Current Projects
Responsible for the EU Politics and Governance Forum run by the European Policy Centre (EPC). This Forum monitors and analyses developments in the institutional
reform debate, and looks for ways to enrich that debate
with innovative thinking about the current and long-term
governance of an EU of 27-plus members.
Co-responsible on behalf of the European Policy Centre (EPC) for conceptualizing and managing the first Annual Think Tank Forum: State of the Union 2010 organized by leading Brussels based think tanks. The nine participating think tanks include the following: Bertelsmann Stiftung, Bruegel, Centre for European Studies (CEPS), Egmont Institute, European Policy Centre (EPC), Friends of Europe-Les amis de l’Europe, Institut français des relations internationales (Ifri), Madariaga-College of Europe Foundation, and Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP).
Since September 2009 Research Associate at the Hellenic Foundation for European & Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP) after being Stavros Costopoulos Research Fellow at ELIAMEP between 2007-2009.
EU Institutional Development Advisor of the Polish think-tank demosEUROPA - Centre for European Strategy in Warsaw. demosEUROPA aims to animate the debate about the main challenges facing the European Union. The Centre, which was established in 2006, wants to be a forum for exchange of opinions about the political, social and economic dimension of European integration and international affairs.
Member of the Venusberg Group, which in March 2009 commenced a project aiming to produce a European Briefing Book on Security and Defence for the next European Parliament (2009-2014). The goal of this project conducted by the Bertelsmann Foundation is to nurture the debate about how the newly elected EP can contribute even stronger to the shaping and implementation of the EU's foreign, security and defence policy.
Member of the L'Esprit de Sel Group, a group invited by Marek Siwiec, Vice-President of the European Parliament. The Group consists of Carl-Fredrik Bergström, Senior Fellow at the Swedish Institute for European Policy Studies (SIEPS) and lecturer at Stockholm University, Stockholm; Janis A. Emmanouilidis, Stavros Costopoulos Research Fellow, ELIAMEP, Athens; Lykke Fries, Pro-Rector of the University of Copenhagen; Christophe Hillion, Professor of European Law and co-director of the Europa Institute, Leiden University; Paul Hofheinz, President of The Lisbon Council, Brussels; Gaetane Ricard-Nihoul, Secretary General of Notre Europe, Paris; Pawel Swieboda, Director of demosEUROPA, Warsaw; and Tamas Szemler, Deputy Director, Institute for World Economy, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest. The Group published its first report – Giving Globalisation a European Face – in May 2008. A second report will concentrate on the future of the EU's neighbourhood policy and the continuation of the enlargement process. A special emphasis will be given to the prospects of the Eastern Partnership initiative, which was originally proposed by Poland and Sweden and then endorsed by all EU members in the European Council.