EU-Views: Loukas Tsoukalis
Name: Loukas Tsoukalis
Nationality: Greek
Occupation(s): Pierre Keller Visiting Professor at Harvard Kennedy School; Professor of European Integration at the University of Athens; President of ELIAMEP (Greece’s leading think tank on European and international affairs); Former Special Adviser to the President of the European Commission and member of the High Level Group of the European Commission on the Modernisation of Higher Education (2012-2013)
Connection to Europe: European citizen; Taught at Oxford, London School of Economics, Sciences Po (Paris), European University Institute in Florence; Expertise in European integration and international political econonomy; European policy specialist
Date of interview: May 3, 2016
This episode is a conversation with Loukas Tsoukalis, Professor of European integration at the University of Athens, about the simultaneous challenges facing the EU, specifically discussing the problems caused by the fiscal crisis. He explains the dysfunctionality of the monetary union, emphasizing the impacts of its ineffectual and illegitimate practices on ordinary citizens and the political repercussions we can see today. Tsoukalis also discusses the question of Europe’s future given its tendency toward soft power underneath the protection of the United States ‘umbrella’ and the need to address the causes of growing populist movements across Europe.