With Kevin Featherstone, Eleftherios Venizelos Professor of Contemporary Greek Studies and Professor of European Politics & Director of the Hellenic Observatory (LSE), and Henrik Enderlein, Director of the Jacques Delors Institut - Berlin & Professor of Political Economy at the Hertie School.
Moderation: Mark Schieritz, Finance & Political Economy Correspondent at Die Zeit
A joint event of the Hertie School, the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), and the Jacques Delors Institut - Berlin.
Greece is once again locked in heated negotiations with its creditors to keep its economy solvent. A deal for a new round of funding can only be reached in exchange for further reforms. But will the Greek government actually be able to implement substantive reforms, particularly in the areas of tax administration, welfare and government corruption? Should the EU simply insist on a ‘reforms for loans’ trade-off or is there a bigger role for the EU to play in fostering domestic reform? Are the reforms a one-sided affair or should the Eurozone rethink the pace of fiscal consolidation? With a Greek exit from the Eurozone on the line, answers to these questions are of the utmost importance over the weeks to come.
Kevin Featherstone is Eleftherios Venizelos Professor of Contemporary Greek Studies and Professor of European Politics. He is the long-term Director of the Hellenic Observatory and Co-Chair of LSEE: Research on South-East Europe within the European Institute. Between 2004 and 2007, and then 2012/13, he also served as Director/Head of the European Institute. He has held visiting positions at the University of Minnesota; New York University; and Harvard University. Before LSE, he held academic posts at the universities of Stirling and Bradford. In 2009/10 he served on an advisory committee for the reform of the Greek government. He is the first foreign member of the National Council for Research and Technology (ESET) in Greece. He is also Vice-Chair of the Academic Council of 'Atomium Culture', Brussels, a not-for-profit promoting collaboration within the European Research Area.
His research has focused on the politics of the European Union and the politics of contemporary Greece; his work has been framed in the perspectives of comparative politics, public policy, political economy and processes of 'Europeanization'. His main books on the EU have involved a comparison of socialist parties' approaches to European integration; relations between the US and EU; the negotiations leading to the Maastricht agreement on EMU; and, the politics of 'Europeanisation'. On Greece, he has co-authored or edited books on political change after 1974; Greece after the Cold War; Greece and the challenges of 'Europeanisation'; the limits of Europeanisation in Greece; a history of the Muslim/Turkish minority in Western Thrace; and most recently, the domestic meanings of 'Europe' in Greece. He is currently co-authoring a new monograph on the problems of control and coordination within the Greek core executive.
Henrik Enderlein is Director of the Jacques Delors Institut - Berlin and Associate Dean and Professor of Political Economy at the Hertie School of Governance. He holds degrees in economics and political science from Sciences Po, Paris and Columbia University, New York. He completed his PhD at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne. From 2001-2003, he worked as an economist in the Directorate International and European Relations of the European Central Bank in Frankfurt, before taking up a Junior Professorship in Economics at the Free University Berlin. Henrik Enderlein's awards include the Max Planck Society's Otto-Hahn Medal for outstanding achievements by young scientists, a Fulbright Distinguished Chair at Duke University's Political Science Department in 2006-2007, and the Pierre Keller Visiting Professorship at Harvard Kennedy School in the Academic Year 2012-2013.
Mark Schieritz is a finance and political economy correspondent at Die Zeit. He started his career in journalism at the Financial Times Germany and has been writing for Die Zeit since 2008. The magazine ‘Wirtschaftsjournalist’ named Mark as one of the Finance Journalists of the Year 2011 for his coverage of the euro crisis. In his latest book ‘Die Inflationslüge: Wie uns die Angst ums Geld ruiniert und wer daran verdient’ (2013), he passionately argues in favour of overcoming the irrational German fear of hyperinflation and for re-evaluating the measures taken against the financial crisis. Mark studied politics and economics at the University of Freiburg and the London School of Economics.
