Details

10.00h

Registration

10.30h-11.00h

Introduction

Dimitris Keridis,

Director, Navarino Network

Susanna Vogt,

Head of Greece Office, Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung

Nikos Efthymiadis,

Former President, Northern Greece Entrepreneurs Cultural Society

Welcoming remarks

Yiannis Boutaris,

Mayor of Thessaloniki

11.00h-12.00h

A vision for Europe

Elmar Brok

Member of the European Parliament, Chairman of the European Parliament Committee on Foreign Affairs

12.00h-13.30h

Europe and the Balkans 100 years after World War I

Laza Kekic

Regional Director for Europe, Economist Intelligence Unit

Gerald Knaus

Founding chairman, European Stability Initiative

13.30h-14.30h

Lunch break

14.30h-15.30h

Germany in Europe

Andreas Rödder

Historian, Professor at the University of Mainz

15.30h-17.00h

The crisis in Ukraine: What next?

Kataryna Wolczuk

Reader in Politics and International Studies, University of Birmingham

17.00h-17.30h

Coffee-break

17.30h-19.30h

Is the euro-crisis over? The challenges ahead

Daniel Gros

Director, Centre for European Policy Studies (recorded message)

Miranda Xafa

CEO, E.F. Consulting Ltd, Former member of the IMF Executive Board (recorded message)

Michael Massourakis

Chief economist, Alpha Bank

Wolfango Piccoli

Managing director, Teneo Intelligence