Can Greece get itself out of the crisis? Problems of Reform Capacity
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Lunch debate introduced by Kevin Featherstone, Eleftherios Venizelos Professor of Contemporary Greek Studies and Director of the Hellenic Observatory, London School of Economics and Political Science. He is co-author of 'The Limits of Europeanization: Reform Capacity and Policy Conflict in Greece' (London, Palgrave, 2008) and of a number of books and articles on contemporary Greece and on the politics of the European Union. This debate is part of the "Ifri's Tuesdays in Brussels".
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