Greek MPs pro European but weary of European institutions

Sotiropoulos, Dimitri A. and Tsirbas, Yannis (2015) Greek MPs pro European but weary of European institutions. LSE Greece@LSE (02 Feb 2015). Website.

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Syriza, a radical left party critical of the functioning of the EU institutions, won the Greek parliamentary elections of 25 January 2015 and formed a government coalition with the smaller right-wing eurosceptic party of Independent Greeks (ANEL). Does this mean that Greek political elites are hostile to the EU? The answer to this question is obviously affected by the context of the Memoranda of Understanding (MoUs) and loan agreements signed in 2010 and 2012 between Greece and its creditors, when Greece was on the brink of default. The ways in which Greek MPs perceive the EU were the topic of our attitudinal survey research, supported by the Hellenic Observatory, among Greek MPs. Our survey was conducted in April – October 2014 and involved face-to-face interviews with 74 MPs (25 per cent of the total) who were randomly sampled and came from all Greek parties except for the communist party (the KKE traditionally refuses interviews). The survey is topical, as before the elections the Syriza and ANEL parties had taken a strong anti-Memorandum stand which they will try to implement as government partners, while the centre-right New Democracy (ND) and the centre-left Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK), which were together in power in 2011-2014, had followed pro-Memorandum policies.

Item Type:	Online resource (Website)
Official URL:	http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/greeceatlse/
Additional Information:	© 2015 The Author(s)
Divisions:	Hellenic Observatory
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HB Economic Theory J Political Science > JC Political theory J Political Science > JN Political institutions (Europe)
Date Deposited:	31 May 2017 10:52
Last Modified:	15 Sep 2023 20:08
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/79347

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