Invitation to a conference
The French presidential elections – challenges and issues
Wednesday 30 March 2022, 10.00 (EET)
The Chair Jean Monnet “The fundamentals of European integration: democracy, institutions and policies” invites you to an information conference on the upcoming French presidential elections that will take place on Wednesday 30 March 2022 at 10:00 (EET).
The lecture will take place in a hybrid form
In room 319 (Law and Politics building)
and
online through the zoom platform
https://authgr.zoom.us/j/98987728687?pwd=bm9ScXhuc1pBTUsrSk9DZExPaitUZz09
(Meeting ID: 989 8772 8687 passcode 749328)
- The first part of conference consists of a lecture by Paul Guyonnet, journalist on the “challenges and issues ahead of the first round of the French presidential elections”
Paul Guyonnet is a journalist with Huffington Post France. He studied political sciences at Sciences Po – Lille and University of Kent, UK (double master). He then joined the Superior School of Journalism in Lille, graduating in spring 2014. During his professional career he worked with RTL, the first private radio of France, the “Journal du Dimanche”. Since 2015 he joined Huffington Post France where he worked first at the video service and later, as a correspondent in Los Angeles. Since the beginning of 2019, he is working at the general newsreel department covering “breaking news”.
His intervention will be followed by a Q&A session (in English) with the guest speaker.
- Subsequently there will be brief interventions (in Greek) by students of the Department on specific aspects of the election campaign.
- Alexandros Gottinakos: The ideological positions of the candidates in the presidential elections – a quantified analysis
- Despina Helvatzoglou: The pre-election strategy of the parties of the extreme right ahead of the French presidential elections
- Vaios Fylaktos: The impact of the Russian invasion of Ukraine on the French pre-election political scene
- Thodoris Karapantzios: Europe in the French elections campaign
Commentary and observations by professors Th. Chatzipantelis, E. Teperoglou and G. Papageorgiou
