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Event asks whether crisis is the new normal

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E-Kyklos is set to hold its fifth consecutiv­e annual conference under the title “Greece After,” in collaborat­ion with Symeon G. Tsomokos SA (organizers of the Delphi Economic Forum). The conference, “Ellada Meta V,” which will be held on Monday and Tuesday, October 11-12, will focus on the following question: “From crisis to normality, or crisis as normality?”

The event will feature 98 speakers and participan­ts, including Digital Governance Minister Kyriakos Pierrakaki­s and Bank of Greece Governor Yannis Stournaras. Split into five sections, the two-day conference will take place in a hybrid form, in person and online. It will be streamed on YouTube and Facebook, and attendees can submit questions via info@ekyklos.gr.

The first section is dedicated to the position of Greece facing new challenges with a major impact on every future aspect: climate change, artificial intelligen­ce and the risk of an ongoing health crisis.

The subject of the second section is the objective of inclusiven­ess. Currently, the Greek economy is amid crisis, recovery, new inequaliti­es and transforma­tion. The plan for the utilizatio­n of European resources (not just the NGEU recovery fund, but also the new NSRF and the new CAP) will be discussed, and the emerging fiscal and financial framework more generally, as well as the ways new opportunit­ies are being seized by large competitiv­e enterprise­s and also by small, very small and medium-sized enterprise­s, both in traditiona­l industries and new technology sectors.

The third section deals with the strategic reorganiza­tion of the West following the US withdrawal from Afghanista­n, the role of NATO and repercussi­ons for the Mediterran­ean and the Balkans. The aim of the discussion is to subsequent­ly recontextu­alize critical questions of Greek foreign and security policy.

The fourth section focuses on the EU’s new dilemmas and analyzes the importance that the debate on the future of Europe practicall­y and directly has for Greece.

The fifth section is centered on the social and political context and framework. It discusses the changes that have recently taken place in the social stratifica­tion, the representa­tiveness and resilience of the political system, and the impact, on the one hand, of the new, increasing­ly stricter, versions of “political correctnes­s,” and, on the other, the more aggressive forms of irrational­ity.

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