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?Why Jeremy Corbyn is not Alexis TsiprasThose who think that Jeremy Corbyn could turn the Labour party into a British Syriza should think again.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Fomenting unnecessary alarmism (or why the scenarios of a “civil war” in Greece are unfounded)Claims that the situation in Greece may escalate into a 'civil war' misunderstand the nature of modern Greek society.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?From pro-American to pro-Russian? Nikola Gruevski as a political chameleonA former staunch ally of the US-led War on Terror, Macedonia PM Nikola Gruevski has gradually turned his country...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?A ’different’ commemoration of Russia’s Victory Day: reporting from Thessaloniki, Greece (9 May 2015)Does the ostentatious celebration of Russia's victory in the Great Patriotic War, which took place in Thessaloniki...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Press-clipping the Tsipras-Putin meeting: the early impressionsHow did the Greek press react to the recent Tsipras-Putin meeting in Moscow?
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Of Trojan horses and realpolitik: The Tsipras-Putin meeting and its broader implicationsToday Alexis Tsipras will sit down in Moscow for talks with Vladimir Putin. This meeting has been dogged by...