How can Serbia's compassionate treatment of refugees be explained and what does it tell us about the country – and Europe?
Theatre Replika's We Are The Rubbish From Eastern Europe documents everyday life in order to illustrates just how pervasive the remnants of Bulgaria's socialist legacy are.
There is no denying the severe economic crisis Brazil is going through. Dilma Rousseff’s government is reacting to it with the very same neoliberal policies that she always blamed on her opponents. Español. Português.
What is the 'Prague Café', and why has it become the Czech President's insult of choice for his opponents?
An Open Source (Technologies) Agency, far removed from the secret intelligence world, would radically reduce wars and illegal immigration, increase trade and shared prosperity, and convert the USA into a “Smart Nation”.
The recent Serbia-Albania football match was like a microcosm of the twenty-first century Balkans: lots of intense, emotional nationalism and "othering" and in the end, the result was completely irrelevant.
Why is communist nostalgia on the rise in Eastern Europe, and is it more than just a passing fad?
While the world focuses on refugees arriving in Europe from warzones in the Middle East, the plight of those fleeing war in Ukraine has been forgotten.
Mauritania’s anti-slavery movement is everything BTS implies it's not: ethnically diverse, grassroots, and historically aware. Those who suffer extreme oppression need the power academics can mobilise, not poorly-conceived criticism.
We must avoid using Holocaust commemorations solely to consign Judeophobia to an eternal yesterday. We must recall the Holocaust in order to warn the world about similar and ongoing antisemitism in our world today.
"Leave everything valuable in your car or in a locker. They will try to steal it all," says the woman in charge of the well-being of refugees in the detention centre.
Both pro and anti-TTIP camps have pitched their tents, but their respective points of reference are worlds apart. We need to be clear about what exactly we're discussing here.
