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Péter Krekó is a senior associate at Political Capital Institute, a think-tank in Budapest, and currently a Fulbright Visiting Professor at the Central Eurasian Studies Department at Indiana University. He holds a PhD. in psychology, and teaches courses in political science and social and political psychology. In Budapest, he served as an associate professor at the Eötvös Loránd University of Sciences. Krekó wrote his thesis on the social psychology of political transitions. He is an expert at the EU Radicalisation Awareness Network Centre of Excellence, and a presidency member of the Hungarian Political Science Association. His main research interests are populism and radicalism in Europe, and Russian soft power influence in Europe. Pétr wrote several dozens of studies in these topics.
Published on 22. December 2017 by Péter Krekó

From 2017 to 2018: the political rollercoaster can continue in Europe

Published on 22. December 2017 by Péter Krekó

From 2017 to 2018: the political rollercoaster can continue in Europe

As we are approaching the end of the year, it’s the right moment to look back on what happened in 2017. After 2016 with the results of the Brexit referendum, the US presidential election, but also of the constitutional referendum in Italy, had been a black year, this year began in a very gloomy mood. […]

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Published on 17. July 2017 by Péter Krekó

On the Drivers of Populism in Europe: Public vs. Elite?

Published on 17. July 2017 by Péter Krekó

On the Drivers of Populism in Europe: Public vs. Elite?

It has become a commonplace in the last few years that the alienation between public opinion and the elites is the major driver of populism in Europe. A recently published Chatham House research specifically aimed at exploring this divide. The research, conducted between December 2016 and February 2017 in ten countries (Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, […]

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Published on 06. June 2017 by Péter Krekó

Before the Comey Testimony: Four Points on Trump and Russia

Published on 06. June 2017 by Péter Krekó

Before the Comey Testimony: Four Points on Trump and Russia

On 8 June the former FBI director James B. Comey will testify publicly in the Senate about his conversations with President Trump. Fired FBI director James Comey plans to testify publicly in the Senate about his conversations with President Trump and whether there were improper contacts between one of Trump’s top advisers and Russian officials. […]

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Published on 09. May 2017 by Péter Krekó

Five Lessons for Europe from the French Presidential Election

Published on 09. May 2017 by Péter Krekó

Five Lessons for Europe from the French Presidential Election

After Emanuel Macron won the French presidency with a higher than expected margin (two-third of the votes), it might be important to draw some conclusions on what this means for European politics in general. In this post, I will not focus on the difficult policy choices that Macron will have to face, neither will I […]

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Published on 10. April 2017 by Péter Krekó

Orbán’s Illiberal Experiment: the Real Danger for Europe This Year

Published on 10. April 2017 by Péter Krekó

Orbán’s Illiberal Experiment: the Real Danger for Europe This Year

While most of the attention in Europe this year targets, for good reasons, the upcoming elections in Germany and France, so far the impression is that the big ’revolution’ of European far-right forces that many expected will not necessarily materialise. In fact, it seems that Vladimir Putin has bet on the wrong horses when openly […]

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Published on 13. March 2017 by Péter Krekó

Netherlands – No Game Changer in European Elections?

Published on 13. March 2017 by Péter Krekó

Netherlands – No Game Changer in European Elections?

The election in the Netherlands will be the first in a series of European elections in 2017. But while expectations are running high and concerns are growing for good reasons, the Dutch election is not expected to be a game-changer in European politics. While Geert Wilders’s populist, anti-immigration and anti-EU Freedom Party (PVV) had been […]

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Published on 16. February 2017 by Péter Krekó

Election Series in 2017 ─ If Europe Wants Peace, It Should Prepare for War

Published on 16. February 2017 by Péter Krekó

Election Series in 2017 ─ If Europe Wants Peace, It Should Prepare for War

2017 is a year of many elections in Europe: presidential election in April-May in France; parliamentary elections in March in the Netherlands, in June in France, in September in Germany and in October in the Czech Republic, and, more and more likely, interim elections in Italy as well, in the summer. While not all these […]

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