Vassilis Petsinis is a Marie Curie Experienced Researcher at the University of Tartu (Johan Skytte Institute of Political Studies). His specialisation is European politics and ethnopolitics with a regional focus on central and southeast Europe (including the Baltic States). He holds a PhD from the University of Birmingham. His personal profile on academia.edu can be accessed here.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?’It is also the economy, stupid!’ The rise of economic euroscepticism in Central and Eastern EuropeAlong comparable lines to Croatia, Latvia’s economy has not fully recovered from the recession of 2009-2011.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?As long as it lasts: Latvia’s new coalition governmentThe rapid emergence of KPV hints at the growing relevance of economic Euroscepticism for a new generation of ambitious, anti-establishment, parties in the crisis-ridden parts of the ‘new’ Europe.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Contrasting euroscepticisms in Croatia and SerbiaWhat are the implications for Serbia from Croatia’s experience throughout the course of its EU-membership?
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Estonia’s populist and radical right: how radical are they?Many political observers have noticed how the most recent anti-immigration protests relating to the debate on the UN compact have displayed comparatively higher levels of violent rhetoric and political heat.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Why Catalonia is not the BalkansAn analysis of where the Spain/Yugoslavia comparison succeeds, and where it fails.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Competing conservatisms in Serbia and CroatiaNationalist conservatives are dominating the political scenes in Serbia and Croatia, but how do they compare and differ in the way they rule?