The battle for France: The far-right surge and a high-stakes elections – Panayis Panagiotopoulos

In our latest podcast, with early parliamentary elections called in France, Panayis Panagiotopoulos, Associate Professor of Sociology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and ELIAMEP Senior Research Fellow, talks to Odin Linardatou about the underlying causes of the rise of the far right in France, the common front formed by the centre-left, Emmanuel Macron’s mistakes, populism and its appeal to citizens in France and beyond, but also about the concept of secularism in France and Islamophobia.

You can listen to the new podcast on YouTube & Spotify.