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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Put Vaclav Havel in any election today and he would lose. Is that OK?In our series on the Polish left, an interview on the future of politics in Europe and beyond with the sociologist,...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Conservative culture and the far right in PolandMost Poles agree that far right attacks are on the rise in their country, but the government and police are unable,...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Wrocław is afraid: an experiment in the European Capital of Culture 2016What happened when two teachers from one of the biggest and most populated cities in Poland, decided to put...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The false promise of a new left in PolandAs the old, post-communist left struggles with its own failures, the nascent new left already appears to be...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Academies of hatredA series of public events in Wrocław, Poland’s European Capital of Culture in 2016, have been disrupted by radicals....
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?What's Left in Poland?In the first article of our new debate on the Left in Poland, Anna Grodzka MP discusses her party, the Palikot...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Poland's 1980s, and "transitology" today
The 90th birthday of General Jaruzelski, the military figure who imposed martial law in Poland in 1981, was marked...
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Published in: HomePopulism: a European warning shot and what to do about it
This sudden emergence of populism was in fact a true sign of modernity. This is what you might describe as a warning...
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Published in: HomeThe helpless and the resourceful, or the beginnings of Polish populismsPoland has two populisms: “the populism of the dispirited”, mobilising those who struggled to adjust to life in the...
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Published in: HomeCIA prison will haunt PolandPoland's role in hosting a CIA "black site" is now certain. Whether the government will voluntarily admit it is...
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Published in: HomeBRICS, a new cooperation model?
One of the criticisms made of the emerging economies is that they are using cooperation to gain markets, political...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?There and back again? Media freedom and autonomy in Central and Eastern EuropeCollusion between the press and politicians is not confined to western Europe. Central and Eastern European...
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Published in: HomePoland and the US elections: respect for an ally
Poland is less engaged with this American election than on previous occasions. But its people and elites are still...
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Published in: HomeWhy Poland is the new France for GermanyHas Poland replaced France as Germany's most trusted European partner?
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Published in: HomeNot enjoying the football. But ever interested by it
Is football racist to its core? The author starts out having thought so, but his experience of a particular group of...
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Published in: oDRWar minus the shooting: Russia vs Poland at Euro 2012‘War minus the shooting’ was George Orwell’s definition of sport, unpleasantly brought once more to mind during the...
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Published in: HomeBarack Obama and Poland: injurious ignorance
The American president's award to the wartime Polish hero Jan Karski was tarnished by a historical blunder that...
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Published in: HomeJanusz Palikot’s ‘Cannabis Stunt’ Overshadowed a More Complex Debate about Drug Policy Reform in Poland
Palikot’s symbolic gesture played into the hands of a media that is eager to demonize the decriminalization...
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Published in: HomeEurope and democracy-promotion: making good
The Arab uprisings of 2011 are provoking the European Union into a rethink of its approach to encouraging democracy...
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Published in: HomeEurozone take-over
Poland's premier is ready to lead Poland into a new servitude to corporate greed
