{"id":1339,"date":"2024-05-10T13:48:10","date_gmt":"2024-05-10T13:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/federalists.eu\/greece\/?p=1339"},"modified":"2024-06-07T15:19:51","modified_gmt":"2024-06-07T15:19:51","slug":"pivotal-discussions-on-the-future-of-european-integration-ahead-of-the-2024-european-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/federalists.eu\/greece\/pivotal-discussions-on-the-future-of-european-integration-ahead-of-the-2024-european-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"Pivotal discussions on the Future of European Integration Ahead of the 2024 European Elections"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Press Release<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Date: April 19, 2024<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Contact: Public Relations Office, UEF Greece<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Email: info@uef-greece.gr<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Pivotal discussions on the Future of European Integration Ahead of the 2024 European Elections<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Athens, Greece \u2013 In a significant prelude to the European elections of June 9, 2024, the <a href=\"https:\/\/uef-greece.gr\/category\/events\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>UEF Greece-\u0395\u0395\u03bd\u039f\u0395<\/strong><\/a><strong> <\/strong>in collaboration with <a href=\"https:\/\/idos.gr\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Institute of International Economic Relations (IIER)<\/a> hosted two key roundtable discussions aimed at deepening the dialogue on critical European challenges, as geopolitical shifts and urgent institutional reforms shape the landscape of European integration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The first event took place on April 1, 2024, at the IIER venue and brought together esteemed speakers such as <strong>Spyros Danellis<\/strong>, former MEP and member of the Spinelli Group, SYRIZA, <strong>Petros Kokkalis<\/strong>, MEP for the Greens, founder of COSMOS party, <strong>Marilena Koppa<\/strong>, Professor at Panteion University, former MEP, <strong>Napoleon Maravegias<\/strong>, Professor Emeritus at National Kapodistrian University of Athens, former Minister of Rural Development, <strong>Kostas Chrysogonos<\/strong>, MEP candidate, PASOK-Movement for Change. The discussion covered institutional changes, foreign policy and defense, fiscal-euro-social policy, climate change, and migration\/refugee challenges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The second roundtable, on April 8, 2024, same location, featured <strong>Panagiotis Ioakeimidis<\/strong>, Emeritus Professor of European Politics at the University of Athens, and <strong>Dimitris Tsiordas<\/strong>, journalist and Director of the Prime Minister's Press Office. Along with <strong>Nikos Farantouris<\/strong>, Professor of European Law, University of Piraeus, advisor to SYRIZA's president, <strong>Andreas Spyropoulos<\/strong>, Secretary of the Central Political Committee of PASOK-Movement for Change, <strong>Gabriel Sakellaridis<\/strong>, economist, responsible for political planning, candidate for New Left, they deliberated on the same thematic units, focusing on the pressing need for strategic and institutional reforms within the European Union.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These discussions were particularly timely, occurring in a period marked by geopolitical realignments in Europe and its neighboring regions. <strong>Charalambos Tsardanidis<\/strong>, Director of IDOS, Emeritus Professor at the University of Peloponnese and <strong>Daphne Gogou<\/strong>, lawyer, President of UEF Greece - EEnOE, member of the Executive Office of the European Federalists (UEF) acted as event moderators respectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Both events aimed to foster a constructive exchange of ideas and proposals that address the concerns of European citizens and provided insightful policy responses in anticipation of the upcoming European Elections in June 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Stay tuned for our future challenging events. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For more information visit our website <a href=\"https:\/\/uef-greece.gr\/category\/events\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pivotal discussions on the Future of European Integration Ahead of the 2024 European Elections Athens, Greece \u2013 In a significant prelude to the European elections of June 9, 2024, the UEF Greece-\u0395\u0395\u03bd\u039f\u0395 in collaboration with the Institute of International Economic Relations (IIER) hosted two key roundtable discussions aimed at deepening the dialogue on critical European [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":1350,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"network-partner":[],"subject":[58],"news_type":[13],"event-year":[151],"class_list":["post-1339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-elections","subject-greece","news_type-press-release","event-year-151"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/federalists.eu\/greece\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/federalists.eu\/greece\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/federalists.eu\/greece\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/federalists.eu\/greece\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/federalists.eu\/greece\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1339"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/federalists.eu\/greece\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1347,"href":"https:\/\/federalists.eu\/greece\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1339\/revisions\/1347"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/federalists.eu\/greece\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/federalists.eu\/greece\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/federalists.eu\/greece\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/federalists.eu\/greece\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1339"},{"taxonomy":"network-partner","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/federalists.eu\/greece\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/network-partner?post=1339"},{"taxonomy":"subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/federalists.eu\/greece\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/subject?post=1339"},{"taxonomy":"news_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/federalists.eu\/greece\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_type?post=1339"},{"taxonomy":"event-year","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/federalists.eu\/greece\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event-year?post=1339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}