylum policy), Kathimerini, 2 April 2017 «Μια νίκη για τα δικαιώματα και τη δημοκρατία» (A victory for rights and democracy), To Vima, 9 April 2017.
Presentations
Presentation of paper on “Asylum policy in the “shadow” of European human rights rulings: A socio-legal account of the judicial challenges to Dublin transfers”, at the conference on “European Migration and Asylum Policy in the Aftermath of Brexit”, Centre for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies, Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto, 6-7 October 2017 Discussant in the panel “Mobilizing (Against) Migration Law”, at the workshop “Migration and the Transformation of Public Law” Law and Society Institute, Humboldt University, Berlin, 2-3 October 2017 Discussant in the panel “Measuring Legitimacy at the Grassroots: Mobilizations in the Shadow of the ECtHR”, American Political Science Association (APSA) Annual Meeting, San Francisco, 31 August – 3 September 2017 Participant and speaker at the experts’ panel on “European Refugee and Asylum Policy” at the Conference “Moving Forward with Europe! The liberal democracy crisis and the future of the EU”, organized by the Heinrich Boll Foundation, Berlin, 20-21 March 2017
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Ioannis ARMAKOLAS,
Stavros Costopoulos Research Fellow
Ioannis Armakolas is the Stavros Costopoulos Research Fellow at ELIAMEP, where he is the Head of the South-East Europe Programme. He is also the Editor-in-Chief of the academic journal Southeast European and Black Sea Studies, published by Taylor & Francis Group in collaboration with ELIAMEP. Dr Armakolas is Assistant Professor in Comparative Politics of South-East Europe at the Department of Balkan, Slavic, and Oriental Studies, University of Macedonia (Thessaloniki).
Publications Ioannis Armakolas & Giorgos Triantafyllou (2017): Greece and EU Enlargement to the Western Balkans: understanding an ambivalent relationship, Southeast European and Black Sea Studies, Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy & Department of Balkan, Slavic & Oriental Studies, University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki, Greece, January 2018, pp. 20 (Journal) Yorgos Christidis, Ioannis Armakolas & Panagiotis Paschalidis (2017): Greek- Bulgarian Relations, Present State and Future Challenges, Southeast European and Black Sea Studies, Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy, Athens, March 2017, pp. 67 (Research Report) Angelos Athanassopoulos, Nikos Efthimiadis, Dimitris Keridis, Marilena Koppa, Ilias Kouskouvelis, Stavros Ligeros, Alexandros P. Mallias & George Harvalias (2017): The New Mobility in the name issue of FYROM, Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy, Athens, January 2017, pp. 10 (Strategic Analysis) Ioannis Armakolas, Agon Demjaha, Arolda Elbasani, Stephanie Schwandner-Sievers, Elton Skendaj & Nikolaos Tzifakis (eds.): State Building in Post-Independence Kosovo, Policy Challenges and Societal Considerations, Kosovo Foundation for Open Society, Kosovo, July 2017, pp. 425 (edited volume) James Ker-Lindsay and Ioannis Armakolas (eds.): Lack of Engagement? Surveying the Spectrum of EU Member State Policies Towards Kosovo, Kosovo Foundation for Open Society – KFOS, Pristina, December 2017, pp.59 (edited volume) Ioannis Armakolas & George Siakas: What’s in a name? Greek Public Attitudes towards the “Name Dispute” and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia in 2018, Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy & UoM Research Institute - Opinion Research Unit, Athens, March 2018, pp. 39 (Research Report) Events Round-table discussion on the relations between Greece and Bulgaria, 10 March 2017 Presentation of ELIAMEP Study on relations between Greece and Bulgaria Two-day tribute to the "Unknown Balkans" Roundtable discussion: 'China’s Belt and Road Initiative: Constructing the Balkan Silk Road'
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Vangelis ARANITIS, Research Fellow
Vangelis Arvanitis is a PhD candidate from the Department of Economics (University of Thessaly). He has graduated with honours from the Department of Economics (University of Thessaly) granted with three scholarships from “States Scholarships Foundation”. He holds a postgraduate degree in “Applied Economics”. He has taught undergraduate and postgraduate courses in monetary policy, portfolio analysis & portfolio management, introduction to international banking and finance. His research interests focus mainly on central bank transparency and the transmission mechanism of monetary policy, as well as, on issues related to the European Union, the global and the Greek economic crisis. He has various publications in economic journals and has participated in conferences both in Greece and abroad.
Since October 2017, he is a Research Fellow in Crisis Observatory of ELIAMEP. His main occupation is managing, operation and updating of the website of crisis observatory and its reformation. Additionally, he is responsible for organizing the documentation of economics and manage all the necessary paperwork of “A.G Leventis Foundation”.
He has participated in a research program commissioned by the Bank of Greece studying the fiscal and financial consolidation of Euro Area countries. He, also, participated in a research program developed by C. Spanou entitled “Reforms in Public Administration during the crisis: Review, Description, Evaluation”.
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Kalliopi AMYGDALOU, Marie Sklodowska Curie Actions Research Fellow
Within the context of REPLICIAS Programme, 2017 was divided between fieldwork, training and dissemination of ongoing research outcomes. I visited Skopje twice (April and November) for interviews and fieldwork, and spend 4 weeks in Turkey (secondment at Kadir Has University, Istanbul Studies Center) for training, interviews and archival research. In terms of training, I also took a short course in basic Bulgarian and I completed two rounds of training on Geographic Information Systems. The first experimentations with data mapping for the city of Skopje were carried out in Fall 2017 with the help of intern Evaggelia Gouda. The programme’s website was launched in December. In addition, I attended webinars and seminars organized by the Marie Skłodowska Curie Actions. I participated in two conferences and gave two closed presentations (at ELIAMEP and NTUA respectively), and I collaborated with journalist Tasos Telloglou in the realization of a TV episode dedicated to Skopje 2014 (aired November 2017).
Publications
Kalliopi Amygdalou, Exhibition Review, ‘Anatolian Travels, 19th Century: A Review’, in Meltem, Journal of the Izmir Mediterranean Academy, No.1, Summer 2017, 79-83
Kalliopi Amygdalou, ‘The Politics of Russian Archaeology in Ottoman Lands’, review of doctoral thesis titled “Byzantine Heritage, Archaeology, and Politics between Russia and the Ottoman Empire: Russian Archaeological Institute in Constantinople (1894-1914)”, dissertationreviews.org (http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/14086), January 2017
Presentations
1-hour live radio discussion on ‘Antiquity and the project ‘Skopje 2014’’, radio programme 'I Sholi ton Athinon', hosted by historian Prof. Thanos Veremis, on radio station Athens 9,84, Athens, 30 April 2017 http://www.replicias.eu/replicias-on-radio-984_antiquity-and-skopje-2014/
Interviewed on the project ‘Skopje 2014’ by the TV-programme ‘Istories’, weekly show, episode by Tasos Telloglou dedicated to the project Skopje 2014, SKAI channel, Greece, November 2017 http://www.skai.gr/player/tv/?mmid=297489
Presentation “Skopje 2014” and the return of history”, Conference ‘Unknown Balkans’, organised by ELIAMEP, Interalia, and Kosovo Foundation for Open Society, Athens, 2-3 June 2017. http://www.blod.gr/lectures/Pages/viewlecture.aspx?LectureID=3498
The Mosque that Became the House of Parliament: the Story of the ‘Vouleftiko Mosque’ in Nafplio, joint presentation with Elias Kolovos at the conference 'Histoires, espaces et patrimoines', École Française d'Athènes, Athens, 15 Sept 2017
Presentation of REPLICIAS research at ELIAMEP, 21.3.2017 attended by ELIAMEP researchers and outside experts
Guest Lecture at NTUA School of Architecture, PhD Seminars, 29.5.2017
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Angeliki DIMITRIADI, Research Fellow
Angeliki Dimitriadi is coordinator of the Work Package on Migration of the FEATURE project (The Future of EU-Turkey Relations: Mapping Dynamics and Testing Scenarios/ H2020) and is Principal Researcher in the “Evaluation of the Common European Asylum System under Pressure and Recommendations for Further Development-CEASEVAL” project (H2020). In the Spring of 2017 she taught the MA course on Migration and Integration at Democritus University in Thrace.
Her research focuses on the governance of irregular migration and asylum policies.
Publications
Dimitriadi, A. (2017) Governing irregular migration at the margins of Europe. The case of hotspots on the Greek islands, Etnografia e ricerca qualitative 1:75-96
V. Squire, A. Dimitriadi, N. Perkowski, M.Pisani, D. Stevens, N. Vaughan Williams (2017) Crossing the Mediterranean Sea by Boat: Mapping and Documenting Migratory Journeys and Experiences, Final Project Report
Dimitriadi, A. (2017) In pursuit of asylum: Afghan migrants in Greece, European Journal of Migration and Law Special Issue, Beyond Irregular Migration Governance: Zooming in on Migrants' Agency
Dimitriadi, A. (2017) Lessons from the frontline: What can be learnt from the Greek experience, in Pastore F (ed) ‘Beyond the Migration and Asylum crisis: options and lessons for Europe’, Rome: Aspen Institute
Events
Speaker on ‘EU-Turkey relationship on migration’ at the conference ‘“EU-Turkey Relations: Game (not) over?” 19-20 October 2017, CIDOB, Barcelona
Speaker at the "Migration and Human Trafficking Regional Conference "14th and 15th of June 2017, Athens, organised by the George C. Marshall Center, European Center for Security Studies
Speaker at the workshop “Afghans in Europe”, 14-15 November 2017, Aarhus,Denmark
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Thanos DOKOS, Director General
In February Dr. Thanos Dokos, ELIAMEP’s Director-General, participated to an expert workshop on Building Resilience in the Western Balkans, organized by the EU Institute for Security Studies in Brussels. He also wrote the concluding chapter in the produced publication. Later in the month he moderated a panel in the Rad Monitor workshop, organized by ELIAMEP in Athens and spoke on foreign policy issues at a working lunch organized the Hellenic Businesspeople Association. In March he was a speaker in two panels and a moderator in another one at the Delphi Economic Forum. He also spoke at the Athens Mare Forum and the Piraeus Maritime Club. In April he was a speaker at a panel discussion organized by ELIAMEP in the Greek city of Drama. At the end of the month he visited South Korea as part of a multinational group of scholars invited by the Korea Foundation. In May he was a speaker at the annual Exposec conference in Athens. He also organized a workshop on ‘Lessons learned from Radicalization-prevention efforts’, in cooperation with the Athens office of the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung and participated to a GMF-Egmont conference on ‘NATO: (Re)Acting in an Era of Transition’ that was held in Brussels. In June he briefed two groups of students, from the Hellenic-American Institute and the Hellenic Studies Center of the University of Toronto on Greek and regional security issues. He also participated to the EU-ISS annual conference in Brussels, lectured at a training seminar organized by the Bertelsmann Stiftung in Dusseldorf and was a keynote speaker at a conference organized in Herzliya, Israel, by the Israeli European Policy Network, the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, the Universitat der Bundeswehr, Munchen, and the Center for Political Economics on ‘After 50 years, -No future for Two peoples? What must be done to build peace’. In July he represented ELIAMEP at the Euromesco Annual Assembly, in Barcelona and was a speaker at a workshop organized by NEW Med, IAI and the Truman institute on ‘Peace Economics: opportunities and options for a post-conflict Middle East’, held in Jerusalem. In September he spoke at the 6th AFW Aviation development conference in Athens and moderated a panel discussion on Geopolitics of Northeast Asia and Eastern Mediterranean: Prospects for Peace and security’, organized by ELIAMEP in Athens. In October he participated to a FEUTURE (an EU Commission funded project in the Horizon 2020 framework on EU-Turkey relations) workshop in Barcelona and to a workshop organized in Brussels by the European Political Strategy Centre (the European Commission’s think tank) on European trends. In November he organized a conference on ‘EaP: Looking beyond the 2017 Summit’ and a Euromesco workshop on ‘New Euro-Mediterranean Dynamics in the Eastern Mediterranean’ (he also co-authored a chapter in the resulting publication). He also moderated a workshop on ‘Media pluralism in Greece’. All three events took place in Athens. Later in the month he participated to a Chatham House workshop on ‘UK, Turkey, EU relations’, and to a European think-tank meeting in Rome and in MED 2017 conference. In November and December, he co-organized a series of training seminars on the future of the EU, in cooperation with the Athens-based IDOS institute. In December he was a speaker at an international conference organized by the Hellenic Army General Staff on the ‘Future of land warfare’. During the year he also participated to various meetings in the context of the Mercator European Dialogue project. Among other publications, he wrote a chapter on the long-term prospects for migration for a publication in the context of the Bertelsmann Stiftung’s Trilogue Project and contributed to a DIANEOSIS-Athens Economics University-ELIAMEP joint project on Greece and the EU. Finally, he continued to write his bi- weekly column at the leading KATHIMERINI newspaper, taught a postgraduate course on ‘Contemporary Turkey’ at the University of Athens, two courses on Mediterranean Security at College Year in Athens and lectured at various military schools.
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Bledi FETA, Junior Research Fellow
In 2017, Bledar Feta continued his ongoing activity as an active member of the South East Europe Program of ELIAMEP. The analytical spectrum of his research included the monitoring and analysis of the political developments in Albania, Kosovo, and the Albanian inhabited areas of the Western Balkans. Through the daily scanning of the Albanian and Kosovar media he investigated the current state of play in the EU accession process of both countries in an effort to identify the political, social and economic problems that slow down their accession process to the EU. Bledar became involved in the program’s research project “Addressing the Problem of Negative National Stereotypes in the Southern Balkans” funded by the Kosovo Foundation for Open Society. In the context of this research project Bledar dealt with the investigation of the political situation in Kosovo and he produced a working paper. In Working Paper 88/2017 Bledar analyzed the main aspects of the political and institutional crisis that hit Kosovo after 2014 Parliamentary elections. On the occasion of the snap parliamentary elections in FYROM Bledar wrote a briefing note where he analyzed FYROM’s two-year political stalemate, arguing over the importance of the elections as an opportunity for the formation of a stable government. During the same year, Bledar participated in the “Act for Free Movement” transnational training programme organized by the European Alternatives, a Berlin-based organization. Under this project, Bledar travelled to Warsaw, Madrid and London where he attended a number of training seminars on the defense of the free movement of people in the EU. Bledar was also one of the members of the working team responsible for the organization of the two-day conference regarding the “Unknown Balkans” which took place in June. As a background work Bledar has been collecting material in order to allow the program’s team to remain up to date with regional developments and properly assess their significance.
Publications “The Continuing Political Turmoil in Kosovo”, ELIAMEP Working Paper No. 88/2017, December 2017. Available at: http://www.eliamep.gr/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/KosovoWP.pdf [in English] “What our Fear of Refugees Says about Europe and the Way Forward for European Policy Approach” European Expression Journal, January 2017. Available at: https://issuu.com/europeanexpression/docs/ee.100 [in English] “Elections in FYROM: The End of the Two-Year Political Crisis or more of the Same?”, ELIAMEP Briefing Note 49, January 2017. Available at: http://www.eliamep.gr/wp- content/uploads/2016/12/FYROM.pdf [in English]
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Juliane FUNK, Junior Research Fellow,
South-East Europe Programme
Editorial assistant for the journal Southeast European and Black Sea Studies and Consulting in the Western Balkans:
advanced language study: private tutoring plus an intensive winter and summer school at Udruzenje Lingvisti
coordination work on the edited volume Unhealed Trauma: Healing and Peacebuilding in Bosnia & Herzegovina – internally reviewing authors’ chapters and communication for revisions, writing introduction and proposals for publication (for 2016 project Trauma, Memory and Healing in the Balkans and Beyond as part of the Program for Interdisciplinary Learning and Research of TPO Foundation, Sarajevo
TPO Foundation planning meeting to create a Critical Thinking Program and curricula (March 2017)
Sarajevo mosque visit and consultation with American BA students in the Balkan Semester program of the European Center for the Study of War and Peace (April 2017)
Initial coordination for the European Society for Intercultural Theology and Interreligious Studies’ 2019 conference in Sarajevo
External lecturer at the University of Zurich, Switzerland
MA/BA colloquium ‘The religious right in the context of current American politics’ (School of Religious Studies, spring semester 2017)
BA seminar ‘Introduction to Peace and Conflict Studies’ (Institute of Political Science, fall semester 2017)
Publications
Funk, Julianne, and Nancy Good. 2017. Neizliječena trauma: rad na ozdravljenju i izgradnji mira u BiH [Unhealed Trauma. Healing and Peacebuilding in Bosnia & Herzegovina]. Sarajevo: TPO Foundation
Funk, Julianne, Nancy Good and Amra Delic. 2017. Uvod [Introduction]. In Neizliječena trauma: rad na ozdravljenju i izgradnji mira u BiH [Unhealed Trauma. Healing and Peacebuilding in Bosnia & Herzegovina], ed. Julianne Funk and Nancy Good, 8-42. Sarajevo: TPO Foundation
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Effie FOKAS, Researcher, Principal Investigator for the “Grassrootsmobilise” project
Effie Fokas, Principal Investigator for the Grassrootsmobilise project, continued to manage all aspects relating to the project, as well presenting and publishing based on both her own ‘grasstops’ and the team’s ‘grassroots’ fieldwork research. She published or submitted 5 chapters in edited volumes and 5 articles in peer-reviewed journals, and presented the project’s preliminary results at 5 conferences and events.
Presentations
21 February 2017 - Hellenic Observatory, London School of Economics (LSE), London Presentation by Effie Fokas and Margarita Markoviti on religious pluralism and education in Greece. 7 May, 2017 - ‘The Kokkinakis Papers: Taking Stock of 25 years of ECHR Jurisprudence on Freedom of Religion or Belief‘ Conference, Central European University, Budapest Effie Fokas presented her Grassrootsmobilise-based research on ‘Kokkinakis at the Grassroots Level’. 9-10 June 2017 - Workshop on ‘Religious freedom and the varieties of religious establishment’, Lichtenberg-Kolleg, Georg-August-Universität, Göttingen o Effie Fokas presented a paper on ‘Religion and national identity on trial: the impact of the ECtHR on religious freedom at the grassroots level’.
5-7 July 2017 - International Society of Public Law (ICON-S) Annual Meeting, University of Copenhagen o Grassrootsmobilise Panel on ‘The European Court of Human Rights at the Grassroots Level: Exploring the Court’s Role in Governing Religious Pluralism on the Ground’.
31 August – 3 September 2017 - American Political Science Association (APSA) Annual Meeting, San Francisco o Grassrootsmobilise Panel on ‘Measuring Legitimacy at the Grassroots: Mobilizations in the Shadow of the ECtHR’. o Grassrootsmobilise independent session with a number of distinguished academics also participating in the APSA conference and working on or around related issues.
Publications
Religious Pluralism and Education in Greece’, Effie Fokas and Margarita Markoviti (LSE Hellenic Observatory blog, 1 March 2017)
Religious Pluralism and Education in Greece’, Effie Fokas and Margarita Markoviti (LSE Hellenic Observatory blog, 1 March 2017)
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‘God’s advocates: The multiple fronts of the war on blasphemy in Greece’, Effie Fokas (In eds. J.Temperman and A.Koltay, Blasphemy and Freedom of Expression: Comparative, Theoretical and Historical Reflections after the Charlie Hebdo Massacre, 2017)
Journal Special Issue: The European Court of Human Rights and Minority Religions (Religion, State and Society, 2017, 45(3-4)): o ‘The European Court of Human Rights and minority religions: messages generated and messages received’, Effie Fokas & James T. Richardson o ‘The European Court of Human Rights at the Grassroots Level: who knows what about religion at the ECtHR, and to what effects?’, Effie Fokas
The Legal Status of Religious Minorities: exploring the impact of the European Court of Human Rights', Effie Fokas (Social Compass, 2017, 1-18)
‘Grassroots level awareness about religion at the European Court of Human Rights’, Effie Fokas (In eds. J. Temperman, J. Gunn and M. Evans, The Kokkinakis Papers: Taking Stock of 25 years of ECHR Jurisprudence on Freedom of Religion or Belief, forthcoming)
Journal Special Issue: Religion and Education in the Shadow of the ECtHR, Politics and Religion (in progress): ‘The “radiating effects” of the ECtHR on social mobilisations around religion and education in Europe: an analytical frame’, Effie Fokas & Dia Anagnostou
Edited Volume: The European Court of Human Rights for Religious and Non-religious minorities (in progress)
‘Religious American and Secular European Courts, or vice versa? A study of institutional cross- pollination’ (In ed. Titus Hjelm, Peter L. Berger and the Sociology of Religion: 50 Years after the Sacred Canopy. London: Bloomsbury Academic, forthcoming)
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Dimitrios KATSIKAS, Research Fellow
Head of Crisis Observatory
Dr. Katsikas coordinated and supervised the operation of the Crisis Observatory during 2017. Dr. Katsikas was the coordinator and scientific supervisor of the research programme, commissioned by the Bank of Greece, entitled “The Political Economy of Reforms in Greece (2010-2014)”. The research phase of the programme was concluded in 2016. In early 2017 Dr. Katsikas and the team of researchers presented at the Bank of Greece the findings of the research, while the final report of the programme was submitted in the summer of 2017 and is expected to be published as a book by the Bank of Greece in early 2018. Moreover, in May 2017, ELIAMEP signed its participation in a new three-year research programme entitled “Crisis Management, Equity, Democracy”, under the auspices of Jean Monnet Networks; the Crisis Observatory/ ELIAMEP is part of the consortium of participating institutions and Dr. Katsikas participates as country coordinator and researcher for Greece. As part of his duties Dr. Katsikas participated in the kick-off event of the programme in Brussels in June 2017 and in the first of a series of conferences and coordination events, that took place in Sao Paolo, Brazil in October 2017. Between September and December 2017, Dr. Katsikas participated as a researcher in a research programme assigned to the Crisis Observatory by the Bank of Greece on “Fiscal Policy in the European Union”. Professor Achilleas Mitsos was the coordinator of the programme. The final report of the programme is expected in early 2018. Finally, from October 2017 Dr. Katsikas is responsible for the operation of the new ‘A. G. Leventis Foundation Research Chair’. This is a new research programme focusing on European political economy issues of Greek interest, which is funded by the A.G. Leventis Foundation.
Events
“Economic crisis and Euroscepticism: A view from the South” presentation at “European Occidental Identity: Europe of Regions”, Mind Crossing Borders, International Conference, Budapest, 1-2 December
“Attitudes of Europeans towards the EU before and after the economic crisis”, presentation at the International Seminar “Crises and Institutions in Latin America and Europe”, October 30-31, in Sao Paolo, Brazil. The seminar was held in the framework of the bi-regional research programme Jean Monnet Network “Crisis-Equity-Democracy for Europe and Latin America”
Round-table on “Internal Imbalances of the EMU and Distributive Aspects of Monetary Policy: A Challenge for Democracy and the Existence of the European Union?”, Kick-off Meeting, Jean Monnet Network “Crisis-Equity-Democracy for Europe and Latin America”, Brussels, 6 June
Dr. Katsikas gave several interviews during the year, including to ERT radio, Real FM radio, Huffington Post in Greece, Naftemporiki, German Public Radio and Xinhua News Agency. He also briefed numerous foreign officials and gave a number of lectures on the Greek crisis and economy to groups of students and other visiting delegations at ELIAMEP.
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Publications
During 2017, Dr. Katsikas worked on 4 book projects, some of them culminating previous Observatory initiatives and research programmes. One of the books was published in 2017, while the remaining three are expected to be published in 2018.
Books
D. Katsikas, K. Filinis and M. Anastasatou (eds.), Understanding the Greek Crisis: Answers to Key Questions about the State, the Economy and Europe, Papazisis Publications (in Greek). The volume contains a series of papers by acknowledged academics and researchers about key aspects of the Greek crisis.
Book Chapters
“Introduction: Understanding the Greek crisis”, in D. Katsikas, K. Filinis and M. Anastasatou (eds.), Understanding the Greek Crisis, Papazisis Publications, (in Greek)
“Is it true that the Greek public sector is too big?”, with S. Ladi, in D. Katsikas, K. Filinis and M. Anastasatou (eds.), Understanding the Greek Crisis, Papazisis Publications, (in Greek)
“Is it true that the handling of the Greek crisis, was dictated by the need to rescue the European banking system?”, in D. Katsikas, K. Filinis and M. Anastasatou (eds.), Understanding the Greek Crisis, Papazisis Publications, (in Greek)
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Konstantinos PAPANIKOLAOU, Research Fellow
Konstantinos Papanikolaou participated as External Research Associate in the project “2CU-Towards a Citizen’s Union” (9/2017-6/2019). In parallel, he is Research Assistant in the Department of Political Science and Public Administration at National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.
Events “Greece and Europe in the time of Economic Crisis”, 4th Conference of Greek Academic Union of European Studies (31-3-2017, 1-4-2017) Presentation’s title: «The implications of Crisis in the influence of EU in the international community-The direct implications of External Economic Dimension of EU” Participation in the “2CU-Towards a Citizen’s Union” 1st workshop, Berlin, 26-27/10/2017 Publications
From the European integration to the differentiated integration in Europe?”, Eliamep Working Paper 78/2017 (http://bit.ly/2s6a1ml), co- authoring with Dr. Filippa Chatzistavrou
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Marina NIKOLOVA, Junior Research Fellow
Marina Nikolova is a researcher in migration and integration policies and practices and the National Coordinator for Greece of the European Web Site on Integration (EWSI - www.integration.eu).
Events In 2017, she organized the closed round-table discussion “Access to education for refugee children in Greece: Evaluations and experiences from the past year” at ELIAMEP with a group of experts from a wide range of diverse backgrounds. Publications On the occasion of the meeting, Marina co-authored with Prof. Dia Anagnostou the ELIAMEP Working Paper 84/2017: “The inclusion of refugees in the Greek education system”. Marina prepared the “Refugees in Greece 2013-2017: Infographic & Statistical information”, published on the website of ELIAMEP in November 2017. Marina is PhD candidate in the Department of Social and Education Policy, University of the Peloponnese.
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Eleni PANAGIOTAREA, Research Fellow
Dr. Eleni Panagiotarea was national co-rapporter, in collaboration with Prof. G. Pagoulatos, on the ‘New Pact for Europe- Rebuilding Trust through Dialogue’ project. Dr. Panagiotarea co-authored the Greek report and participated in the European Reflection Group. She was the national expert for the Chatham House project ‘Contested Legitimacy in the EU’, analysing the data for the future of Europe from the national perspective.
Events
Quoted in: ‘Pan-EU 'bad bank' proposal fraught with challenges’, S&P Global Market Intelligence, 1 February Interview in Estonian newspaper, Eesti Päevaleht: Raamatu „Kreeka euroalas” autor: see on hirmutav, kui oled võlgade tõttu kaotanud suveräänsuse, 2 February
Interview in Dutch newspaper, Trouw: Er is een akkoord, maar het kwam weer eens veel te laat, 3 May Publications
New Pact for Europe, National Report, Greece The Future of Europe: Comparing Public and Elite Attitudes Παναγιωταρέα, Ε. (2017) ‘Είναι αλήθεια ότι η στάση της Ευρωζώνης έναντι της Ελλάδας δεν ήταν αλληλέγγυα;’. Σε Κατσίκας, Δ., Φιλίνης, Κ. και Αναστασάτου, Μ. επιμ., Κατανοώντας την Ελληνική Κρίση: Απαντήσεις σε Καίρια Ερωτήματα για το Κράτος, την Οικονομία και την Ευρώπη. Αθήνα: Eκδόσεις Παπαζήση.
Panagiotarea, E. (2017) ‘Non-performing loans in the European periphery: the political economy of reform’. In: P. Manasse and D. Katsikas, eds., Economic Crisis and Structural Reforms in Southern Europe: Policy Lessons. Abingdon: Routledge
Pagoulatos, G. and Panagiotarea, E. (2017), New Pact for Europe, National Report, Greece, June Παναγιωταρέα, Ε. (2017) «Αποδυναμωμένη η Ε.Ε στα μάτια των Ελλήνων», Καθημερινή, 22 Ιουνίου
Παναγιωταρέα, Ε. (2017) «Μία Ευρωπαϊκή bad bank θα ήταν λύση για την Ελλάδα», Καθημερινή, 12 Φεβρουαρίου
Παναγιωταρέα, Ε. (2017) «Η Αυταπάτη και το Πλεόνασμα», Καθημερινή, 4 Μαρτίου
Παναγιωταρέα, Ε. (20170, σχόλιο στη Σειρά Στρατηγικών Αναλύσεων, Μία Ελληνική Ανάγνωση του State of the Union του Jean Claude Juncker, Οκτώβριος
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Mihai POPA, Research Fellow
Throughout 2017, my main focus has been the analysis of the data gathered during the fieldwork for the Romanian case study of the Grassrootsmobilise programme coordinated by Dr. Effie Fokas. I presented preliminary research results in academic conferences organized in Copenhagen and San Francisco and in two public seminars organized in Berlin and Potsdam. Together with my colleague Liviu Andreescu, I published an article in the academic journal Religion, State and Society and I finalized the revisions for an article that is due to be published in the journal Politics and Religion.
Presentations
August 2017. “Looking for justice in Strasbourg? Religious actors’ use of the European Court of Human Rights and its jurisprudence in Romania”, at the 113th Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, San Francisco, USA
July 2017. “Battlefield Romania: Activist struggles for the meaning of “family” at the interface between legal pluralism and social diversity” at the Centre for Citizenship, Social Pluralism and Religious Diversity, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany
July 2017. “Who cares about Strasbourg? The role of activists in foregrounding the case-law of the European Court of Human Rights in religion-related litigations in Romania” at the 4th Annual ICON- S Conference: Courts, Power, Public Law, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
May 2017. “Towards a pro-family Constitution: Dynamics of state-religion relations and citizen mobilization in present-day Romania”, Institute for East European Studies, Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Publications
Forthcoming. “Religion and Education in Romania: Social Mobilization and the ‘Shadow’ of the European Court of Human Rights” (first author; coauthored with Liviu Andreescu)
2017. “Legal Provisions, Courts, and the Status of Religious Communities: A Socio-legal Analysis of Inter-religious Relations in Romania.” Religion, State and Society 45(3-4): 297-316 (first author; coauthored with Liviu Andreescu)
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Margarita MARKOVITI, Research Fellow
In the beginning of 2017 I concluded the fieldwork conducted within the framework of Grassrootsmobilise and attended the team meeting held at Eliamep in February. During the rest of the year, I disseminated our findings through different conference presentations and invited talks (see below), as well as through a number of publications (some of which are forthcoming in 2018).
Presentations
On February 21, 2017, Effie Fokas and I gave a presentation at the Hellenic Observatory seminar series of the London School of Economics on ‘Religious Pluralism and Education in Greece’. On March 14, 2017, I was invited to give to talk at the ISOR (Research in Sociology of Religion) seminar at the Universitat Autonoma of Barcelona on ‘The Limits of Religious Diversity in the Public Sphere: Freedom of Religious Expression and Worship in the city of Athens’
On May 4, 2017, I presented at the Association for the Study of Nationalities (ASN) Conference at Columbia University, New York, on ‘The ECtHR as a venue for Greco-Turkish relations: The Treaty of Lausanne and the Muslim Minority in Western Thrace’. On July 7 I participated and gave a presentation as part of a Grassrootsmobilise panel in the International Society of Public Law (ICON- S) annual meeting, held at the University of Copenhagen. The title of my presentation was ‘Religious pluralism and Grassroots Mobilizations in Greece: The different uses of European Court of Human Right religion-related jurisprudence in national and local courts’. In the beginning of September I participated in the American Political Science Association conference held in San Francisco. As part of a Grassrootsmobilise panel, I presented on the ‘Legal recognition of religious minorities in Greece “in the shadow” of the ECtHR’. In the same month, I was invited to give a talk in a workshop taking place with the opening of an exhibition at the Museum of Photography of Thessaloniki, titled ‘Shared Sacred Sites in the Balkans and the Mediterranean: An International Workshop’, co-organized UC Berkeley, the CNRS and the Institut d’Ethnologie Mediteraneenne, Europeenne et Comparative. My talk was on ‘Religious Pluralism Now: Politics, Challenges, Success Stories’
Publications
‘The Intersection of State, Family and Church in Greece and Italy’. In Religion and Welfare in Europe: Gendered and Minority Perspectives, UK: Policy Press (with Lina Molokotos-Liederman), and the following book review: Trine Stauning Willert (2014), New Voices in Greek Orthodox Thought – Untying the Bond Between Nation and Religion. Historein, Vol. 16, pp. 189-192
2017. “Legal Provisions, Courts, and the Status of Religious Communities: A Socio-legal Analysis of Inter-religious Relations in Romania.” Religion, State and Society 45(3-4): 297-316 (first author; coauthored with Liviu Andreescu)
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Evangelia PSYCHOGIOPOULOU, Research Fellow
Dr Psychogiopoulou is research fellow at ELIAMEP and she also teaches at the Hellenic Open University. During 2017, she was involved in two projects on fighting corruption (ANTICORRP), and social media and convergence (COMPACT). She completed the research and writing of a comparative report on political finance international norms and domestic reform (together with Dia Anagnostou) and started research on two reports on social media, regulatory approaches and national case law in selected EU Member States. Evangelia is also the country coordinator of the implementation of the Media Pluralism Monitor (MPM) project in Greece. In 2017, she organised a workshop (together with Anna Kandyla) to present the findings of the 2017 MPM study for Greece. During the same year, she published an edited volume on European and national jurisprudence on privacy and the protection of personal data, and three journal articles on specific issues of media and cultural governance from a European perspective.
Events
2017, ‘Media Pluralism Monitor 2017: Introductory remarks and findings in Greece’, Workshop: Media pluralism in Greece: Assessment, challenges and new perspectives, Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy, Athens, Greece, 14 November 2017 2017, ‘EU cultural governance and its adequacy for strengthening the role of culture in a divided Europe’, Expert closed workshop: Beyond us versus them – The role of culture in a divided Europe, Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations (ifa), The State of Baden-Württemberg, European Union National Institutes for Culture (EUNIC), Brussels, Belgium, 2 May 2017 2017, ‘Cultural heritage in EU law and policies’, Conference: Cultural heritage in the European Union: Legal perspectives and contemporary challenges, Institute of Art of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland, 20-21 April 2017
Publications
Brkan, M., and E. Psychogiopoulou (eds) (2017), Courts, privacy and data protection in the digital environment, Edward Elgar
Psychogiopoulou, E., and A. Kandyla (2017), ‘Greece: Between systemic inefficiencies and nascent opportunities online’, in T. Eberwein, S. Fengler and M. Karmasin (eds), The European handbook of media accountability, 99-106, Routledge
Psychogiopoulou, E., and M. Brkan (2017), ‘Introduction: Courts, privacy and data protection in the digital environment’, in M. Brkan and E. Psychogiopoulou (eds), Courts, privacy and data protection in the digital environment, 1-9, Edward Elgar
Psychogiopoulou, E. (2017), ‘The ECtHR, privacy and data protection in the digital era’, in M. Brkan and E. Psychogiopoulou (eds), Courts, privacy and data protection in the digital environment, 32- 62, Edward Elgar
Psychogiopoulou, E. (2017), ‘The cultural open method of coordination: A new boost for cultural policies in Europe?’, 24(2) Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law 264-288
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Psychogiopoulou, E. (2017), ‘The “cultural” open method of coordination. Is it up to the job?’, 13(3) International Journal of Media and Cultural Politics 229-248
Psychogiopoulou, E., D. Anagnostou, R. Craufurd Smith and Y. Stolte (2017), ‘The freedom and independence of public service media in Europe: International standards and their domestic implementation, 11 International Journal of Communication 1936-1955 (special issue edited by R. Craufurd Smith)
D. Anagnostou and E. Psychogiopoulou (February 2017), ‘Why do some countries comply with the Group of States against Corruption and others do not? A study of political finance international norms and domestic reform’, Comparative report for the Anticorrp project, http://anticorrp.eu/wp- content/uploads/2017/08/D10.3_1_Compliance.pdf
Antonia Maria SARANTAKI,
Junior Research Fellow
Antonia-Maria Sarantaki is a PhD candidate in European Politics at Panteion University of Social & Political Sciences. She started working at Eliamep in November 2017. She is research assistant in the ‘CEASAVAL’ project (Evaluation of the Common European Asylum System under Pressure and Recommendations for Further Development – Horizon 2020). Her research will focus on the evaluation of the implementation of the instruments of the Common European Asylum System (CEAS). Accordingly, she will contribute to the project’s empirical and analytical work, such as research and dissemination activities as well as qualitative research with the conduct of interviews.
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Dimitri A. SOTIROPOULOS, Senior Research Fellow
In 2017 Dimitri continued his involvement in Greek and international research projects. With regard to ELIAMEP’s projects, he helped complete the last requirements for the EU project “Anticorrp” (antircorrp.eu) which ended in February 2017 and also re-wrote and prepared deliverables for the project “Fragmex” (fragmentation and exclusion, http://www.fragmex.eu/, joint publication of a Fragmex-edited volume, with D. Katsikas and M. Zafeiropoulou, due in 2018).
Presentations
“The Greek Civil Society and the Economic Crisis”, seminar given at the Hellenic Studies Program of Princeton University, Princeton, 20 Αpril 2017 “How Greek National History Has Shaped Welfare and Education Politics in Greece under the Economic Crisis”, paper delivered at the 24th Annual Conference of Europeanists, University of Glasgow, 12-14 July 2017 “Populism, Clientelism and Corruption: Three Mechanisms Depressing the Quality of Democracy in Western Balkans in Comparative Perspective”, paper delivered at the Balkan Political Science Association conference, University of Belgrade, 23-24 September 2017 “Big and Small, Strong and Weak States: the Greek State in a European Perspective Today”, paper delivered at the Alpha Bank Historical Archives’ International Workshop ‘Small States in History’, Corfu General State Archives, Corfu island, 6-8 Οctober 2017 “The Quality of Democracy and Democratic Backsliding in Europe”, keynote speech, University of Braga, Braga, Portugal, 17 Νοvember 2017 Publications Two books, i.e., a book in Greek: The Greek Civil Society and the Economic Crisis, Potamos, Athens 2017. And a Co-authored book in Greek: (with L. Christopoulos), Over-Regulation and Bad Regulation in Greece, Dianeossis, Athens 2017.
Three Articles:
(with Yannis Tsirbas), “Europe at the Epicenter of National Politics: The Attitudes of Greek Political Elites Towards the European Union and the Economic Crisis”, Historical Social Research, vol. 41, no. 4, 2017 , pp. 86-105 (with Roxana Bratu and Maya Stoyanova), “Through the Lens of Social Constructionism: The Development of Innovative Anti-Corruption Policies in Greece, Bulgaria and Romania”, Slavonic and East European Studies, vol. 95, no.1, 2017, pp. 117-150 “Reform Dynamics in Greek Democracy Today: Stagnation and Reform in Rule of Law, Mass Media and Social Inclusion”, Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, Athens Office, July 2017, http://library.fes.de/pdf- files/bueros/athen/13572.pdf
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Loukas TSOUKALIS, President of the Board of Directors
In January the launch event of the Greek edition of his book was held at the National Museum of Contemporary Art. The book was presented by Mr. Kyriakos Mitsotakis, President of New Democracy, Mr. Yannis Stournaras, Governor of the Bank of Greece, Mr. George Kaminis, Mayor of Athens, and Mr. Petros Markaris, writer, in a full house event attended by many prominent guests. In January, he gave a lecture ‘Can the European project be saved?’ at the Info Point of the European Commission, in Brussels. On February 15th, he participated in a panel discussion on Brexit and EU Foreign Policy with Prof. Karen Smith, organized by LSE and Megaron Plus. At the end of February, he took part in tow panel discussions at the 2017 Delphi Economic Forum. On March 14th, he was one of the discussants at the book presentation of ‘The Perfect storm’ written by Ambassador ret., Vassilis Kaskarellis. In March, he was one of the speakers in the celebration events of the 60 years after the ratification of the Treaty of Rome. He also spoke at a special event organized by Istituto Affari Internazionali in Rome in which he presented his book ‘In Defence of Europe’ together with the Under-Secretary for European Affairs of Italy, Mr. Sandro Gozi. On March 22nd, he gave the keynote lecture: ‘60 years after the Rome Treaty: time to reboot the European Project?‘, at the Egmont Royal Institute for International Relations in Brussels. On April 22nd, he was a discussant for the Annual Lecture of the Journal of Common Market Studies delivered by Professor Helen Wallace at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. On May 8th, he took part in a public discussion with Margaritis Schinas, Spokesman of the European Commission, on the future of Europe in an event held at the Old Parliament House in Athens. On June 2nd, he spoke at a conference on ‘Connectivity and the Future of European Integration’ at the University of Oxford. On June 8th, he was a keynote speaker at the European Roundtable 2017 on: ‘Profiling the European Union in Times of Change – How to safeguard and strengthen the EU’s values, principles and institutions?’ organized by Konrad Adenauer Stiftung in Lisbon. On June 20th, he spoke at the European Commission’s Reflection Group on the Future of the European Civil Service (GRASPE) on: ‘Europe’s Multiple Crises: An Increasingly Ungovernable Post-Modern Empire?’ and later on that day he participated in the concluding panel of the European Union Institute for Security Studies (EUISS) Annual Conference on: ‘European security, transatlantic relations, global challenges’. On June 22nd, he presented his book: ‘In Defence of Europe’ launching a series of book presentations of the 2017 ‘EPRS Book Talks’, in Brussels. On 3 and 4 July, he was a panelist at a conference organized by Policy Network and FEPS (Foundation for European Progressive Studies) at St. Catherine’s College, in Oxford. On 7-9 September he organized the 14th ELIAMEP’s European Seminar: ‘A turning point for European Integration?’. In October, he went on a long lecture tour of Australia and New Zealand. He delivered the Annual Lecture on Europe at the Hawke EU Centre of the University of South Australia in Adelaide, and also gave lectures at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch and the University of Oakland, New Zealand, the University of Melbourne, the Australian National University in Canberra and the University of Sydney. He also spoke to the Greek community in Melbourne and the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade of Australia in Canberra. In total, he gave nine lectures in six cities. On November 8th, he participated in the Strategic Council meeting of the European Policy Center (EPC) and the following day in a meeting on the Future of the EMU organized by the Foundation for European Progressive Studies (FEPS). On November 30th, he spoke at a roundtable discussion at a conference jointly organized by the Foundation for European Progressive Studies (FEPS) and the Fundación Alternativas on the future of the European Monetary Union, in Madrid. During the year, he wrote several articles and gave interviews to many newspapers and media in Greece and abroad.
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Rosa VASILAKI, Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Rosa Vasilaki Joined ELIAMEP in January 2017 to work as a research fellow on the project ‘RAD MONITOR: Monitoring Radicalisation in South-East and Central Europe’. In the framework of this project she translated and edited the publications produced by the project, i.e. a reader on radicalization, a situational analysis, a report on Greece and a validation study. She also organised and run (as a trainer) a two-days training on radicalization awareness and the use of indicators for frontline practitioners from the field of security forces. Since April, she is a research fellow and project manager for the project ‘INTEGRA: ‘Enhancing the Integration of Women, Beneficiaries of International Protection by Development and Implementation of Multifaceted Integration Trainings’. In the framework of the project, she has organised for Greece and participated in two study visits (Italy and Spain), in one international train-the trainers seminar (Bulgaria), produced a national study on the training needs on women refugees in Greece, and worked on producing a handbook on migrant and refugee women’s integration in Greece. During 2017, she also submitted proposals with an international consortium aiming at tackling far-right radicalization and counter-narrative campaigns against radicalization. Presentations 20 January 2017, Radio Interview, ERA 1, on the consequences of Brexit 20-21 February 2017 “Religious radicalization: indicators, risk assessment and best practices”, ELIAMEP (organiser and trainer) 21 February 2017, Radio Internview, ERA 1, on religious and political radicalization in Greece 4 April 2017, Radio Interview, ERA 1, on terrorist attacks in St Peterburg and the significance of religious violence today 7 June 2017, Radio Interview, 2017, ERA 1, on the terrorist attacks in Britain and the failures of integration 9 June 2017, Radio Interview, ERA 1, on British elections and their significance for the EU 4 September 2017, TV Interview, ANT1, on the state of radicalization, intergation effrots and the role of migrant communities in Greece 10 October 2017, “Greece and the Refugee Crisis, Challenges and Opportunities’, lecture for Europe Direct, Athens, Greece 27 November 2017, “Counter-radicalization efforts: mapping the terrain in Greece”, European Academy of Berlin and ELIAMEP, seminar for journalists, Patras, Greece 15 December 2017, “Reciprocal Radicalization in Greece today: assessing the interaction of extremism among young people’, Natioanl and Kapodistrian University, Athens, Greece Publications 2017 Conversations. The Promise of Humanities and Social Sciences (co-edited with E. Andiakaina), Athens: Pedio 2017 ‘“We Are an Image from the Future’: The Afterlives of the Athens 2008 Riots’, Acta Scientiarum, 39(2): 153-161.
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Board of Directors
President
Loukas Tsoukalis, Professor of European Organization, University of Athens
Vice President
Thanos Veremis, Professor Emeritus of History, University of Athens
Secretary General
Eleni Papakostantinou, Legal Advisor, Athens
Treasurer
Panagis Vourloumis, former Chairman of the Board of Directors & CEO – OTE S.A., Athens
Board Members
Costas Apostolidis, CEO and Chairman of the BoD, RAYCAP Pavlos Apostolidis, Ambassador (ad hon.), Former Director of the National Intelligence Agency and Former Minister of the Administrative Reform and E- Governance Ministry Eleni Dendrinou-Louri, Deputy Governor of the Bank of Greece Thanos Dokos, Director-General, ELIAMEP Eleftherios Economou, General ret., former Chief of the Hellenic Police Force, Former Minister of the Administrative of Public Order Ministry Achilleas Mitsos, Former Director-General, Directorate-General for Research, European Commission, Professor of International Economic Relations, University of the Aegean George Pagoulatos, Professor of European Politics and Economy, Department of International & European Economic Studies, Athens University of Economics & Business and Visiting Professor at the College of Europe, Bruges Alexis Papahelas, Managing Editor, Kathimerini, Athens Dimitrios Papalexopoulos, Managing Director of Titan Cement Company S.A.
Honorary Council
Theodore Couloumbis, Professor Emeritus, University of Athens George David, Chairman, Coca Cola 3Ε, Athens Nikiforos Diamandouros, European Ombudsman and Professor Emeritus, University of Athens Minos Zombanakis, President GISE A.G, Athens
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International Advisory Board
Peter Bofinger, Professor of Economics, Money and International Economic Relations, University of Würzburg; Member of the German Council of Economic Experts Kemal Dervis, Vice President, Brookings Institution, Washington DC; Former Minister of State for Economic Affairs, Turkey Shai Feldman, Professor, Director of Crown Center on Middle East Studies, Brandeis University Jeffry Frieden, Professor of Government, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University François Heisbourg, Chairman of the International Institute for Strategic Studies and of the Geneva Centre for Security Policy; Special Advisor, Fondation pour la Recherche Stratégique, Paris Bassma Kodmani, Executive Director, Arab Reform Initiative, Paris
Ivan Krastev, Chairman, Centre for Liberal Strategies, Sofia Roger Liddle, House of Lords; Chair, Policy Network, London
Mark Mazower, Professor of History, Columbia University, New York Dimitri B. Papadimitriou, President, Levy Economics Institute of Bard College, Jerome Levy Professor of Economics and Executive Vice President, Bard College, New York
Riccardo Perissich, Executive Vice President, Council of the US and Italy; Former Director General of the European Commission
Volker Perthes, Director, Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, Berlin Yezid Sayigh, Senior Associate, Carnegie Middle East Center, Beirut
Dmitri Trenin, Director, Carnegie Moscow Center Ivan Vejvoda, Permanent Fellow, Institute for Human Sciences (IWM)
Dame Helen Sarah Wallace, Emeritus Professor, European Institute, London School of Economics and Political Science/ Foreign Secretary and Vice President, British Academy Lan Xue, Cheung Kong Chair Professor, Dean of School of Public Policy and Management, Tsinghua University, Beijing / Director, China Institute for S&T Policy
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Advisory Committee
Dia Anagnostou, Assistant Professor, Department of Public Administration, Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences Othon Anastasakis, Senior Research Fellow in South European Studies; Director, St Antony’s South East European Studies at Oxford (SEESOX) Emmanouela Doussi, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science and Public Administration, University of Athens Spyros Economides, Director of the Hellenic Observatory, and Associate Professor in International Relations and European Politics, The London School of Economics and Political Science Janis Emmanouilidis, Senior Policy Analyst, European Policy Centre (EPC), Brussels Nikolaos E. Farantouris, Associate Professor, International European Studies Department, University of Piraeus. Chairholder of the Jean Monnet Chair on EU Law and Policies (Competition, Energy and Transport) Kevin Featherstone, Eleftherios Venizelos Professor of Contemporary Greek Studies, London School of Economics and Political Science Christos Gortsos, Professor, Department of International, European and Area Studies, Panteion University of Athens Aristides N. Hatzis, Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy & History of Science, University of Athens Maria Houkli, Journalist Asteris Huliaras, Professor, Department of Political Science and International Relations, University of the Peloponnese Panayiotis Ioakimidis, Professor Emeritus, Department of Political Science and Public Administration, University of Athens Alexis Heraklidis, Professor, Department of Political Science and History, Panteion University George Kaklikis, Ambassador (ad hon.) Stathis Kalyvas, Professor, Gladstone Professorship of Government, Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford Kostis Karpozilos, Historian and Director of the Archives of Contemporary Social History Antigoni Lymberaki, Professor, Department of Economic and Regional Development, Panteion University,Director General, SolidarityNow Alexandros Mallias, Ambassador (ad hon.) Constantinos Maniatopoulos, former Director General, Energy Division, European Commission Nikos Marantzidis, Professor, Department of Balkan, Slavic and Oriental Studies, University of Macedonia
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Manos Matsaganis, Associate Professor, Department of Architecture and Urban Studies (DASTU), Politecnico di Milano Konstantinos Mazarakis– Ainian, Honorary Chief Michael Mitsos, Foreign Affairs Editor, Columnist, TA NEA Newspaper Mikhail L. Myrianthis, Energy Expert Yannis Palaiologos, Journalist, Kathimerini Dimitris Platis, Ambassador (ad hon.) Dimitri A. Sotiropoulos, Professor, Faculty of Political Science and Public Administration, University of Athens Anna Triandafyllidou, Professor, Global Governance Programme (GGP), Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies (RSCAS), European University Institute Yannis Trifyllis, Member of the Management Committee, Naval Chamber of Greece Panos Tsakloglou, Professor, Department of International and European Economic Studies, Athens University of Economics and Business Ioannis Alexios Zepos, Ambassador (ad hon.)
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