What do you do when your national media is state controlled? For Belarusian 'non-State' media the answer has been to...

The new Polish government seems keen on following the authoritarian 'Budapest model' promulgated by illiberal...

Western commentators see the 'sudden' right-wing turn of Poland as a so-passé mixture of nationalism, populism and...

The new right-wing Polish government is trying to use the Paris attacks as an excuse to scapegoat refugees and stir...

This is (along with Islamism and neoliberalism) one of a certain number of global issues on which Foucault can be...

The hostile response of central and eastern European heads of states to the prospect of accepting Syrian refugees is...

Could two surprising new political parties - Noweczesna.pl and Razem - shake up the conservative political system in Poland?

Poland’s left-wing parties have formed an electoral alliance to contest October's parliamentary election. However,...

Deregulation is often packaged as a fight against red tape or a drive to improve efficiency by removing so-called...

Lithuania's Polish and Russian minorities are oddly friendly with each other, which is causing a headache for the...

Everything you need to know about Poland's recent presidential election, at a glance.

Should a serious migration crisis erupt as a result of conflict escalation in Ukraine, the odds are that the V4...

Does it make sense for the Left to participate in a race between two conservatives? Should we leave home and vote...

Last week the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg rejected a Polish appeal on CIA-prison cases involving...

The Macedonian government shows little interest in fostering interethnic communication. It relies on nationalistic...

In a ruling described by Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch as “landmark”, the European Court of Human...

The radical political ideas of Jacek Kuroń, the Polish opposition leader of the 1960s and 70s - without whom Lech...

Some European leaders, such as Polish PM Donald Tusk, are using the Ukraine crisis as a pretext to revive national...

What can we learn from comparing the 1989 revolutions in Poland and in China?

Wojciech Jaruzelski, the last communist leader of Poland, is due to be given a full state funeral today. However the...