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Fourth time in a row, the Navarino Network, the Cultural Association of Northern Greek Entrepreneurs and the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung Greece organized the Thessaloniki International Symposium to dicuss, with prominent experts, the current global challenges. The symposium took place on October 18, 2015, at Olympion Theatre in Thessaloniki. More than 400 guests followed the invitation to shed light on international affairs.

Below you will find the videos of the speeches given during the 4th Thessaloniki Symposium.

Welcoming Remarks

Dimitris Keridis, Director, Navarino Network

Stavros Andreadis, Chairman, The Cultural Society of Entrepreneurs of Northern Greece

Giannis Boutaris, Mayor of Thessaloniki

Susanna Vogt, Head of Greece Office, Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung

"The State of the European Union"

Key-note address by:

Joseph H. H. Weiler, President, European University Institute, Florence

"Greece and the Eurozone"

Joan Hoey,Senior Analyst & Regional Editor-Europe, The Economist Intelligence Unit, London

"The Eurozone after the Crisis" (recorded message)

Daniel Gros, Director, Centre for European Political Studies, Brussels

"NATO after Ukraine"

Ambassador Thrassyvoulos Stamatopoulos, Assistant Secretary General for Political Affairs and Security Policy, NATO, Brussels

"The Balkans today: A Progress Report"

Florian Bieber, Professor, University of Graz & Director, Centre for South East European Studies, Austria

Discussant:

Laza Kekic,Independent Consultant, formerly EIU Regional Director for Europe, London

"25 years of Post-Communist Transformations. Is it a Success Story?"

Grzegorz Ekiert, Professor, Harvard University & Director, Centre for European Studies, Boston

"Report on a Changing Middle East"

Anne Barnard,

Beirut Bureau Chief, The New York Times, Beirut

"The new Middle East after the Arab Spring"

Thanassis Cambanis, Journalist, Beirut & Adjunct Professor, Columbia University, New York

"The Kurdish Spring: Engaging Kurds against the Islamic State"

David L. Phillips, Director, Program on Peace-building and Rights, Institute for the Study of Human Rights, Columbia University, New York

"The Russia-West Relations after the Ukrainian Crisis"

Nadia Arbatova, Head, Department on European Political Studies, Institute for World Economy & International Relations (IMEMO), Moscow

Discussant:

Laza Kekic,Independent Consultant, formerly EIU Regional Director for Europe, London

Panels were chaired by:

•Pavlos Gkasis, Lecturer, The International Faculty of the University of Sheffield - CITY College, Thessaloniki

•Dimitris Keridis, Director, Navarino Network

•Susanna Vogt, Head of Greece Office, Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung

•David Wisner, Ph.D., Executive Director Michael and Kitty Dukakis Center for Public and Humanitarian Service, ACT