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The Romanian Fascist Feeling

We cannot understand the past without understanding our present. This apparently paradoxical statement tries to deal with the revivement of various and multifarious forms of fascism today. In contemporary Romania, more than thirty years after...

Who bought Politico for a billion dollars? A right-wing German news conglomerate?

Thomas Klikauer - Meg Young
Germamy
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At the end of August 2021, Germany’s right-wing Axel Springer bought the US political magazine Politico for about $1bn (€850m) – the most expensive acquisition in the history of Germany’s right-wing Springer Group. Until the...

Germany’s new neo-Nazis: the Reichsbürger

Thomas Klikauer - Meg Young
Democracy
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Only a few weeks ago, a Reichsbürger in Germany shot a police officer with a crossbow during a house’s search in a remote town called Linden, in the north of Hessen. The Reichsbürger is accused of attempted manslaughter...

Elections in Russia rigged against the CPRF? w/ Ilya Budraitskis

Maria Cernat - Boyan Stanislasvski
Elections
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Is Russia any different now that the recent parliamentary election has passed? It doesn't appear to be. The growing popularity of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, on the other hand, deserves the attention...

Post-socialist angles of left political strategy

Andris Šuvajevs
Analysis
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The latter half of the past decade saw an unexpected reinvigoration of political projects on the Euro-Atlantic left. Political movements like the Occupy Wall Street in the US and the public against austerity in the...

Why did the EU accept authoritarianism in Bulgaria but object to it in Belarus?

The Barricade
Analysis
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This is the second part of a two-part discussion on Europe's growing authoritarian tendencies, especially in Eastern Europe. We'll talk about the West's hypocritical and selective response to this phenomenon in this segment. The EU,...

While the EU opposes authoritarianism in Eastern Europe, it is delighted with its own!

The Barricade
Analysis
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This is the first installment of a series of commentaries produced by The Barricade and The Analysis in collaboration. Journalists from Bulgarian, Romanian, and Polish left-wing media gather to discuss the situation in Eastern Europe...

Authoritarian populism and democracy

Thomas Klikauer - Meg Young
Analysis
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One of the key activities of authoritarian populism is to present the democratic system as, a system of lies incapable of representing the true will of the people. In the world of the authoritarian populists,...

Why is xenophobia the most prevalent conviction in Bulgaria?

Pawel_Tsch
Bulgaria
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The Bulgarian population is rife with negative stereotypes about others — Turks, Roma, Jews, refugees, and sexual minorities. Anyone familiar with the situation on the ground will recognize that such sentiments have always been a...

“European identity” after Brexit means disappointment, frustration and confusion

Vladimir Mitev
Immigration
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In the United Kingdom, the terms "Europe" and "European" appear to have acquired a negative connotation. Unpleasant incidents are becoming more common. How did we end up in this predicament? Yes, a lot has changed...