Economic Blues: the left in government times

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Channel: LSE · 2015 · Education

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Speaker(s): Euclid Tsakalotos 
Chair: Professor Kevin Featherstone

Recorded on 10 November 2015 at Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House

What are the prospects of the Left in government after the summer agreement? Can that agreement be incorporated into a political strategy that furthers social justice and a different economic model? Can Greece act as catalyst for wider progressive changes in the Eurozone and the EU? 

Euclid Tsakalotos (@tsakalotos) is the Greek Finance Minister. 

Kevin Featherstone is Hellenic Observatory Director, Eleftherios Venizelos Professor of Contemporary Greek Studies & Professor of European Politics and LSEE-Research on South Eastern Europe Co-Chair.

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