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Kostas Botopoulos

Kostas Botopoulos is a constitutional lawyer, a former MEP and former chair of the Greek Capital Markets Commission. His latest book is Anti-populism: A Global Phenomenon with a European Epicentre.

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‘Prorogation’: Britain’s populist coup

Kostas Botopoulos 2nd September 2019

Proroguing Westminster is a transparent manoeuvre by Boris Johnson to set up a ‘people versus Parliament’ election, even with the UK on course to crash out of the EU.

The Juncker commission: lessons from an almost-lost mandate

Kostas Botopoulos 7th May 2019

The outgoing European Commission had some successes. But it was more defined by its shortcomings.

The “New Soft” Brexit

Kostas Botopoulos 17th July 2018

After the recent developments, and especially the UK Government’s “Chequers Statement”, a new reality has dawned regarding the outcome of Brexit: there will either be a ‘cliff-edge’ scenario – UK crashing out in 2019 without any deal – or a “3rd country-regime-with-some-but-not-even-remotely-the-same-as-before-advantages”, which we might call ‘soft(er) Brexit’. Thus understood, ‘soft(er)’ Brexit has taken the […]

How To Defeat The Populist Progression

Kostas Botopoulos 14th March 2018

Since 2015 international politics have sped up and changed direction. The return to power of the Law and Justice Party (PiS), led by Jaroslav Kaczynski in October 2015, the Brexit vote in June 2016 and the Trump victory in November 2016 should be seen in conjunction and taken as portents of a new political era. […]

Pasok: New Leadership, New Discourse To Revive Greek Social Democracy

Kostas Botopoulos 29th November 2017

What would you say is the current situation of Pasok, the Greek social democratic party? What is the historic position of social democracy in the Greek political system? Given the recent Greek crisis, where does the party now stand? I’ve been working for some 30 years now around the socialist parties. Not only in Greece […]

No More Crises As Opportunities: An Answer To Yanis Varoufakis

Kostas Botopoulos 19th October 2017

The concept of crises engendering opportunities for the “rebirth” of Europe should have died with the Greek experience in the most dramatic phase of which Yanis Varoufakis took an active part. Having worked with former Prime Minister George Papandreou before embarking on his “radical Left” experiment, which nearly cost Greece its place in the Eurozone, Varoufakis should have learned that courting the abyss and generating crises is never a […]

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