Vassilis Petsinis is a Marie Curie Experienced Researcher at the University of Tartu (Johan Skytte Institute of Political Studies). With a PhD from the University of Birmingham, his specialisation is European politics and ethnopolitics with a regional focus on central and southeast Europe (including the Baltic States). Commentary authored between May 1, 2017 and April 30, 2019 was achieved with research funding from the European Union (Horizon 2020, Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions, Individual Fellowships-IF, project name: MERWBKBS-749400).
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Elections in North Macedonia: waiting for a kingmakerHow do we explain the performances of the political parties? What should one expect?
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Elections in Croatia: Conservatives retain the parliamentary majorityBy contrast to Serbia and the overwhelming predominance of SNS, though, the composition of Croatia’s Sabor is...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Serbia: continuity elections amid COVID-19The Serbian Progressive Party/SNS won a landslide victory garnering 61.60% of the vote.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Harnessing ‘the right within’ in Croatia and GreeceHow ‘right-wing factions’ enable governing parties to draw support from the more socially conservative layers of...
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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...