Christina Vasilaki is a Brussels-based freelance journalist. She is the EU correspondent for the Greek news portal, The Press Project. She has contributed to national and international media, such as the European affairs weekly, New Europe and the Brussels’ daily, Europolitics, covering a wide range of matters, from the eurozone crisis to immigration, to social affairs and employment policies. Since January 2014 she also works for the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP), as a Research Associate, responsible for the column “Brussels Update”, of the foundation’s Crisis Observatory. Before settling in Brussels, she had been working for the Greek, national daily, Eleftheros Typos from 2007 to 2010, mainly reporting on social movements and environmental issues.
She studied at the Department of Communication, Media and Culture at Panteion University and holds two master degrees in Political Science (Univerisité Paris IX) and in European Journalism (Institut Des Hautes Etudes Des Communications Sociales, Brussels). She was born and raised in Athens.