ΑΝΑΚΟΙΝΩΣΕΙΣ

RESEARCH SEMINAR 27/11/2024: ''"POST-WAR GRECO-GERMAN RELATIONS: ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, BUSINESS INTERESTS AND EUROPEAN INTEGRATION" ( BY CHRISTOS TSAKAS)

Research Seminar 27/11/2024: ''"Post-war Greco-German Relations: Economic Development, Business Interests and European Integration" ( by Christos Tsakas)

Research Seminar Series in Economic Sciences, 2024 - 2025

Speaker: Christos Tsakas |PhD, Jean Monnet Fellow |Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies |EUI Florence Academia Twitter

Title: "Post-war Greco-German Relations: Economic Development, Business Interests and European Integration"

Date & Time: Wednesday, November 27th, 2024, 14:00 - 15:30  

Place: Grypario Megaro (Sofokleous 1) | 4th floor | Lecture Hall “Kosmas Psychopedis” (416)

Live streaming of the event:https://delos.uoa.gr/opendelos/search-live

Url: https://www.econ.uoa.gr/ereynitika_seminaria_research_seminars/

Abstract: 

This paper explores the post-war Greco-German relationship and asks how this relationship fits into, and changes, the narrative of European integration.

The presentation highlights West Germany’s role in shaping Greece’s development model and argues that Greece's accession to the Community in 1981

had a long back story in the modernization strategies adopted by the two countries as early as the 1950s. The success, not the failure, of those strategies

lies at the root of Greece's lingering balance of payments problems: the ever-widening trade deficit with Germany, the country’s main trading partner,

was the price of Greek economic growth in the decades following the war.

By addressing this three-decade story of uneasy continuity, the paper offers new insights into core-periphery relations in Europe, questions the conventional

wisdom about Greece’s path to Europe, and challenges the way the so-called North-South divide has been adduced to explain the recent euro crisis.

 

Organizers: Dimitris Kenourgios, Professor

                      George Dotsis, Assoc. Professor

                      Frago Kourandi, Assist. Professor

Thank you.