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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 30 November 2016 [in Greek].

The Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP), in collaboration with the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights (NCHR) of the University of Oslo, organizes a workshop on: ‘European Courts, New Technologies and Fundamental Rights’.

The event will be held in English, on Friday, 9 December 2016, from 9:00 to 15:30, at Electra Metropolis Hotel (15 Mitropoleos str., Athens).

The workshop will bring together experts from Norway, Greece and other European countries. It will be closed to the public but representatives of civil society and policy-makers will be invited to attend it.

The event is funded by the EEA Grants NGO Programme in Greece ‘We are all Citizens’ (3rd call for proposals for bilateral initiatives – measure b).

For more information, please contact:

Ms. Aimilia Kontogianni, Τ: 210 7257 123, F: 210 7257114, E-Mail: aimilia.kontog@gmail.com

A roundtable discussion was organised by The Crisis Observatory of the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP) on November 29th on the occassion of the book publication by professor Zafiris Tzannatos entitled: “Greece of Memoranda: 2010-2012. The numbers, the programme and the international experience from 1980″.

The discussion was coordinated by Professor Loukas Tsoukalis, and was held at ELIAMEP’s offices with the participation of academics, researchers and representatives of social organizations.

Director General of ELIAMEP Dr Thanos Dokos wrote an article on Huffington Post on scenarios for a resolution of the Cyprus Question . The article is available here (in Greek).

Associate Professor  at the University of Athens and  Senior Research Fellow at ELIAMEP Dimitri A. Sotiropoulos wrote an article on violence, technology and justice in the Sunday edition of To Vima newspaper. The article was published on 27 November 2016 and 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 27 November 2016 in the Sunday edition of Kathimerini. It is available in Greek.

Working Paper 77/2016 written by postdoctoral Fellow of ELIAMEP Dr Dimitris Skleparis is based on the findings of LOMIGRAS research project. In particular, it focuses on longstanding migrants who began to settle in the country since the late 1980s and especially the 1990s. It also analyses migrant integration policies across four municipalities in Greece (Athens, Thessaloniki, Patras, Heraklion) and three policy domains (legal-political, social-economic, and religious-cultural).

Keywords:

Migration, Integration, Inclusion, Local Government, Municipalities

Professor Loukas Tsoukalis, President of ELIAMEP spoke on Proto Thema newspaper on role of think tanks. You can access the interview here (in Greek).

On Monday 28 November, at 20:00 Director General of ELIAMEP Dr Thanos Dokos will give a talk at the ‘House of Cyprus’ on the occasion of a book launch event on Turkey in the Eastern Mediterranean. The book is authored by Zenon Tsiarras and Nikos Moudouros. You can find here the invitation (in Greek).

In this book chapter, included in a offical publication of the Greek Parliament which has just been out, Giorgos Tsiridis and Dimitri A. Sotiropoulos map the different, formal and informal, more institutionalized and less institutionalized, segments of civil society in 1967-1974, under the Colonels’ Regime. Using material from interviews with 30 members of the Greek resistance, they show how civil society developed under an authoritarian political regime, exploiting all opportunities to mobilize and adapting to changing circumstances of political oppression.

Τhe publication is available here (in Greek).

You can read here the article on new developments in the Eastern Mediterranean after Trump’s victory, which was written by Director General of ELIAMEP Dr Thanos Dokos. This commentary was published in Kathimerini on 16 November 2016 [in Greek].

MEDMIG Research Brief: ‘Understanding the dynamics of migration to Greece and the EU’ is included in Think Tank Review of the Council of the EU (p. 37).

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.

You can read here the article on the vistory of Donald Trump, which was written by Director General of ELIAMEP Dr Thanos Dokos. This commentary was published in Kathimerini on 11 November 2016 [in Greek].

Research Fellow of ELIAMEP, Dr Panagiota Manoli, contributes with a chapter titled: ’A Structural Foreign Policy Perspective on the European Neighbourhood Policy’ in the volume Theorizing the European Neighbourhood Policy. The new book is edited by Sieglinde Gstöhl and Simon Schunz and published by Routledge. You can find here more information.

ELIAMEP provides the channel for recruiting Greek students for the Master’s Programme at the College of Europe through the Greek Selection Committee for the College of Europe, which operates on the ELIAMEP premises. The College of Europe is a centre of academic excellence, with five programmes, leading to a Master’s degree. It operates in two campuses, in Bruges (Belgium) and Natolin (Poland). The five one-year programmes are: Politics and Administration, Law, Economics as well as EU International Relations and Diplomacy in Bruges, and the “European Interdisciplinary Studies: The Internal and External Dimensions of the EU” programme in Natolin.

Applying: The requirements for admission are a relevant University degree of good standard and working knowledge (writing and speaking) of English and French.

Closing date for applications is January 18th, 2017. Interviews for short-listed candidates take place in April / May in Athens by the Greek Selection Committee. Application files should include the documents (in English or in French) listed below:

1. The Application Form of the College of Europe, to be submitted online.

2. a CV indicating the totality of your studies as well as the grades obtained.

3. a certified copy of your degree(s) (if you are not yet in possession of your final degree, please send it as soon as it is available).

4. a transcript from your University, Faculty, School, detailing results for every year of your studies and grades obtained.

5. 2 letters of recommendation from two of your university professors.

No other documents are required. Please note that applications which are not complete, especially with respect to the certificates detailing the results of your studies and the marks obtained cannot be taken into consideration. Please also note that the Master’s Degrees awarded from the College of Europe are recognized from the National Academic Recognition Information Center (NARIC).

Applications should be sent electronically to the College of Europe

For further information and a brochure, do not hesitate to contact Ms. Matina Meintani, tel: +30 210 360 7611, email: ltsoukalis_assistant@eliamep.gr.

ELIAMEP researchers Evangelia Psychogiopoulou and Anna Kandyla participated in the “Media Pluralism Monitor 2016 (MPM2016) Final Workshop & Final Conference”, which took place on November 3 and 4, 2016 respectively in Florence. Both events were hosted by the coordinator of the MPM2016, the Centre for Media Pluralism and Media Freedom at the European University Institute. The final workshop was confined to the participation of project partners and aimed at discussing implementation issues. The open conference on the next day focused on presenting the findings from the first pan-European implementation of the MPM2016 carried out in 2016 in the EU Member-States, Turkey and Montenegro. ELIAMEP researchers presented key findings from the application of the MPM2016 in Greece and contributed actively to the discussions about fine-tuning the tool for the future. The agenda of the conference is available here. You may watch the conference here.

You can read here the article on the vistory of Donald Trump, which was written by Director General of ELIAMEP Dr Thanos Dokos. This commentary was published on in.gr on 9 November 2016 [in Greek].

Τhe Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP) organized οn 3-4 November 2016 a Workshop of the Mercator European Dialogue in cooperation with The Global Turkey in Europe programme: “EU-Turkey Relations Between the Refugee Crisis and the Failed Coup”.

The event focused on the current state of relations between Turkey and the EU, including the agreement for the management of the refugee and migration crises. The participants had the chance to discuss relations between Turkey and the EU and share their perspectives with colleagues from other European Parliaments and experts.

The Mercator European Dialogue is run by Stiftung Mercator and The German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF) in Germany, in collaboration with the Istituto Affari Internazionali (IAI) in Italy, the Barcelona Centre for International Affairs (CIDOB) in Spain and the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP) in Greece.

You can read here the article on the recent decision by the Council of State concerning media landscape in Greece, which was written by Professor George Pagoulatos. The commentary was published on 29 October 2016  in the Sunday edition of Kathimerini and is available in Greek.