The International Faculty CITY College at the 6th Thessaloniki International Symposium in World Affairs

The International Faculty CITY College supported for another consecutive year the Thessaloniki International Symposium in World Affairs that took place with great success, on 22 October 2017 at Olympion theatre in Thessaloniki.

Themed ‘Between the promise of change and the despair of new conflicts’ the Symposium featured a number of distinguished speakers who shared their insights on the topic. The Mayor of Thessaloniki, Mr Yannis Boutaris, addressed the symposium. Welcome addresses were delivered by Mr. Dimitris Keridis, Director, Navarino Network, Mr Stavros Andreadis, Chairman, The Cultural Society of Entrepreneurs of Northern Greece and Mr. Norbert Beckmann-Dierkes, Head of Greece Office, Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung.

The International Faculty was represented at the event by Mr Petros Golitsis, Lecturer in the Business Administration and Economics Department who moderated the panel discussion on ‘Europe: Is the crisis over?’, while Professor Philip McCann, Chair in Urban and Regional Economics at the Management School of the University of Sheffield, UK who also participated in the panel gave an insightful presentation on ‘Regional shocks and the geography of discontent’.

The Symposium was organised by The Northern Greece Entrepreneurs Cultural Society and the Navarino Network and shed light on issues of radical Islam, innovation and growth, new security challenges, European crisis, Greece and Cyprus’ crises.