Dr. Ioannis Armakolas, Head of South-EastEuropeProgramme and ‘Stavros Costopoulos’ Research Fellow at ELIAMEP, has participated at the international conference entitled “Cooperating for Security in the Western Balkans”. The conference was organised by the Atlantic Council of Albania in cooperation with the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung. Dr. Armakolas participated as a speaker at the second session entitled “On the Security Concerns of the Western Balkans and possible implications of the financial Euro-crisis”. The conference took place on 14 December 2012 in Tirana.