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On the 29 and 30 September EUREL (EUrope-RELigion) held an international conference on the theme ‘Governance and Religion’ at the University of Luxembourg. The Grassrootsmobilise programme was represented by Alberta Giorgi, researcher for the Italian case study, whose presentation ‘The legal status and strategic action of religious minorities in Italy: localized human rights’ discussed some of the preliminary results of her fieldwork research on religious minorities in Italy.

The conference programme is available here.

Research Fellow of ELIAMEP Dr Filippa Chatzistavrou contributed to IEMed Mediterranean Yearbook 2016 with a chapter on the 3d Greek bailout. You can access her contribution by clicking here.

Director General of ELIAMEP Dr Thanos Dokos wrote an article on Huffington Post on Greek-Turkish relations. The article is available here (in Greek).

You can read here the article on the Cyprus Question, which was written by Professor Emeritus and Member of the Board of Trustees of ELIAMEP Theodore Couloumbis. This commentary was published on 2 October 2016 in the Sunday edition of Kathimerini. It is available in Greek.

On Tuesday 4 October 2016, Dr Eleni Panagiotarea, Research Fellow of ELIAMEP, gave at talk at the London School of Economics on the Greek economy and NPL. You can find here more information.

Professor Thanos Veremis wrote an article in the Greek daily newspaper ‘To Ethnos’ on Erdogan’s policies. The article was published on 30 September 2016 and is available here (in Greek).

Director General of ELIAMEP, Dr Thanos Dokos, spoke on Athens-Macedonian News Agency regarding recent comments made by President of Turkey, Tayip Erdogan, on the Treaty of Lausanne. You can read here an excerpt.

This Research Brief presents findings in relation to refugees and migrants who traveled via the Eastern Mediterranean Route from Turkey to Greece during 2015. The research took place in collaboration with ELIAMEP between September 2015 and January 2016

The Brief focuses on four main themes: a) The factors affecting the decision to leave, b) Journeys and routes taken to reach Greece, c) Intended destinations of those migrating, and d) the use of smugglers to facilitate the journey. Υοu can find here more information.

The book Aftermath of the Ukrainian Crisis edited by Dr Panagiota Manoli, Assitant Professor Panagiota Manoli, Head of the Programme of Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies of ELIAMEP  was published by Routledge. The book has contributions by Hanna Shelest, Theodoros Tsakiris, Nadia Alexandrova-Arbatova, Alexey Gromyko, Sharyl Cross, Steven Blockmans and Ino Afentouli. Contributions in this edited volume attempt to address a number of key aspects of the Ukrainian issue. How does the crisis impact upon Black Sea geopolitics and on regional governance? How can EU – Russia relations evolve under the new multipolar system? How is NATO affected? How important is the energy parameter in Russia-Ukraine-EU triangle? This edited volume aims to discloses the diverse narratives on the roots, evolution and repercussions of the crisis, indicating the extent of its complexity and highlighting important parameters of the Ukrainian issue. This book was originally published as a special issue of Southeast European and Black Sea Studies.

You can find more information here.

You can read here the article on the Cyprus Question, which was written by Director General of ELIAMEP Dr Thanos Dokos. This commentary was published in the Greek daily Kathimerini on 21 September 2016 [in Greek].

At the aftermath of the financial crisis, both elites and citizens have had to rethink the nature of the market, the role of the state as a market regulator and as a provider of welfare, the role of political parties in representing society’s main political and social cleavages, the role of civil society in voicing the concerns of citizens, and the role of the citizen as the ultimate source of power in a democracy but also as a fundamentally powerless subject in a global economy. However, this new book edited by Pablo Iglesias-Rodriguez, Anna Triandafyllidou and Ruby Gropas shows that the changes carried forward are at best partial and incomplete. We propose the notion of ‘incomplete paradigm shift’ to analyse this situation and argue that instead of radical reforms we are witnessing today the stillbirth of a new political and economic paradigm.

You can find more information here.

You can read here the article on the SYRIZA administration, which was written by Professor George Pagoulatos. The commentary was published on 18 September 2016  in the Sunday edition of Kathimerini and is available in Greek.

On 16 September 2016 The Economist made a particular reference to Professor Tsoukalis’ new book ‘In Defence of Europe’. You can read the article here.

France awarded a prestigious distinction to the President of the Hellenic Foundation for European & Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP), Professor Loukas Tsoukalis. The President of the French Republic has named Loukas Tsoukalis Chevalier dans l’Ordre national de la Légion d’honneur for his contribution to the reflection on the future of the Union and his exceptional engagement in European integration.

This distinction and the explicit recognition of a life’s work reflects positively on Loukas Tsoukalis, but also on ELIAMEP and Greece itself, at a time where the country’s European image has been tarnished.

The Fourth ICLARS Conference on “Freedom of/for/from/in Religion: Differing Dimensions of a Common Right?” took place from the 8th to the 11th of September at St. Hugh’s College in Oxford. The Conference featured a number of leading scholars presenting on a broad spectrum of interesting themes; the Grassrootsmobilise researchers participated with their panel on “Freedom(s) of Religion and the Jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights”, based on the preliminary results of their fieldwork research on the uses of ECtHR religion-related case law in national high courts.

You can find further information here.

Dimitri A. Sotiropoulos has accepted a visiting professorship for one month (mid-September to mid-October 2016) at Sciences Po, in Paris. During his stay at the Sciences Po, he will continue his research on democracy in the Western Balkans. Ηe will give two seminars at the “Laboratoire interdiscplinaire d’ evaluation des politiques publiques” (LIEPP), where the quality of democracy is a major research topic. Τhe topics of his seminars will cover the Western Balkans and separately the on-going crisis in Greece.

You can find more information here.

President of ELIAMEP, Professor Loukas Tsoukalis, commented about the European debt crisis on Al Jazeera. The article was published on 10 September 2016 and is available here.

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The 19th issue of the Middle East-Mediterranean Report deals with the economic cooperation between Greece and the Muslim world. It, inter alia, analyses the role of Greek  companies in the reconstruction of Gaza, and business collaboration between Greece and Iran.

On the occasion of the organisation of a debate by  LOMIGRAS research team on Tuesday 5 September 2016, Greek media reported on findings of the programme (in Greek). You can read examples on: in.gr, Kathimerini, Euro2day.