His first lecture, as a Policy Fellow at the Minta de Gunzburg European Studies Center of Harvard (CES) and the Hellenic Studies Center (CHS), gave Alexis Tsipras on Tuesday night in a crowded amphitheater.

The former prime minister submitted four proposals for a new EU budgetary architecture aimed at strategic autonomy, and was placed, both in his initial speech and in the questions subsequently asked by members of the academic community, throughout the spectrum of developments in Europe,

More specifically, in the discussion of Professor Peter Hall, Alexis Tsipras explained that it was necessary to strengthen the EU’s strategic autonomy while maintaining the transactive dialogue, regardless of NATO’s future.

He also stressed that mutual respect is the only basis for Euro -American relations. “I firmly believe that Europe can and should use common foreign security and security policy, as well as enlargement and neighborhood policies, to be not only a force of deterrence, but also a power of peace and stability,” he said.

Tsipras lecture at Harvard

Going one step further, he submitted four axes of political and economic action in order for the EU to stand against the new challenges created by tectonic changes at the geopolitical level:

– Increase in debt threshold of European economies by 60% today at 100% on the occasion of Germany’s 900 billion program (which will increase its debt)

– Utilization of the fiscal space that will be created by this measure for the benefit of all Europe and not just domestic businesses of the big economies

– Creation of a European Ministry of Financen which will issue common European debt for investing in social cohesion, energy, defense, infrastructure, green transition

– Deepening of the internal market in the line of the Letta and DraGhi reports.