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Costas Douzinas is president of the Nikos Poulantzas Institute, Professor of Law and Head of the Humanities faculty at Birkbeck University. He is also member of the Greek parliament and Chair of the Standing Committee on National Defence and Foreign Relations, which submitted the Prespes Agreement to the Hellenic Parliament.
Douzinas’ latest book is called “Syriza in Power. Reflections of an Accidental Politician”.
In the interview with transform! europe’s director Barbara Steiner he talks about his experience as „accidental politician”, how an internationally recognized academic and a leftwinger experiences of every day life in a national parliament, he talks about what were the biggest challenges, what the most important achievements. One of these achievements was the Prespes agreement, which - as Douzinas explains - solved in a historic multiculturalist way an International conflict. Douzinas talks openly on the blackmailing of the Syriza government by the Troika in 2015, the victory of the referendum and the following defeat. He answers the question why Syriza remained a single case for a radical left party to enter government and, why is the Left in most European countries not rising but the right is? An outlook to the European Parliament elections that take place end of May, the same day on which Greece will hold regional and municipal elections closes the interview.
Costas Douzinas is president of the Nikos Poulantzas Institute, Professor of Law and Head of the Humanities faculty at Birkbeck University. He is also member of the Greek parliament and Chair of the Standing Committee on National Defence and Foreign Relations, which submitted the Prespes Agreement to the Hellenic Parliament.
Douzinas’ latest book is called “Syriza in Power. Reflections of an Accidental Politician”.
In the interview with transform! europe’s director Barbara Steiner he talks about his experience as „accidental politician”, how an internationally recognized academic and a leftwinger experiences of every day life in a national parliament, he talks about what were the biggest challenges, what the most important achievements. One of these achievements was the Prespes agreement, which - as Douzinas explains - solved in a historic multiculturalist way an International conflict. Douzinas talks openly on the blackmailing of the Syriza government by the Troika in 2015, the victory of the referendum and the following defeat. He answers the question why Syriza remained a single case for a radical left party to enter government and, why is the Left in most European countries not rising but the right is? An outlook to the European Parliament elections that take place end of May, the same day on which Greece will hold regional and municipal elections closes the interview.
