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Published: Tuesday, 04 March 2014 17:44
Dublin City University (DCU) transform! Europe
International Conference
Challenging the Rule of Troika, Transforming Europe
Dublin, 10 March 2014
Venue: Room AG01 (Ballymum Road etrance) DCU Campus Map
09:00 – 09:15: Arrival
09:15 – 09:30: Welcome
Dr John Doyle, Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Dublin City University (Ireland), Professor Helena Sheehan, Professor Emerita, Dublin City University (Ireland), Haris Golemis, Economist, Legal Representative of transform! europe, Director of Nicos Poulantzas Institute (Greece)
09:30 – 11:30: Economic and Social Consequences of Memoranda I
Maria Karamessini, Professor of Labour Economics and Social Policy, Panteion University (Greece), Michael Taft, Economist, UNITE Trade Union (Ireland), Rafael Munoz de Bustillo Liorente, Professor of Applied Economics, University of Salamanca (Spain)
Moderator: Professor Helena Sheehan, Professor Emerita, Dublin City University (Ireland)
11:30 – 11:45: Coffee Break
11:45 – 13:45: Economic and Social Consequences of Memoranda II
Marisa Matias, Economist, MEP of the Left Block (Portugal)-GUE/NGL, Vice President of the Party of the European Left, Professor David Jacobson, Emeritus Professor of Economics, Dublin City University (Ireland), Panagiotis Pandelidis, Economist, Committee for a Radical Left Rally (Cyprus)
Moderator: Elena Papadopoulou, Economist, Nicos Poulantzas Institute (Greece), Economists΄ Group of transform! europe
13.45 – 14:30: Lunch Break
14:30 – 16:30: Social Resistances and Political Alternatives at National and European Level I
Marga Ferre, Secretary of the Programme Committee of the United Left (Spain), Paul Murphy, MEP, Socialist Party (Ireland)-GUE/NGL, Sotiris Vlachos, Economist Bi-Zonal Peace Platform (Cyprus)
Sotiris Vlachos, Peace Platform United Cyprus, University of Cyprus (Cyprus)
Moderator: Dr. Walter Baier, Economist, Transform! Austria (Austria), Coordinator of transform! Europe
6:30 – 16:45: Coffee Break
16:45- 18:45: Social Resistances and Political Alternatives at National and European Level II
Mary Lou McDonald, TD, Sinn Fein (Ireland), Euclid Tsakalotos, Professor of Economics, University of Athens, MP, SYRIZA (Greece), Mariana Mortagua, Economist, MP, Left Block (Portugal)-GUE/NGL,
Moderator: Haris Golemis, Economist, Legal Representative of transform! europe, Director of Nicos Poulantzas Institute (Greece)
18:45 – 19:00: Break
Venue: Room HG20 (Collins Avenue entrance) DCU Campus Map
19.00 – 20:00: A Left Political Alternative for the Refoundation of Europe
Alexis Tsipras, President of SYRIZA (Greece), Vice President of the Party of the European Left, Candidate for the Presidency of the European Commission
Ireland—Dublin, in particular— is the new visit destination of Alexis Tsipras, travelling at the beginning of next week in his capacity as candidate of the European Left for the presidency of the European Commission. He will be a guest of Dublin City University.
Alexis Tsipras will be the key-note speaker at an international conference organized in conjunction by Dublin City University and the European network Transform! Europe under the over-all title: ‘Challenging the Rule of Troika, Transforming Europe’.
In what is expected to be an upbeat event, where the economic and the social implications from the memoranda in Greece, Ireland, Cyprus, Portugal, and Spain will be examined; but also the forms of resistance and the political alternatives, both at the national as well as the European level, will be discussed, an abundance of political and social representatives and intellectuals will be attending.
To mention indicatively only a few,
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From Ireland: Dr John Doyle, Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Dublin City University; Michael Taft, Economist, UNITE Trade Union; Mary Lou McDonald, TD, Sinn Fein; and Paul Murphy, MEP, Socialist Party.
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From Portugal: Mariana Mortagua, Economist, MP, Left Block (Portugal)-GUE/NGL, Marisa Matias, Economist, MEP of the Left Block (Portugal)-GUE/NGL, Vice President of the Party of the European Left.
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From Spain: Rafael Munoz de Bustillo Liorente, Professor of Applied Economics, University of Salamanca (Spain); and Marga Ferre, Secretary of the Programme Committee of the United Left
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From Cyprus: Sotiris Vlachos, Economist Bi-Zonal Peace Platform
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From Greece--in addition to Alexis Tsipras, of course--Maria Karamessini, Professor of Labour Economics and Social Policy, Panteion University; Elena Papadopoulou, Economist, Nicos Poulantzas Institute; Euclid Tsakalotos, Professor of Economics, University of Athens, MP, SYRIZA.
Participants in the conference will also be (a) Haris Golemis, Economist, Legal Representative of Transform! Europe, Director of Nicos Poulantzas Institute, and, (b) Dr. Walter Baier, Economist, transform! Austria (Austria), Coordinator of Transform! Europe.
This one-day event will be completed by Alexis Tsipras’ talk on the topic ‘A Left Political Alternative for the Re-foundation of Europe’, considered by the organizers as the optimal way to bring the conference to its final fruition.
It should be noted that the event, and the talk by Alexis Tsipras in particular, are being eagerly anticipated, considering that the conference is taking place only three days after the organization, in the same city of Dublin, of the European People’s Party congress, with bothJean-Claude Juncker and Antonis Samaras expected to be attending.
Alexis Tsipras will naturally be using this opportunity to meet with local political and social communities and operators
