Does the Greek Diaspora Really Have Influence? | Endy Zemenides

Does the Greek diaspora really have influence — or simply access?

Endy Zemenides, Executive Director of the Hellenic American Leadership Council (HALC), joins Global Greek Influence for a wide-ranging conversation about power, advocacy and the changing geopolitical environment facing Greece, Cyprus and the global Hellenic community.

Zemenides challenges the diaspora to think beyond visibility and ask a harder question: are Greeks actually at the tables where decisions are made?

We discuss why traditional Greek advocacy has too often amounted to “talking to ourselves”; why the next generation of the diaspora must exercise influence outside the Greek community; and how Greece and Cyprus can build real strategic leverage in an increasingly uncertain international order.

The conversation also turns to Turkey and Erdoğan, NATO, the future of the rules-based order, European defence, and the Cyprus question — including a provocative challenge: 50 years after 1974, what should Cyprus aspire to become by 2074?

“If you’re not at the table, you’re not going to have influence.”

A conversation about the difference between having connections and having power — and what Greeks around the world can do with both.

Global Greek Influence explores how Greeks and the diaspora shape business, politics, culture and global affairs.

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