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 |
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| 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 |
