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Published in: Countering the Radical Right: AnalysisWhat happens when governments deny racism exists?A recent government report concluded that the UK does not have a problem with racism. But history shows us the...
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Published in: Countering the Radical RightIs fascism returning to Romania?A new Romanian radical right party is resurrecting Romania’s interwar fascism.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Bulgarian protests: battles over anti-corruption?The ‘Anti-corruption’ fight in Bulgaria that erupted again on July 9, 2020, is caught in a clash between two...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?US vs. THEM – corona crisis exposes social cleavages in RomaniaKnee-jerk reactions to Romanians returning home reflect broader processes of social distancing, set in motion long...
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Published in: 50.50‘You have to be alone’: Romanian women recount traumatic COVID pregnanciesIn Romania, government guidelines contravene advice from the World Health Organisation – with women outside the...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Eyes wide shut: collective punishment of Roma in 21st-century Europe75 years after the liberation of Auschwitz, despite the EU Framework for Roma Integration which closes this year,...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?No politics, no society: the unbearable lightness in interpreting RomaniaAnticorruption and anti-communism are fundamentally red herrings, always at hand to be used and abused, both...
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Published in: Countering the Radical RightRomania’s history wars: on the sufferings of fascist saintsHow do memories about fascism and communism shape Romanian identity and party politics?
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Published in: Countering the Radical RightWhy the radical right love their intellectualsThere is much we can learn from the 1920’s and 1930’s. For example, it was not only his ideas that made Nae Ionescu...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?What’s next for Romania?‘In the city, we want change, the young people are demanding change. There is a real division between urban and...
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Published in: 50.50Romanians didn’t show up to an anti-LGBT referendum. But the battle for equality continuesA vote to make legalising equal marriage even harder was defeated this weekend. It’s a victory for progressive...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?When liberals have had enough: a new wave of protests in RomaniaWhereas the stereotypical pro-government voter consumes partisan local media; by contrast, the stereotypical...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Poor child healthcare in Bulgaria and RomaniaSimilar problems are observed as in Romania, joined by Bulgaria at the bottom of the league table in terms of infant...
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Published in: 50.50“Our strategy is visibility”: the fight for LGBT rights in RomaniaViolence and anti-LGBT hate crime is on the rise in Romania, says activist Vlad Viski. But he and his colleagues...
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Published in: 50.50How Romania became a battleground in the transatlantic backlash against LGBT rightsRomania decriminalised homosexuality in 2001. Today it is witnessing a backlash against LGBT rights, supported by US...
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Published in: HomeBought and paid for – how Romania’s media is pressured by corporate and political mastersJournalists in Romania failing to conform to pressure from private companies and advertisers face intimidation and...
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Published in: oDRPhotographing the 20th centuryHungarian artist Peter Puklus talks about his photography book The Epic Love Story of a Warrior, European history of...
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Published in: HomeThe other side of Europe: the exploitation of Romanian workers in the EUWhat will it take to stop western Europe from seeing their eastern counterparts as exploitable labour?
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?‘The best Roma in the village is the Roma who works as a servant’On this year's International Roma Day, three writers reflect on how Roma slave labour was used to help build...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The mystery of ‘populism’ finally unveiledThe philosopher of post-Fascism enters the populism fray with his own candidate for post-truth – Left betrayal. Czech.
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