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?’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...
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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...
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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...