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Published in: HomeAs Poles shift right, democracy runs scarce
While 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 Europe
Official 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 neighbourhood
Talk 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 Belarus
What 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 Hungary
The 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 source
The 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 solidarity
This 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 migration
The 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 politics
Could 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 laws
Deregulation 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 does
Lithuania'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.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Europe’s migration crisis: central Europe’s dangerous game
Should a serious migration crisis erupt as a result of conflict escalation in Ukraine, the odds are that the V4...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Polish presidential election: the Left decides which Right wins
Does it make sense for the Left to participate in a race between two conservatives? Should we leave home and vote...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Poland: trust no one but the law
Last week the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg rejected a Polish appeal on CIA-prison cases involving...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Interethnic communication in ‘Borderlands’
The Macedonian government shows little interest in fostering interethnic communication. It relies on nationalistic...
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Published in: openSecuritySecret prisons, disappearances and torture
In a ruling described by Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch as “landmark”, the European Court of Human...