Serbian President Boris Tadic addressed geopolitical developments and the future of the Western Balkans at a lecture organized yesterday by the Kokkalis Foundation.

On the occasion of the publication of his latest Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims and Jews, 1430-1950, the Kokkalis Foundation hosted the great historian and Columbia university professor Mark Mazower for a visit and lecture held in Salonica on June 15.

"The European Union is not yet a traditional democratic society in the way that we use the term today, but a democracy under construction. It is still incomplete, but this is the very nature of democracy itself", stated the President of the European University Institute in Florence, Professor Yves Mény.

“In today’s times of globalization and alienation, the Homeric hero’s message of courage, responsibility, and personal freedom is especially pertinent and opportune,” stressed BOD member of the Kokkalis Foundation Petros Kokkalis in his welcome to the distinguished and world-renowned Professor Gregory Nagy.