Recent Travels

I travelled to Europe twice in February to discuss problems related to the Eurozone Crisis.  The first time was to participate in an expert panel on how to develop democracy in the European Union for the meeting of Social-Democratic leaders, “Renaissance for Europe: Peace, Prosperity, Progress,” on February 8-9, who gathered in Turin, Italy, to support the social-democratic leader, Pier-Luigi Bersani, in the upcoming elections. Attendees included sitting Prime Ministers of Belgium, Romania, and Croatia along with opposition leaders from a number of other countries. The second trip was to give a talk on “The Eurozone Crisis seen from the US” at the French National Assembly on February 21 for the conference on Trans-Atlantic Relations sponsored by the Foreign Affairs Committee.