The Rise of the Far Right in Greece: More than a Crisis Response?
Professor Sofia Vasilopoulou traces the Greek far right from the political margins to prominence, and asks whether reading it as a crisis reaction explains anything at all.
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The convenient reading of the Greek far right is that it arrived with the economic crisis and should have left with it. Sofia Vasilopoulou’s argument is that the parties’ persistence and their diversification since point somewhere else, into political and cultural currents that shape how people vote across decades rather than election cycles.
She works from electoral trends, published policy positions and campaign messaging across several parties rather than one, which is what lets the talk separate a spike from a shift. Vasilopoulou is vice-Chair of the COST Action project linking Euroscepticism to the study of political dissatisfaction, and the same question runs through both.
An Anglo-Hellenic League evening at the Hellenic Centre, seven until nine.