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For 8th year in a row, the Navarino Network, the Cultural Association of Northern Greek Entrepreneurs, and the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, Office Greece/Cyprus organize the Thessaloniki International Symposium in World Affairs. This year's Symposium bears the title "The world in 2020: Governing at a time of ungovernability". Prominent representatives of politics and the academia from around the world will analyze crucial questions in fields like economy, growth and security on regional, European and global level. The event will take place at Olympion, in the center of Thessaloniki (Aristotelous Square), on Sunday 20. October 2019, at 10:30.

Speakers

• Margaritis Schinas, Commissioner-designate nominated as European Commission’s Vice-President
• Anders Åslund, Senior Fellow, Atlantic Council, Washington
• Kevin Featherstone, Eleftherios Venizelos Professor in Contemporary Greek Studies and Professor in European Politics, London School of Economics
• Florian Bieber, Director, Centre for Southeast European Studies at the University of Graz
• Miroslaw Wyrzykowski, Judge of the Polish Constitutional Court (ret.)
• András Szalai, Research fellow, Center for European Neighborhood Studies, Central European University
• Anna Diamantopoulou, President, “DIKTIO” Network for Reform in Greece and Europe, Athens⃒ former EU Commissioner, Brussels
• Adonis Georgiadis, Minister of Development and Investment
• George Chouliarakis, former Alternate Minister of Finance
• Kostas Kostis, Faculty of Economics and Political Sciences, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
• Dimitris Keridis, Member of Parliament
• Dimitris Tsarouchas, Bilkent University
• Zoran Ilievski, Head of the Political Science Department of the Faculty of Law at Ss. Cyril   and Methodius University of Skopje
• Marcus Engler, Migration Researcher and Consultant, Berlin

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