Event |

Open Event: “Crisis Management and Democracy in EU and Latin America: Lessons Learned”

Date

							June 27, 2019						

Time

							08:45 - 16:00						

Location

							European Public Law Organization (EPLO) (2 Polygnotou and Dioskouron St., Plaka, 10555 Athens)						

Project

														Jean Monnet Network “Crisis-Equity-Democracy for Europe and Latin America”

Programme

08:45 – 09:15	Coffee and registration
09:15 – 09:30	Welcome / Introduction to the Network Dimitris Katsikas, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and ELIAMEP
09:30 -11.00	PUTTING THE EUROPEAN CRISIS MANAGEMENT TO THE DEMOCRACY TEST: EUROPEAN AND NATIONAL ASPECTS
	Chair: Christian Ghymers, IRELAC
	*The impact of European crises on Italian politics.*
	Eleonora Poli, Instituto Affari Internationali (IAI)
	*The Greek political system in the memoranda era: implications for democracy*
	George Andreou, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
	*The condition of Portuguese democracy before and after the Troika intervention*
	André Freire, ISCTE-IUL- Lisbon University Institute
	*EU’s legitimacy after the MoUs: The political legacy of an economic crisis*
	Dimitris Katsikas, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and ELIAMEP
11:00 – 11:15	Coffee Break
11:15 – 12:45	FROM ECONOMIC TO POLITICAL CRISES IN LATIN AMERICA: IMPLICATIONS FOR DEMOCRACY
	Chair: Stephanie Griffith Jones, Columbia University and IDS, Sussex University
	*Venezuela’s multiple crises – Can the international community avert the implosion of the country?*
	Kai Lehman, University of São Paulo
	*Brazil – The Fall of a Giant: Greed, Corruption and Abuse of Power* *undermining Democracy*
	Andrea Hoffmann, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro
	Bettina Guilherme, IRELAC
	*Challenges to Democracy in Latin America today*
	Olivier Dabène, Institut d’Etudes Politiques, Sciences Po
12:45 – 13:30	Light Lunch
13:30 – 14:15	KEYNOTE SPEECH: CRISIS AND THE FUTURE OF DEMOCRACY IN EUROPE
	Vivien Schmidt, Jean Monnet Professor of European Integration, Professor of International Relations in the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies and Professor of Political Science, Boston University Boston University
14.20 -15:50	ROUNDTABLE: ASSESSING THE RESULTS OF THE EUROPEAN ELECTIONS: THE WAY FORWARD FOR EUROPEAN INTEGRATION AND DEMOCRACY
	Loukas Tsoukalis (Chair), President of ELIAMEP and Sciences Po
	George Pagoulatos, Athens University of Economics and Business and ELIAMEP
	Christian Ghymers, President, IRELAC
	Stephanie Griffith Jones, Columbia University and IDS, Sussex University
15:50 – 16:00	Concluding Remarks Loukas Tsoukalis, President of ELIAMEP and Sciences Po