Dimitrios ARGYROULIS

Bio

Dr. Dimitrios Argyroulis is a post-doctoral research fellow at the Institute for European Studies at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) participating in the Horizon RED-SPINEL research project (‘Respond to Emerging Dissensus: Supranational Instruments and Norms of European Democracy’). His research contributes to the ‘EU Economic Governance Instruments and the Rule of Law’ work package focusing on the interaction between national democratic procedures and the European Semester, as well as the politicisation of the EU economic governance. Previously, Dimitrios worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Luxembourg exploring the legitimacy challenges to Eurozone’s monetary governance after a decade of multiple crises and their impact on the independence of the European Central Bank.

Dimitrios undertook his doctoral research at the University of Sheffield. His doctoral thesis advanced an explanation of the 2010-2013 EU economic governance reform based on the evolution of the Eurozone’s ‘sound money’ economic policy beliefs. He is a member of the University Association for Contemporary European Studies (UACES).

CV

2021-2023: Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Luxembourg

2015-2020: PhD, University of Sheffield

2007-2008: Master of Arts in Comparative Politics (with distinction), University of York (UK)

2002-2006: Bachelor’s in International & European Studies, University of Piraeus
 

Selected Publications

Argyroulis, D. (2023), “The European Semester: An Ordoliberal Construct?”, Journal of Common Market Studies 61 (1), pp.143-160 doi.org/10.1111/jcms.13363   

Argyroulis, D. and Vagdoutis, N. (2023), “Tackling Economic Inequality: Reorienting ECB’s role?”, Paper presented at the “ECB at the Crossroads” conference, University of Victoria, Victoria (British Columbia), 31 October – 3 November.

Argyroulis, D. (2022), “ECB’s Independence: No Longer a Golden Bullet?”, Paper presented at the 17th Biennial Conference of the European Union Studies Association (EUSA), Miami, Florida, 19-21 May.

Research Interests

• The Political Economy of the European Union

• European Economic Governance (the European Semester, the Stability and Growth Pact, the Fiscal Compact)

• European Monetary Governance

• The Politics of Economic Ideas

• The Legitimacy of the European Union and the Eurozone

• Theoretical Approaches to European Integration (especially Sociological Institutionalism)