Dr. Ioannis Armakolas, Assistant Professor at the Department of Balkan, Slavic and Oriental Studies, University of Macedonia and Head of the South-East Europe Programme – ELIAMEP, participated in the public discussion entitled “Daring more Europe! – More democracy in the Western Balkans for a stronger European Union” that took place in Paris on the 5th of June 2019 and was organized by the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, the Fondation Jean-Jaurès, the Austro-French Centre for Rapprochement in Europe (CFA/ÖFZ) and the CIFE – Centre International de Formation Européenne.

The other participants were:

  • Radmila Shekerinska (Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Defense, Republic of North Macedonia)
  • Sébastien Gricourt (Director of the Observatoire des Balkans, Fondation Jean Jaurès)
  • Eva Ellereit (Director of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung Office in Skopje)
  • Florent Marciacq (Deputy Secretary General, Austro-French Centre for Rapprochement in Europe and Senior Fellow, Centre international de formation européenne)

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