By Daunis Auers (University of Latvia) The last few years have seen parts of East-Central Europe turn to the populist right. Viktor Orban’s Fidesz party won the 2010 and 2014 parliamentary elections with landslide majorities. Poland’s Law and Justice party has held the presidency and controlled both houses of parliament since October 2015. This has [...]
By Dario Nikić Čakar (University of Zagreb) The result of the 2015 parliamentary election, held on 8 November, has shaped a new political landscape in Croatia. A fierce electoral competition did not produce a clear-cut winner between the governing left-wing coalition Croatia is Growing led by the Social Democratic Party (SDP) and the broad right-wing [...]
By Peter Učeň (Policy Analyst) The recent parliamentary elections in Slovakia took place after the full term of the single-party government by the nominally social democratic Direction - Social Democracy (Smer-SD) party. The legacy of this government as well as the pre-election polls suggested that Smer-SD will defend their dominance with the score somewhere in [...]
By Vladislav Șaran (Institute of Legal and Political Research of Academy of Sciences of Moldova) The end of political year of 2015 has proven to be a play with sad ending for the Republic of Moldova. Valeriu Strelet’s government fell after less than 100 days in office. The motion was backed by 65 deputies (out [...]
Participation on "Political Parties' Democratisation Potential", a Workshop of Party Experts in Southern and Eastern Europe, sponsored by the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (Vienna).
A brief analysis (with Simona Guerra) of the EP debate on the Polish constitutional crisis View LINK
By Dane Taleski (University of Graz) On January 15, EU Commissioner Johannes Hahn came to Macedonia to seal the deal on the agreement paving the way out of the crisis via early elections in April 2016. However, the main opposition party, SDSM, objected to the elections, expressing doubt that conditions are sufficient for them to [...]
Speaker at the Roundtable on “Parties and Mobilisation” (Madrid) Speakers: Prof. Gianfranco Pasquino, University of Bologna (Emeritus) Prof. Francisco José Llera, University of the Basque Country Dr. Fernando Casal Bertoa, Nottingham Research Fellow (University of Nottingham) Moderator: Dr. Javier Redondo Rodelas, University Carlos III View LINK WATCH ROUNDTABLE
A summary analysis (with Simona Guerra) of the last Polish parliamentary elections (25 October 2015) View LINK
Co-editor (with Ingrid van Biezen) of the Routledge Book Series on Political Parties and Party Systems View LINK
