International Conference: Public Debt and Austerity Policies in Europe

Programme

Thursday, 10 March 2011

19.15-19.30
Opening of the Conference

• Coordinator: Rena Dourou, Member of the Political Secretariat of Synaspismos
• Responsible For European Policy, the Party of the European Left (EL) and International Relations
• Dimitris Vitsas, Secretary of the Central Political Committee of Synaspismos
• Nikos Petralias, Economist, Professor Emeritus at the University of Athens, President of the Nicos Poulantzas Institute

19.30-22.00
Public Event

• Yiannis Dragasakis, Economist, Former MP of SYRIZA- Greece
• Francois Delapierre, General Secretary of Parti de Gauche- France
• Pedro Paez, Economist, Banco del Sur, Former Minister of Finance of Ecuador
• Jose Luis Centella, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Spain
• Michael Schlecht, MP, Chief Economist of the Parliamentary Group of DIE LINKE in the Bundestag – Germany

Friday 11 March 2011
10.00-12.00
Consequences of the Crisis in Europe

• Coordinator: Panos Trigazis, Member of the CPC of Synaspismos – Greece
• Riccardo Bellofiore, Economist, Professor at the University of Bergamo – Italy
• Maria Karamessini, Economist, Associate Professor at Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences – Greece
• Michel Vakaloulis, Sociologist, Professor at University Paris VIII- France
• Giovanna Vertova, Economist, Assistant Professor at the University of Bergamo – Italy

12.00-14.00
Causes of the Debt Crisis in the Eurozone

• Coordinator: Spyros Lapatsioras, Economist, Lecturer at the University of Crete – Greece
• George Stathakis, Economist, Professor at the University of Crete – Greece
• Dimitris Sotiropoulos, Economist, Lecturer at the University of the Aegean – Greece
• Euclid Tsakalotos, Economist, Professor at the University of Athens – Greece
• Brigitte Unger, Economist, Professor at Utrecht University School of Economics (USE) – Netherlands

14.00-15.00
Lunch Break

15.00-17.00
The EU Policies for Debt Crisis Management

• Coordinator: Elena Papadopoulou, Economist, Researcher at the NPI – Greece
• Marica Frangakis, Economist, EuroMemo Group – Greece
• Vagelis Papahristos, Independent MP – Greece
• Theodore Paraskevopoulos, Economist, co-Director of the Parliamentary Group of SYRIZA- Greece
• Jan Toporowski, Reader in Economics at the University London (SOAS) -UK

17.00-19.00
Facets of the Crisis in Greece (I)

• Coordinator: Sissy Velissariou, Professor at the National Kapodistrian University of Athens, Vice President of NPI
• Yiannis Banias, Member of the Secretariat of AKOA, Former MP of SYRIZA
• Panagiotis Lafazanis, MP of SYRIZA
• George Maniatis, Professor of Mass Media, University of Athens
• Alexis Mitropoulos, Jurist, President Union for the Defense of Employment and the Welfare State

19.00 – 19.30
Coffee break

19.30-22.00
Facets of the Crisis in Greece (II)

• Coordinator: Olga Athaniti, Member of the Secretariat of AKOA
• Nikos Kotzias, Political Scientist, Professor at the University of Piraeus
• John Milios, Professor at the National Technical University of Athens, Member of the Political Secretariat of Synaspismos (Responsible for Economic Policy)
• Dimitris Papadimoulis, MP of SYRIZA, Former MEP of Synaspismos and GUE-NGL
• Sofia Sakorafa, Independent MP
• Yiannis Tolios, Economist (PhD), Member of the CPC of Synaspismos

Saturday 12 March 2011

10.00-12.30Resistances by the European Trade-Unions and Movements

• Coordinator: Yiannis Bournous, Member of the CPC of Synaspismos, Member of the EL Executive Board – Greece
• Nasos Iliopoulos, Secretary of the Central Council of the Youth of Synaspismos – Greece
• Alekos Kalivis, Trade-Unionist, Former Alternate President of GSEE – Greece
• Dominique Gianotti, Trade-Unionist, FSU- France
• Alexandra Strickner, Economist, ATTAC- Austria
• Terry Celleher, Representative of the Socialist Party of Ireland

12.30-14.30
Debt Crisis and Austerity Policies in the European Countries

• Coordinator: Natasa Theodorakopoulou, Economist, Member of the Executive Secretariat of the CPC of Synaspismos, Member of the Secretariat of the EL Executive Board
• Tamás Morva, Economist, Member of the Secretariat of the Hungarian Workers Party 2006
• Marianna Mortagua, Economist, Bloco de Esquerda, Portugal
• Javier Navasques, Professor at the University of Sevilla, Secretary of the Committee of Financial Affairs of the Communist Party of Spain

Representative of Sinn Fein, Ireland (tbc)

14.30 – 15.30
Lunch Break

15.30-17.30
For a Progressive Exit from the Crisis (I)

• Coordinator: Gabriel Sakellaridis, Economist, Economist, Member of the CPC of Synaspismos, Member of the Managing Board of NPI – Greece
• Elisabeth Gauthier, director of Espaces Marx, Member of the Managing Board of Transform! Europe network – France
• Nicos Houndis, MEP of SYRIZA and GUE/NGL – Greece
• Eric Toussaint, President of the Committee for the Annulment of the Debt of the Countries of the Third World (CADTM) – Belgium
• Michalis Tremopoulos, MEP of the Ecologists-Greens, European Greens – Greece

17.30-19.30
For a Progressive Exit from the Crisis (II)

• Coordinator: Ruurik Holm, Transform! Legal Representative – Finland
• Elmar Altvater, Political Scientist – Director of Left Forum, Member of ATTAC Germany
• Kunibert Raffer, Associate Professor at the Department of Economics, University of Vienna – Austria
• Yianis Varoufakis, Economist, Professor at the National Kapodistrian University of Athens – Greece
• Kostas Vergopoulos, Economist, Professor at the University Paris VIII – Greece

20.00-22.00
Public Event

• Coordinator: Haris Golemis, Director of the NPI, Member of the Board of Transform! Europe- Greece

20.00-20.15
EL Initiative for a European Development and Solidarity Fund

• Francis Wurtz, Former President of GUE/NGL- France

20.15 – 22.00
Exit Strategies from the Crisis. The Proposals of the European Left

• Pierre Laurent, National Secretary of the French Communist Party, President of the EL – France
• Oskar Lafontaine, Former Minister of Finance, Former co-President of DIE LINKE – Germany
• Alexis Tsipras, President of Synaspismos, Vice President of the EL – Greece

Organizing Committee:

Walter Baier, Yiannis Bournous, Mimis Dareiotis, Rena Dourou, Elisabeth Gauthier, Haris Golemis, Ruurik Holm, Konstantina Kintoni, Elena Papadopoulou, Gabriel Sakellaridis

Address:

Cine KerameikosKerameikou 58 & Marathonos 13

http://www.syn.gr
http://www.poulantzas.gr
http://www.european-left.org
http://www.transform-network.net