Less than a year ago, the Greek crisis reached its highest level of tension. After arduous negotiations, the Greek government and its creditors signed the agreement for a third bailout in July 2015,which should provide liquidity to the Greek public sector in return for a severe programme of deficit adjustment and structural reforms. At the time of finalising this edited volume, the spectre of Grexit seems much less likely, although not yet impossible (especially if there is Brexit). After six years of painful austerity and the adoption of a number of structural reforms, the original sins of the Greek economy, the structural governance deficits of the eurozone and the imbalances between the European economies remain almost unchanged. The crisis that dominated the European debate in the summer of 2015 changed the perception of Greece and the EU for good.
The contents of this monograph aim at providing a comprehensive view on the changing landscape of both Greek and European politics as a consequence of the eurozone crisis. It presents the results of a research workshop jointly organised by CIDOB and ELIAMEP on December 18th 2015, which departed from the following hypothesis: If the Greek crisis became the epicentre of the eurozone crisis and Europe’s economic and monetary downturn became an existential threat to the European project, then the consequences of the crisis should have transformed the behaviour of Greek authorities towards Europe and of the European authorities in facing the crisis. In other words, Greece and the EU should have adopted new visions reflecting both the transformation of the Greek political scene and the eurozone’s response to a systemic crisis.
Publication contentINTRODUCTION
Pol Morillas and Thanos Dokos
MISSION IMPOSSIBLE OR AN ABSOLUTE BEGINNER? SYRIZA’S EUROPEAN POLICY CHOICES ON THE WAY TO GREECE’S 3rd BAILOUT PROGRAM
George Pagoulatos and Panagiotis Vlachos
AN OLD CRISIS, A NEW GOVERNMENT AND THE CREDITORS: “PLUS ÇA CHANGE PLUS C’EST LA MÊME CHOSE”?
Dimitris Katsikas
THE POLITICS OF SYRIZA IN EUROPE: FROM LEFT-WING RADICALISM TO POST-LEFT MANAGERIALISM
Filippa Chatzistavrou
THE GEOPOLITICAL DIMENSION OF THE GREEK CRISIS
Thanos Dokos
GREECE AND THE CRISIS: A HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE
Effie G. H. Pedaliu
EUROZONE GOVERNANCE AFTER GREECE: LESSONS LEARNED, LESSONS TO LEARN
Eleni Panagiotarea
EMU GOVERNANCE AND THE MEMBER STATES: LESSONS FROM FEDERATIONS AND OTHER COUNTRIES
Cinzia Alcidi
Place: Justus Lipsius building, Brussels
Chair(s): Henk Kamp, Minister for Economic Affairs of the Netherlands
Sander Dekker, State Secretary of Education, Culture and Science of the Netherlands
All times are approximate and subject to change
Thursday 26 May - Internal Market - Industry - Space Policy+/- 08.20
Doorstep by Henk Kamp
+/- 12.00
Working lunch debate on the digital single market strategy
+/- 14.00
Beginning of the Competitiveness Council meeting
Adoption of the agenda
Adoption of A Items (public session)
+/- 14.10
Digital single market strategy: mainstreaming competitiveness
Any other business (AOB):
Quantum technology - High performance computing
+/- 14.30
Draft regulation on cross border portability of online content (public session)
+/- 14.50
AOB: agenda for single market implementation
+/- 15.00
Competitiveness check-up
+/- 15.55
Better regulation to strengthen competitiveness
+/- 17.20
AOB: work programme of incoming presidency - Friends of Industry
+/- 17.30
AOB: Product safety and market surveillance package (public session)
+/- 17.45
Review of the posting of workers directive (public session)
(Break)
+/- 19.00
Uptake of space data
+/- 20.15
AOB: work programme of incoming presidency
+/- 20.30
Joint press conference of the Telecommunications and Competitiveness Councils (life streaming)
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Doorstep by Sander Dekker
+/- 09.30
Beginning of the Competitiveness Council meeting
+/- 09.40
FP7: final evaluation report and future outlook (public session)
+/- 10.00
Research and innovation friendly regulation (public session)
+/- 10.20
Transition towards an Open Science system (public session)
+/- 12.15
Any other business:
2016 ESFRI roadmap (public session)
European Innovation Council (public session)
Work programme of incoming presidency
+/- 13.00
Press conference (life streaming)
+/- 14.00
Working lunch debate on the European Research Area
Réfugiés : à Idomeni, ceux qui essaient de passer, ceux qui tentent de survivre
Violence policière à Idomeni : la frontière de la honte
Amnesty International : l'UE doit aider 46 000 réfugiés et migrants en Grèce
Crise des réfugiés : dans certains villages du nord de la Grèce, plus de migrants que d'habitants
Les dernières infos • #réfugiésbalkans : Idomeni, les évacuations ont repris
You can read here the article on the new prime minister of Turkey written by Research Fellow of ELIAMEP and Assistant Professor at the Department of Political Science, Bilkent University, Dr. Ioannis N. Grigoriadis. This commentary was published in Kathimerini on 24 May 2016.
May 24, 2016 (KHARTOUM)- The opposition Future Forces of Change (FFC) and the National Dialogue's Higher Coordination Committee (7+7) have agreed to continue joint meetings over inclusive dialogue and the African Union-brokered Roadmap Agreement.
The FFC coalition includes several parties that were part of the government controlled national dialogue, but they decided to suspend their participation in the process demanding to ensure freedoms and include the other opposition forces including the armed groups.
Speaking to journalists following the third meeting on Tuesday, Hamid Mumtaz of the ruling National Congress Party (NCP) and 7+7 member, said that both parties have agreed to continue discussions on the participation of the holdout political forces so as to ensure the inclusiveness of the dialogue process and to end the armed conflicts in Sudan.
In the meantime, FFC spokesperson, Ahmed Abu-al-Gasim, said that the joint committee decided to continue next week the discussion on the agendas in the hope of reaching an all-inclusive dialogue leading to end war in Sudan.
Last March, the chief mediator Thabo Mbeki encouraged the two sides to engage the discussions, hoping that the opposition FFC groups would join the process and contribute to hold an inclusive dialogue.
The armed groups and the National Umma Party (NUP) have refused to sign a roadmap he proposed asking for the inclusion of all the opposition groups and to ensure political freedoms.
In separate statements, the head of FFC media sector Mayada Suwar al-Dahab, described the meeting as "positive" adding that the two parties agreed on the inclusiveness of the dialogue and to continue discussions to include all the parties before to hold the National Dialogue General Assembly.
Last Monday the ruling NCP announced that the general assembly will be held next October with the participation of the willing political parties and armed groups.
FFC political secretary and deputy chairman of the Reform Now Movement (RNM) Hassan Rizq last week said the dialogue conference wasn't inclusive.
he further said that FFC sees that the outcome of the dialogue conference must be dealt with as a step towards the inclusive dialogue, saying the holdout opposition should develop their own proposals and then the two sides could reach joint recommendations.
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Am 28. Mai, dem Tag der offenen Tür der europäischen Institutionen, bieten der Europäische Rat und der Rat der Europäischen Union, die beiden Organe, in denen die Mitgliedstaaten der EU vertreten sind, von 10 bis 18 Uhr in ihrem Gebäude Führungen, Aktivitäten und Informationsstände an.
Führungen durch das GebäudeDie Besucher können in Begleitung von Mitgliedern des Personals den Spuren der Staats- und Regierungschefs der 28 Mitgliedstaaten durch das Ratsgebäude folgen - vom VIP-Eingang bis in die Sitzungssäle. Zwischen 10 und 17 Uhr finden Führungen in französischer, niederländischer, deutscher und englischer Sprache statt.
Informationsstände der MitgliedstaatenDie 28 Mitgliedstaaten haben einen gemeinsamen Stand; hier können die Besucher einen Einblick gewinnen, wie sich jedes Land an den Arbeiten der Union beteiligt, die verschiedenen Kulturen und Landschaften entdecken und sogar traditionelle Gerichte probieren. Manche Mitgliedstaaten bieten auch Volksmusik- bzw. Volkstanzvorführungen an, beispielsweise Zypern, Slowenien und Ungarn. Das vollständige Programm finden Sie auf der Website zum Tag der offenen Tür (Link am Ende dieser Seite).
Zentralarchiv / VertragsbüroDie Besucher können von den Archivaren des Rates erfahren, wie und wo die Verträge und andere wichtige europäische Vertragswerke unterzeichnet wurden. Zudem können sie die Originale oder Faksimiles einiger dieser historischen Dokumente sehen, beispielsweise das Original des 1975 unterzeichneten Abkommens zwischen den Staaten in Afrika, im Karibischen Raum und im Pazifischen Ozean und der Europäischen Wirtschaftsgemeinschaft oder eine originalgetreue Kopie des 1957 in Rom unterzeichneten Vertrags zur Gründung der Europäischen Wirtschaftsgemeinschaft.
Rat online: Die Besucher können sich an interaktiven Spielen beteiligen, überraschende Fakten über Europa erfahren, fotografieren und ihre Eindrücke vom Rat in den sozialen Medien mit ihren Freunden teilen.
Außerdem werden andere Einrichtungen und Institutionen der EU mit Informationsständen vertreten sein, etwa die Europäische Zentralbank (EZB), die Europäische Investitionsbank (EIB) oder Frontex. Auch die Mission EUNAVFOR MED Operation SOPHIA, die im Mittelmeer gegen Schleuser- und Menschenhändlernetze vorgeht, wird sich vorstellen.
Praktische HinweiseDer Tag der offenen Tür findet im Justus-Lipsius-Gebäude, Rue de la Loi 175, in Brüssel statt.
Wegen der derzeit in Belgien geltenden Sicherheitsstufe finden in der Umgebung der Institutionen zusätzliche Sicherheitskontrollen statt. Um diese Kontrollen zu erleichtern, werden die Besucher gebeten, keine Gepäckstücke oder anderen sperrigen Gegenstände mitzubringen.
Ferner wird empfohlen, die öffentlichen Verkehrsmittel zu benutzen. Übrigens wird ein kleiner Zug den ganzen Tag zwischen den Institutionen im Europa-Viertel hin- und herfahren.
Kontakt und Zugang für die PresseIm Interesse eines reibungslosen Zugangs werden Medienvertreter, die an diesem Tag in das Justus-Lipsius-Gebäude kommen möchten, gebeten, sich an den Pressedienst zu wenden, der ihnen gerne auch andere Fragen beantworten wird.
EU Ministers of European Affairs, Industry, Research and related areas meet in Brussels on 26 and 27 May 2016 to have a focus on the digital single market, including on the new proposal to ensure portability of online content services. Ministers are also invited to adopt conclusions on digital technologies and public services modernisation, as well as on open science.
EU Ministers for Transport, Infrastructure and Communications meet in Brussels on 26 May 2016 to adopt a general approach on a draft decision on the use of the ultra-high frequency (UHF) band (470-790 MHz) in the EU. Ministers are also holding a policy debate on the forthcoming review of the EU telecoms rules.
May 24, 2016 (RUMBEK) - At least three people were killed and two others sustained injuries in a revenge attack that occurred in Rumbek North county of Western Lakes state.
Officials say pastoralists from Tonj state crossed into Rumbek North county border and raided cattle, a move that provoked Rumbek North youth to raid Tonj state.
The two state governments have deployed security forces along suspect routes as a mechanism to avoid future raids.
Western Lakes state minister for local government and law enforcement, Benjamin Makuer confirmed the incident, but said security had been beefed along the borders.
“Our commissioner in Rumbek North [county] is implementing the order, he has so far collected 101 cows that were identified to be from Tonj state, which were raided by youth from Rumbek North [county]”, said Makuer.
“We shall make sure all cows are returned to Tonj,” he added.
Tonj state governor, Akec Tong Aleu had also instructed county commissioners bordering Western Lakes state to identity the cows raided from Rumbek to be collected and returned back to their rightful owners within two weeks.
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