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Published in: 50.50: NewsAnti-LGBTIQ murders were result of years of hate in Slovakia – victims’ friendRecent terrorist shooting of two queer people shows things are worsening for the community, say activists
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Free European cities in democratic allianceMeet Zdeněk Hřib, the mayor who challenged Russia, China, and the V4. Interview.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Women in power: countries with female leaders suffer six times fewer Covid deaths and will recover sooner from recessionThey did not underestimate the risks, focused on preventative measures and prioritized long-term social wellbeing...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Visegradism, Babišism and selfishness as a political programmeSelfishness as a programme: that is the essence of the approach of politicians such as Babiš, Orbán and Kaczyński.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?A shared sense of media freedom is alive and ready to strike backThe author’s speech at the Budapest award ceremony of the European Press Prize, March 14, 2018, with closing words...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Racism's cruelest cut: coercive sterilisation of Romani women and their fight for justice in the Czech Republic (1966-2016)A government-sponsored eugenics programme in Czechoslovakia sterilised Roma women without their knowledge; though...
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Published in: HomeSlovakia: when seeing means myopiaObservation is one tool for approaching an understanding of socio-economic marginality – especially in its...
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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?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?What does an anti-Semitic party look like in Europe today?As Britain debates antisemitism and the left, support for populist right-wing parties using hardline anti-Semitic...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Slovakia: Roma exclusion and the dark side of democracyThe EU should heed Slovakia consistently falling short of ‘Council of Europe standards’ in a seemingly inexorable...
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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?The refugee question in Europe: 'south' vs 'east'The refugee crisis has triggered a diplomatic row between Greece and certain 'new' member-states from Central and...
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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?“We are not anti-Greeks”: the need for a return of solidarity to eastern Europe“Greece hasn’t even dreamt about what Slovakia had to go through, what does it mean to carry out real reforms and...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Europe’s migration crisis: central Europe’s dangerous gameShould 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?Interethnic communication in ‘Borderlands’The Macedonian government shows little interest in fostering interethnic communication. It relies on nationalistic...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The conspiratorial mindset in EuropeScepticism is healthy for democracy, but not when it degenerates into belief in conspiracy theories. Dieudonné and...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Slovakia: right-wing extremism on the riseMarian Kotleba, a well-known figure of the Slovak neo-Nazi scene, was recently elected as governor of the central...
