November 2016
Note from the Editor
Welcome to the November issue of the EI Digest! We have some exciting events planned for this month, ranging from a photography exhibition organised by the Hellenic Observatory, to public lectures with speakers including Marco Buti from the European Commission and Craig Oliver, David Cameron's former Director of Communications.
We are also happy to announce that our applications for Master and PhD studies for the academic year 2017-18 are now open. You can find more information below and by visiting our website - do spread the word to people you know are interested in European studies.
With best wishes,
Antigoni Boulougari
Events, Marketing & Communications Manager
a.boulougari@lse.ac.uk
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EVENTS
 'Cypus in Time'
Hellenic Observatory and LSE Arts Exhibition
Monday 24 October - Friday 25 November 2016 | 10.00 - 20.00 | Atrium Gallery, Old Building
Photographic display of black and white images taken by Cypriot photographer, artist and journalist Antigoni Solomonidou Droussiotou. This show explores religious and political contrasts, the everyday life, the habits, traditions and moments in time, captured from years of exploring and observing both sides of the island of Cyprus.
Forum for European Philosophy Public Lecture
18.30 pm - 20.00 pm | Tuesday 8 November
Sheikh Zayed Theatre
Speakers Julian Baggini, Writer and Editor-in-Chief of The Philosophers’ Magazine
Jesper Kallestrup, Professor of Philosophy, University of Edinburgh
Chris Norris, Distinguished Research Professor of Philosophy, Cardiff University
Sarah Sawyer, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Sussex
Chair Peter Dennis, Fellow, Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method, LSE and Forum for European Philosophy Fellow
 A social or a neoliberal Europe? The Greek experience
Hellenic Observatory Public Lecture
Monday 14 November 2016 | Thai Theatre, New Academic Building | 18.30 - 20.00
Speaker: George Katrougalos, Minister of Labour and Social Security, Greece and Professor of Public Law
Chair: Professor Kevin Featherstone, Eleftherios Venizelos Professor of Contemporary Greek Studies and Professor of European Politics
Discussant: Sarah Paterson, Assistant Professor of Law
 Unleashing Demons: the inside story of Brexit
LSE 'After Brexit: the future of the UK in Europe' public lecture
Monday 14 November 2016 | 18.30 - 20.00 | Sheikh Zayed Theatre
Craig Oliver, David Cameron’s former Director of Politics and Communications
Chair: Professor Tony Travers
As David Cameron’s Director of Politics and Communications, Craig Oliver played a prominent role in the campaign to keep Britain in the EU. This talk promises to be a fascinating insight into the most important political events since World War Two.
 Europe’s incompatible trinities
European Institute Public Lecture
Monday 21 November 2016 | 18.30 - 20.00 | TW1.G.01
Speaker: Marco Buti
Comments: Paul De Grauwe, Mareike Kleine
Chair: Iain Begg
Is the recasting of economic governance of Europe beset by intractable economic, political and institutional conflicts? The focus of this event will be on whether there are ways round the various incompatible economic and political trinities, and, if so, what they imply for the next stages of reform of euro governance.
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On the occasion of its 20 Year Anniversary, the Hellenic Observatory has organised a photography exhibition “Cyprus in Time” in association with LSE Arts. On the 26th of October the opening of the exhibition took place in the Atrium Gallery. HE Euripides L. Evriviades, High Commissioner for the Republic of Cyprus and photographer Antigoni Solomonidou Droussiotou are pictured below with Head of the European Institute, Professor Kevin Featherstone and Director of the Hellenic Observatory Dr Spyros Economides. For more photos from the event visit our Facebook page.
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 IN THE MEDIA
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Iain Begg was interviewed on China Central TV about the Calais camp removal and appeared on Swiss National TV. He was quoted in the Financial Times and the Independent. He published an article on UKANDEU titled Red bus timebomb. He was also quoted in a range of outlets as a result of interviews given to Agence France Presse, including Le Monde, Lowvelder and La Provence.
Lorenzo Codogno was interviewed about Italy’s constitutional referendum by SkyTG24, CNBC Asia and Bloomberg. He was also interviewed by SkyTG24 on the European banking crisis and by CNBC on US elections, global growth and the Italian referendum and by RAI3 on Italy's new economic projections and budget plans.
Spyros Economides authored an article titled 'Η Παγκόσμια Στρατηγική Ασφαλείας' ('The EU Global Strategy on Security Policy') in the Greek newspaper Kathimerini.
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Paul de Grauwe was interviewed on Bloomberg Surveillance about the combination of economics and politics in the European Union.
Bob Hancke was quoted in Ignites Europe in an article titled People Feature: Pitfalls of the long-hours working culture
James Ker-Lindsay was interviewed by Radio Free Europe Balkans on developments in Bosnia. He also commented on Montenegro’s foreign relations and general elections for World Politics Review and Reuters and discussed tensions between Serbia and Kosovo for Tanjug. He also commented on Western Balkans relations for Danas and was interviewed about Brexit by RTV.
Richard Bronk’s LSE Brexit and EUROPP blog on safeguarding youth mobility post-Brexit, ‘Let young people move’ was featured in FT Brussels Briefing.
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2017/18 EI Study Applications are now open!
With multidisciplinary academic staff, exceptional postgraduate programmes and a strong platform for events, there has never been a better time to apply to study at the European Institute and join the European debate. Applications are now open, so please visit our website if you would like to find out more.
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PODCASTS
Did you miss any of our public lectures? You can catch up with all our events by listening online or downloading our podcasts here.
 Iceland's Road to Recovery- Key Lessons
European Institute Public Lecture
Wednesday 19 October 2016
Speaker: Lilja Alfreðsdóttir, Iceland's Minister for Foreign Affairs and External Trade
 A defining moment in European and transatlantic resilience: Croatian perspectives
LSEE Public Lecture
Tuesday 11 October 2016
Speaker: Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović, President of the Republic of Croatia
 The Belgrade-Pristina dialogue: The normalisation of relations and regional stability
LSEE Public Lecture
Tuesday 25 October 2016
Speaker: Marko Đurić, Director of the Office for Kosovo and Metohija of the Government of the Republic of Serbia
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 PUBLICATIONS & BLOGS
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Iain Begg contributed a piecte to the LSE Brexit blog entitled
Despite strong GDP data, it is difficult to ascertain what effect Brexit will really have on the economy
Thierry Chopin published an article in the French law review “Revue de l’Union européenne” (Dalloz) co-written with Jean-François Jamet
Costa-i-Font, Joan and Mas, Núria (2016) Globesity? The effects of globalization on obesity and caloric intake. Food Policy.64 . pp. 121-132. ISSN 0306-9192
Costa-i-Font, Joan and Jiménez-Martínez, Sergi and Vilaplana, Cristina (2016) Does long-term care subsidisation reduce unnecessary hospitalisations? CESifo working papers, 6078. CESifo Group, Munich, Germany.
Costa-i-Font, Joan (2016) Is medicines parallel trade ‘regulatory arbitrage’? International journal of Health Care Finance and Economics. ISSN 2199-9023
Costa-i-Font, Joan and Jiménez-Martínez, Sergi and Vilaplana-Prieto, Cristina (2016) Thinking of incentivizing care? The effect of demand subsidies on informal caregiving and intergenerational transfers Barcelona GSE Working Paper, 929. Barcelona Graduate School of Economics,
De Grauwe, Paul and Gerba, Eddie (2016) Monetary transmission under competing corporate finance regimes Ensayos Sobre Política Económica. ISSN 0120-4483
Bob Hancke has contributed a piece to the EUROPP blog entitled Fear and loathing in Namur: CETA will likely be rescued, but disaffection with globalisation can no longer be ignored
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Daphne Halikiopoulou, Kyriaki Nanou and Sofia Vasilopoulou
October 2016
Monastiriotis, Vassilis, Crescenzi R., Fratesi U. and Monastiriotis V. (2016), The Achievements of Cohesion Policy: long-period evidence on the factors conditioning success and failure from 15 selected regions, ch.6 in Dotti, N.F. (ed), Learning from Implementation and Evaluation of the EU Cohesion Policy: lessons from a research-policy dialogue, RSA Research Network on Cohesion Policy, Brussels.
Esra Ozyurek's book Being German, Becoming Muslim: Race, Religion and Conversion in the New Europe has been recently translated into Malay.
Martin Westlake published 'The UK's legacy in the European Parliament' in Record and Review
Teasdale, Anthony 'The Fouchet Plan: De Gaulle’s Intergovernmental Design for Europe' LEQS Paper No. 117, October 2016, LEQS – LSE ‘Europe in Question’
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HELLENIC OBSERVATORY Research Seminars
The Analytics of the Greek Crisis
Tuesday 8 November 2016 | 18:00-19:30 | 3.21 Old Building
Speaker: Dimitri Vayanos, Professor of Finance, Head of the Department of Finance, Director of the Paul Woolley Centre for the Study of Capital Market Dysfunctionality, LSE
This event is free and open to all. Please register on Eventbrite.
Outward migration from Greece during the crisis
Tuesday 22 November 2016 | 18:00-19:30 | Cañada Blanch Room COW 1.11 Cowdray House
Speakers: Lois Labrianidis, Secretary General for Strategic and Private Investments, Greek Ministry of Economy, Development and Tourism; Professor of Economic Georgraphy, University of Macedonia;
Manolis Pratsinakis, Marie Curie Post-doctoral Fellow, University of Macedonia; Research Fellow, Institute of Migration and Ethnic Studies, University of Amsterdam
HELLENIC OBSERVATORY One-day Conference
Greece: Modernisation and Europe 20 years on
Friday 25 November 2016 | 09.00-20.00 | Shaw Library, Old Building
Drawing on the conference organised at the European Institute of LSE in November 1994, this retrospective conference asks participants to reflect on the modernisation of Greece, particularly over the past two decades.
This event is free, however, registration is required through Eventbrite.
HELLENIC OBSERVATORY Visiting Fellowship Scheme
The Hellenic Observatory (HO) welcomes applications for Visiting Fellows, Visiting Senior Fellows & Visiting Professors by academics or policy practitioners who may want to spend a period of between 6-12 months at the LSE to conduct independent research on a topic relevant to the work of the Hellenic Observatory.
The second deadline for submitting applications is Friday 6 January 2017, 5pm (UK time). The Visiting appointment start date for this round of applications is from 1 March 2017. For more information visit our website.
Hellenic Observatory’s 20 year Anniversary Lecture
The principle of Solidarity in the framework of primary European Law: Guarantees provided by the Treaty for the European Union and the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union.
Speaker: President of the Hellenic Republic, H.E. Mr Prokopis Pavlopoulos
Date: Monday 28th November 2017
Not open to the public; by-invitation only
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 STAFF CALENDAR
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4 November: Waltraud Schelkle will give a paper on “Transborder crisis management of 'sudden stops': what difference does membership in the euro area make?” at the CARR workshop on "Transboundary crises and crisis management in the EU" at LSE
4-5 November: Lorenzo Codogno will be a panellist at the Centre for European Reform conference on “Brexit and the economics of populism”, Enstone, Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire,
5 November: Kevin Featherstone will be speaking to the German LSE Alumni Association in Frankfurt on ‘The UK and Europe after BREXIT’
5 November: Waltraud Schelkle convenes a workshop on her forthcoming book “The political economy of monetary solidarity: understanding the euro experiment” at the annual meeting of German students in the UK at the University of Oxford
5 November: Lorenzo Codogno will be a panellist on “Arresting the Next Recession; Monetary and Fiscal Policy Beyond the Unconventional, the UBS European Conference 2016, London
9 November: Jennifer Jackson-Preece will give the key note address at a conference in Berlin on the promotion of National Minorities by kin-states in Central & Eastern Europe organised as part of Germany's Presidency of the OSCE
10 November: Jennifer Jackson-Preece will chair the annual LSE 100 Public Lecture on the Power & Politics of Flags delivered by Tim Marshall.
11 November: Annette Bongardt and Francisco Torres will give a seminar on Brexit and the Optimal Size of Regional Integration Clubs at the University of Évora, Portugal
11 November: Lorenzo Codogno will give a presentation at the conference “Europe, regulation and regional banks” organised by Pri.Banks and ACRI, Modena (Italy)
14 November: Lorenzo Codogno will give a presentation at the Asset Management Summit organised by Crédit Agricole, London,
15 November: Mareike Kleine will give a talk at the University of Reading on “National elections and international negotiations.”
16 November: Lorenzo Codogno will give a presentation at ‘Mondo Institutionals’ Italian Institutional Investors Monitor conference on “Quo Vadis Euro? European and Italian challenges in the global scene”, Rome
17 November: Jennifer Jackson-Preece will chair a discussion on the recent proposal for a post-Brexit Continental Partnership between the UK and EU. Speakers will include Simon Hix, Emma Reynolds MP and Guntram Wolff.
17 November: Waltraud Schelkle gives a paper on “The Political Economy of Financial Solidarity: Cross-border Payments Systems as Social Insurance” at the international conference on “Political Economy of Systemic Risk” at LSE
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18 November: Mareike Kleine will give a talk at the University Nuremberg on “Informal politics in global governance”19 November: Waltraud Schelkle gives a talk about the economic consequences of Brexit for a group of students from the University of Technology in Zurich (ETH) in London.
21 November: Nicholas Barr will be giving a half-day course on the economics of pensions for economists at the Financial Conduct Authority
21-22 November: Waltraud Schelkle discusses the Europe of variable geometry with André Sapir at the conference “The economic map of Europe: chaotic pluralism, variable geometry or functional networks?” at the University of Oxford
23 November: Simon Glendinning is giving a lecture entitled “Europe's Promise” at the University of Warwick at 4.00-6.30pm
23 November: Waltraud Schelkle gives a seminar on “The governance of the Eurozone” at the LSE/ETUI workshop on “The changing political economy of Europe”, organised by Bob Hancké, on 23 November.
23 November: Richard Bronk is discussing his book, The Romantic Economist - Imagination in Economics at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne as part of their Reading Group seminar series on 'Imagined Futures’
24 November: Iain Begg will give a talk on Brexit at CEPII, the French Government think tank
24 November: Iain Begg will speak at the Austrian Central Bank’s “EMU Forum 2016”
25 November: Vassilis Monastiriotis is presenting a paper titled “Spatial structure and distributional dynamics of regional incomes in Greece” (co-authored with Can Karahasan) at the Regional Studies Association Winter Conference 2016 (London)
30 November: LSE Legal and Political Theory Forum is hosting a book launch for Jonathan White's new book The Meaning of Partisanship (with Lea Ypi)
30 November: Jennifer Jackson-Preece will participate in a panel discussion on the US Election & its Aftermath at Cambridge University
1 December: Francisco Torres will present his book Governance of the European Monetary Union (edited with Erik Jones, Routledge) at the European Studies Centre, St Antony’s, Oxford University
1 December: Francisco Torres will also give a seminar on Brexit and the Future of European Integration at the European Studies Centre, St Antony’s, Oxford University
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