The Impact of European Employment Strategy in Greece and Portugal
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Speaker
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Sotirios Zartaloudis, Lecturer in Politics, Department of Politics, History and IR, Loughborough University
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Chair
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Professor Kevin Featherstone
Hellenic Observatory Director; Eleftherios Venizelos Professor of Contemporary Greek Studies & Professor of European Politics;
LSEE-Research on South Eastern Europe Co-Chair
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Date
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Monday, 20 October 2014
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Venue
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Canada Blanch Room, COW 1.11
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Time
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18:00-19:30
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Event Poster
Book Abstract
By focusing on three key areas of employment policy – public employment services, gender equality policies and flexicurity – in Greece and Portugal, this study provides a model to explore how European Employment Strategy (EES) can influence member states' employment policy. It argues that the main mechanisms of EES-induced change were empowerment of domestic policy entrepreneurs and European Social Fund financial conditionality. Soft power can therefore be wielded in the world of neglect without policy learning, which is considered the main 'soft' Europeanization mechanism.
Dr Sotirios Zartaloudis is Lecturer in Politics at the Department of Politics, History and International Relations at Loughborough University, UK, where he has been since September 2013. Previously, he was Lecturer in International Politics at the Department of Politics, University of Manchester, UK. He holds a PhD in European Studies which he obtained from the London School of Economics.
Photos
Professor Kevin Featherstone introduces Dr Sotirios Zartaloudis to the audience
The audience at the Canada Blanch Room
Dr Sotirios Zartaloudis discussing his new book
A Q&A session followed the talk