Workshops & Papers
19th Conference on Alternative Economic Policy in Europe, 20-22 September 2013 at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London, organised by the EuroMemo Group
The second day of the EuroMemo Group conference (Saturday, 21 September) was dedicated to key themes of EU policy within within five different workshops (Workshop Programme as pdf-file).
Workshop 1 - Economic and financial policy
Coordinator: Trevor Evans9:00 - 10:30
- Erixson, Lennart / University of Stockholm
- Onaran, Ozlem / University of Greenwich
- Tomidajewicz, Janusz / Poznan University of Economics
- Acocella, Nicola / Sapienza University
10:45- 12:15
- Soy, Antoni / University of Barcelona
- Mazier, Jacques / University Paris 13
The future of the euro (in French)
- Plihon, Dominique / Paris Nord University
- Sterdyniak, Henri / OFCE
12:15 - 1:00
Policy proposals for afternoon plenary
Workshop 2 - Governance and democracy in the EU
Coordinator: John Grahl9:00 - 10:30
- Grahl, John / Middlesex University
- Kompsopoulos, Jannis / University of Tübingen
10:45 - 12:15
- Mathieu, Catherine / OFCE
- Reiners, Suleika / World Future Council
12:15 - 1:00
Policy proposals for afternoon plenary
Workshop 3 - Tax policy, employment and social inequalities
Coordinators: Jeremy Leaman & Mahmood Messkoub9.00 - 10.30 Tax policy
- Picciotto, Sol / Tax Justice Network & Lancaster University
- Ioannidis, Yiorgos / Labour Institute of the Greek Confederation of Workers
10.45 - 12.15 Employment and social inequality
- Česen, Tanja, formerly Ministry of Labour, Ljubljana, Slovenia
- Herrmann, Peter / EURISPES - Instituto di Studi Politici, Economici e Sociali Osservatorio Europeo sulla Qualità Sociale
- Tridico, Pasquale / University Roma Tre
12.15 - 1.00
Policy proposals for afternoon plenary
Workshop 4 - Industrial policy and social-ecological transformation
Coordinator: Frieder Otto Wolf9:00 - 10:30
- Pianta, Mario / University of Urbino
- Botta, Alberto / Mediterranean University of Reggio Calabria and University of Pavia
10:45 - 12:15
- Dellheim, Judith / Rosa Luxemburg Foundation and Frieder Otto Wolf / Free University Berlin
- Dymski, Gary / Leeds University Business School, University of Leeds
12:15 - 1:00
Policy proposals for afternoon plenary
Workshop 5 - The EU-US free trade agreement and EU external relations/ Eastern Europe
Coordinators: Werner Raza/ Wlodzimierz Dymarski9:00 - 11:00 The EU-US free trade agreement and EU external relations
- Bartl, Marija / University of Amsterdam and Fahey, Elaine / University of Amsterdam
Political-legal issues of the transatlantic partnership
Background reading: Pianta, Mario: Slowing trade: Global activism against trade libera lization
Policy proposals for plenary
11:00 - 1:00 Eastern Europe
- Bobkov, Vyacheslav / PJSC "All-Russian Centre of Living Standard" and Veredyuk, Olesya / St. Petersburg State University, Faculty of Economics
- Csoba, Judit / University of Debrecen, Hungary
- Dymarski, Wlodzimierz / Poznan University of Economics
Background papers
- Baldocchi, Umberto / University of Pavia
- Bejakovic, Predrag / Institute of Public Finance Zagreb
- Best, Michael
- Bömer, Hermann / formerly TU Dortmund
- Doukas, Yannis / University of Athens
- Esposito, Giovanni / Solvay Brussels School Economics and Management, ULB and Carobolante, Anna / Si può fare, ora!
- Filipenko, Anton / Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko University
- Giannone, Carlo / Università del Sannio - Benevento
- Godin, Antoine / University of Pavia
- Husar, Jaroslav / University of Economics Bratislava
- Koutentakis, Franciscos / University of Crete
- Laukkanen, Erkki / SAK, the central organisation of Finnish trade unions
- Lawson, Neal / Compass
- Mouhoud, E.M. / University of Paris Dauphine, LEDa-DIAL and GDRI DREEM CNRS
- Nielsen, Klaus / Birkbeck, University of London
- Pasimeni, Paolo / European Commission - DG Employment and Social Affairs
- Supinska, Jolanta / Warsaw University, Institute of Social Policy
- Tolios, Yiannis / Special State Financial Institution of Athens