July 2019
Lars P. Feld
Lars P. Feld is a member of the German Council of Economic Experts since 2011 and as an adviser of the German Government he has followed closely the developments in the Greek crisis. Feld is also director of the Walter Eucken Institut and Professor for Economic Policy at the University of Freiburg.
Alain Badiou
Alain Badiou is a French philosopher, formerly chair of Philosophy at the École normale supérieure (ENS) and founder of the faculty of Philosophy of the Université de Paris VIII. Badiou in 2017 published the book Greece and the Reinvention of Politics, analyzing, what he calls, the failure of the Syriza experience in Greece.
Seraphim Seferiades
Seraphim Seferiades is an Associate Professor of Politics at the Panteion University of Social and Political Science, Athens and Life Member in Politics and History at the University of Cambridge (CLH). His work spans European and Greek labor and social history, contentious politics and social science methodology.
Yorgos Pleios
Yorgos Pleios is a professor and head of the Communication and Mass Media Department of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, specializing in Political Analysis of Communication. He is also director of the Laboratory for Social Research in Mass Media and member of the Research Committee of the university.
Tina Stavrinaki
Tina Stavrinaki is a lawyer specialized in International and European Human Rights Law. She has worked for five years as a legal officer with the National Commission for Human Rights and she is currently assistant coordinator of the Racist Violence Recording Network which she helped establish in 2011.
Vangelis
Vangelis, a middle-aged father of a 7-year-old girl, used to work in the construction sector, which has totally collapsed in Greece since the crisis. Unemployed for too long, he could no longer afford his mortgage and lost his house. In 2016, being homeless and financially unstable for many years, Vangelis lost custody of his daughter and his future still remains uncertain.
Lia
Lia, a housewife and mother of two, used to live in Thessaloniki, in northern Greece. After several years of unemployment for both Lia and her husband, their financial distress became critical and decided to migrate to Germany. Today, divided, between the longing for her country and her desire to offer her children a better future, Lia struggles to get accustomed to a new life away from home.
