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?: AnalysisAmbitious contenders from Croatia’s Left: Možemo wins ZagrebIt seems the long-term impact of economic malfunction can efface the centrality of ethno-cultural cleavages in...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?: AnalysisThe bio-politics of lockdown in GreeceHas there been a consolidated ‘right-wing shift’ within Greece’s ruling party amid the persisting COVID-19 crisis?
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?A century after the Trianon Treaty: perceptions of Hungary in Serbia and CroatiaFor a decade, Viktor Orbán has shifted the lens of the Hungarian government’s grievances from the neighbouring...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The rise and fall of JobbikTracing the Jekyll and Hyde relations of the two largest parties in the Hungarian parliament.
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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...