Eleni Xiarchogiannopoulou is a GR:EEN post-doctoral research fellow at the Institute for European Studies, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium. She is currently working on social conditionality in EU’s external trade policy and the EU/ILO relations in the area of flexicurity. Her broader research interests include discursive institutionalism, diffusion, external/internal Europeanization, EU governance, and Greek pension reform. She edited the book ‘The Eurozone Crisis and the Transformation of the EU Governance: Internal and External Implications’, forthcoming in May 2013, Alshgate.