Konstantinos Papanicolaou is a Phd student in the Department of Political Science and Public Administration of National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. He holds a BA in European and International Studies in University of Piraeus and a MA in European and International Studies from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. He participated in several research programmes, at the current period he is junior research fellow in the research programme “Towards a Citizens Union”. His main research interests include Global Political Economy and the External