European Politics after the Greek and French Elections

09/05/2012 by Henning Meyer

The important elections in Greece and France are now behind us and the results will hopefully have a decisive impact on European crisis politics. The days after such important elections are also ‘talking heads’ time. I was on Al Jazeera International and on Sky News to discuss the implications of the election results for European politics. Watch it if you can bear it.

Filed Under: Blogs Tagged With: austerity, Elections, EU, Europe, France, Greece, Hollande, Politics

About Henning Meyer

Henning Meyer is Editor of Social Europe Journal and a Senior Visiting Fellow at the Government Department of the London School of Economics and Political Science. He has also written opinion editorials for newspapers such as The Guardian, Handelsblatt and DIE ZEIT and comments regularly on TV news channels.

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