{"id":31995,"date":"2017-11-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-01T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eliamep.lncdoo.com\/activity\/etisia-dialexi-tou-hawke-eu-centre-tou-university-of-south-australia-me-thema-echei-mellon-i-evropaiki-enosi\/"},"modified":"2017-11-02T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-11-01T21:00:00","slug":"etisia-dialexi-tou-hawke-eu-centre-tou-university-of-south-australia-me-thema-echei-mellon-i-evropaiki-enosi","status":"publish","type":"activity","link":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/activity\/etisia-dialexi-tou-hawke-eu-centre-tou-university-of-south-australia-me-thema-echei-mellon-i-evropaiki-enosi\/","title":{"rendered":"Annual lecture of the Hawke EU Centre of the University of South Australia on: \u2018Does the European Union have a future?\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Economist and international relations expert Professor Loukas Tsoukalis speaking at the Hawke EU Centre Annual Lecture.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Despite recent turbulence, there are new signs of hope for a reinvigorated European Union according to leading EU expert Professor Loukas Tsoukalis.<\/p>\n

Speaking at the Hawke EU Centre Annual Lecture<\/a> in October, economist and international relations expert, Prof Tsoukalis described the EU as highly resilient.<\/p>\n

Heralded as Greece’s \u201cgreatest living public intellectual\u201d, Prof Tsoukalis is Professor of European Integration at the University of Athens<\/a> and president of the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP)<\/a>.<\/p>\n

He has studied and taught at universities across Europe including the University of Manchester<\/a>, the College of Europe<\/a> in Bruges, and the University of Oxford<\/a>, where he completed his PhD. In 2016, he was Visiting Professor at the Kennedy School at Harvard University<\/a> and among many publications on European international relations, he has recently published In Defence of Europe: Can the European Project Be Saved?<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Prof Tsoukalis says the challenges the European Union has faced since the devastating Global Financial Crisis of 2007-2008, have come thick and fast \u2013 the decline of the value of the Euro, the burgeoning refugee crisis, and most recently the Brexit vote in the UK.<\/p>\n

Despite these challenges, he says fear of European nations having to go it alone and the underlying resilience of the union have brought new hope.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe extraordinary political success of pro-Europe French President Emmanuel Macron, demonstrates a new era of optimism surrounding the European project,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt will be essential that this pro-EU sentiment materialises into European reform to strengthen the Union.<\/p>\n

\u201cNow what we need is to see new agreements reached between France and Germany, the de facto leaders of the EU, in the post Brexit environment.<\/p>\n

\u201cOnly through such reforms, can the European project continue to provide a source of peace, democracy, and rising living standards.\u201d<\/p>\n

UniSA\u2019s Hawke EU Centre lecture was attended by more than 300 people including the Consul General for Greece and representatives of the State Government.<\/p>\n

You can listen to Prof Tsoukalis give a talk on the same topic on ABC\u2019s Big Ideas<\/a> radio program.<\/p>\n

Source: University of South Australia<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n

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