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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Illiberal tangos in central and eastern EuropeFar right organisations may be considered drivers of change in Central and Eastern Europe; their impact being felt...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?To confront polarisation one must look into the abyssWhat Brexit has shown us is that people are still easy to manipulate and that tribal divisions are still pretty much...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Reflections of a post-communist peasantThe situation in central and eastern Europe should serve as a warning against Brexit.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Can Poland’s opposition mount an effective challenge?The divided opposition will struggle to mount such a challenge unless it can also address Poles’ broader concerns,...
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Published in: 50.50Poland: a total ban on abortion?With unprecedented political momentum for a total ban on abortion in Poland, thousands are marching in protest and...
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Published in: HomeAs Poles shift right, democracy runs scarceWhile the Law and Justice party insists that local disputes are best settled at home, Polish opposition and fearful...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Rethinking “eastern European racism”Eastern Europeans are accused of a “compassion deficit” towards refugees. Is this really the case, and how can the...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Youngsters and refugees, or how exile changes eastern EuropeOfficial anticommunism never contented itself with making an equation between fascism and communism. It gravitated...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Silence – the EU’s strategy for human rights abuses in its neighbourhoodTalk in Brussels among non-governmental organisations and parliamentarians is that the EU lacks a strategy to...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Euroradio: from Warsaw for BelarusWhat do you do when your national media is state controlled? For Belarusian 'non-State' media the answer has been to...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The Polish boomerang: how Warsaw’s adoption of the 'Budapest Model' could threaten the original in HungaryThe new Polish government seems keen on following the authoritarian 'Budapest model' promulgated by illiberal...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Poland's right turn: inexplicable madness or rational response?Western commentators see the 'sudden' right-wing turn of Poland as a so-passé mixture of nationalism, populism and...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?A message to my country: refugees are victims of terrorism, not its sourceThe new right-wing Polish government is trying to use the Paris attacks as an excuse to scapegoat refugees and stir...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The drowned and the saved: Foucault's texts on migration and solidarityThis is (along with Islamism and neoliberalism) one of a certain number of global issues on which Foucault can be...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Fighting the wrong battle: Central Europe’s crisis is one of liberal democracy, not migrationThe hostile response of central and eastern European heads of states to the prospect of accepting Syrian refugees is...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The materialist turn in Polish politicsCould two surprising new political parties - Noweczesna.pl and Razem - shake up the conservative political system in Poland?
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Does the Polish left have a future?Poland’s left-wing parties have formed an electoral alliance to contest October's parliamentary election. However,...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?European Commission’s deregulation drive threatens EU nature lawsDeregulation is often packaged as a fight against red tape or a drive to improve efficiency by removing so-called...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Lithuania needs to listen to its Poles before the Kremlin doesLithuania's Polish and Russian minorities are oddly friendly with each other, which is causing a headache for the...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The Polish presidential election: what happens now?Everything you need to know about Poland's recent presidential election, at a glance.
