Susannah Verney was re-elected as Convenor of the ECPR Standing Group on Southern European Politics. The Group has 324 members and is currently the 5th largest Standing Group in the European Consortium  of Political Research   http://standinggroups.ecpr.eu/sep/

Associate Professor Dimitris A. Sotiropoulos wrote an article on Greeks and Social Europe at EUforum, an initiative of the Institute of International Relations Clingendael. http://euforum.nl/en/greeks-and-social-europe

Associate Professor Dimitri A. Sotiropoulos gave a lecture on "Democracy in the world today: a comparative approch" at Southeast European University at Tetovo.

Dimitri A. Sotiropoulos is doing empirical field research on the development of democracy in the Western Balkans in the post-crisis period. He regularly visits Belgrade and Skopje as part of this research and has already published, in electronic format, a preliminary paper on the derailment of democracy in the region: http://www.eliamep.gr/wp…