Konstantinos Poulis

Konstantinos Poulis is an expert of Greek politics and collaborates with written and video materials with a number of media outlets, including ThePressProject. He also works as a theater actor. He has previously published theatrical plays and a volume of collected essays on the current crisis.

The Greek trajectory and Syriza’s fate

New Democracy emerged victorious in the Greek elections on 7 July 2019, with a 39.85% share of the vote – that is 7.5% more than SYRIZA. This is a far cry from the political landscape of July 2015, when the (then) radical left SYRIZA party…

The Greek left on the rough path of Realpolitik

Syriza, the party of Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, has been remarkably flexible when it comes to putting ideas into practice since taking power after the September 2015 election. It is therefore unsurprising that the same goes for…

Greece’s political paralysis and the danger of superficial consensus

For the first time since the beginning of the crisis in Greece, almost nobody is paying attention. As there are far more dramatic international political issues to worry about, this does not come as a surprise. Nothing is really at stake in…

Rebranding austerity as a necessary evil

Ironically, the situation in Greece has not changed much after the electoral victories of SYRIZA in 2015. There is a government that enforces austerity on a devastated population, arguing that these unwelcome measures are imposed by an…

The Greek nexus in the refugee crisis

There are things we knew going into the refugee crisis in Greece and the things that took us by surprise. Starting with the things we knew and expected: irrespective of the motives and sensitivities of the SYRIZA administration, the issue…

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