From crisis to opportunity

Katerina Sokou writes about the symbolism and substance of Kyriakos Pierrakakis’ election to the presidency of the Eurogroup through the lens of the lessons learned from Greece’s sovereign debt crisis. She highlights how the new president’s personal trajectory is inseparable from Greece’s collective effort to emerge from the crisis, and how European power dynamics, Greece’s economic performance, and political timing combined to produce an outcome that goes beyond the individual and reflects the evolution of the euro area itself.

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