TORONTO, April 7, 2003 -- Greece is at the helm of the European Union this year at a time of increasing dissent among traditional allies about war in Iraq and concerns about declining multilateralism. To discuss these issues, Greek Ambassador to Canada Leonidas Chrysanthopoulos, and Ambassador and Head of the Delegation of the European Commission to Canada Eric Hayes, join international scholars at York University April 11-12 in a symposium, Multilateralism and Unilateralism: The Role of the European Union in Global Politics.
The ambassadors will host a news conference at 5 p.m. on Friday, April 1l, at York’s Osgoode Hall Law School conference centre downtown (1 Dundas St. West, Suite 2602), just prior to the symposium.
Keynote speakers on Friday are Andreas Andrianopoulos, Greece’s former minister of industry and trade, and Dr. Joan Martinez-Alier of the Universitat Autonoma in Barcelona. On Saturday, sessions on international law, global governance, the global economy, and environmental policy, will convene with scholars from France, Germany and the United States, at York University’s Keele Campus, Founders College Assembly Hall, Room 152.
The symposium is sponsored by the Canadian Centre for German and European Studies at York University, the Consulate General of Greece, and the Hellenic Heritage Foundation Chair at York. The full program is available at http://international.yorku.ca/fyi/events/euconf.htm
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For further information, please contact:
| Prof. Thomas Gallant | Prof. Kurt Huebner | Susan Bigelow |
| Hellenic Heritage Foundation Chair | CCGES | Media Relations |
| Dept. of History, York University | York University | York University |
| 416-736-2100, ext. 30415 | 416-736-2100, ext. 40090 | 416-736-2100, ext. 22091 |
| 416-629-6687 (cell) | khuebner@yorku.ca | sbigelow@yorku.ca |
| tgallant@yorku.ca |
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