ECPR Press author holds high profile book launch

On Monday 13 January, one of the most provocative recent releases from ECPR Press, Eleni Panagiotarea's Greece in the Euro, received its official launch at the prestigious Onassis Cultural Centre in Athens.

In a packed Upper Stage, the author was joined by a stellar panel comprising (l-r) Loukas Tsoukalis, Jean Monnet Professor of European Organisation at the University of Athens and President of ELIAMEP; Minister of Administrative Reform Kyriakos Mitsotakis; and Gikas Hardouvelis, Professor of Finance and Economics at the University of Piraeus-Greece and Chief Economist of the EUROBANK Group.

The panel’s discussion attempted to unravel the interactive blame game that has been played between Greece and its Euro partners, and to highlight the complexities of reforming Greece and creating a more symmetrical Eurozone.

Dr Panagiotarea's book challenges the commonly held assumption that Greece was the delinquent eurozone member whose fiscal downfall nearly brought down some of the world's strongest economies and explores whether Greece was, in fact, the first victim of the Euro's system failure.

Keywords: European Union, Political Economy