Speaker

George Pagoulatos

Ambassador of Greece to the OECD

Professor of European Politics & Economy, Athens University of Economics and Business (AUEB); Visiting Professor, College of Europe, Bruges

George Pagoulatos is Director General of the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP), Professor of European Politics and Economy at the Athens University of Economics and Business (AUEB), and Visiting Professor at the College of Europe in Bruges. He is an advisor on European affairs to the President of the Hellenic Republic, and in 2011-12 he served as senior advisor and director of strategy at the PM Office under Greece’s two non-political prime ministers and coalition governments. He has been a member of the Governing Board of the Brussels-based European Policy Centre (EPC) (2015-20), a member of the High Council of the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence (2010-13), and President of ECSA-Greece (2013-14). Author of several books and many articles, he is a regular columnist in the Sunday edition of the main Greek centrist newspaper Kathimerini. Pagoulatos holds a Law degree from the University of Athens, M.Sc. and D.Phil. in Politics from the University of Oxford, where he was a Rhodes scholar. He is the Citizens Representative for Greece in the Conference on the Future of Europe (2021-22).

Thursday 12 | 10

Sofitel Brussels EuropeThu 12 | 10

A necessity during the pandemic and the energy crisis, the general escape clause of the EU Stability and  Growth Pact is likely to be deactivated at the end of 2023. Is the European economy ready to return to fiscal  discipline? How does such an event influence the debt-sensitive economies of Southern Europe?