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Bulgaria’s anti-vaxx fervor reaches new heights

Boyan Stanislavski
Bulgaria
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Four police officers were taken to the hospital, and several journalists were injured, after a crowd protesting the government's new anti-Covid measures became strange and violent in the Bulgarian capital's city center on January 12. According to...

Don’t look up! – a cheap political satire or a brilliant mockumentary? – part 2

Maria Cernat - Boyan Stanislasvski
Art & culture
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The end of 2021 was marked by vivid discussions around political satire. Whether you liked it or not, Don’t look up! is one of the most debated movies of all time. However, is this truly...

Don’t look up! – a cheap political satire or a brilliant mockumentary?

Maria Cernat - Boyan Stanislasvski
Art & culture
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The end of 2021 was marked by vivid discussions around political satire. Whether you liked it or not, Don’t look up! is one of the most debated movies of all time. However, is this truly...

Germany’s declining middle class

Thomas Klikauer - Catherine Link
Coronavirus
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Even though Marx’s well-acknowledged truth that capitalism creates two classes is over 160 years old, class remains a much debated issue. Marx’s idea is relatively straightforward. In capitalism, there are two classes: firstly, there are workers or proletariat. Workers...

The marketing genius behind “Don’t look up”

Maria Cernat
Art & culture
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It's been a long time since I've seen a debate that brought so many people together while also causing divisions in various groups. Everyone seems to be shouting "don't look up!" on social media. The...

A free man in Belmarsh

“They must feel that they are weak. How could this very establishment in the United Kingdom, which has been in power for hundreds of years, feel threatened? It’s quite sophisticated after all. It has many...

The Euro Peripheries: how the EU is (dis)organizing its agricultural sector

Maria Cernat - Boyan Stanislasvski
Bulgaria
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Veronika Susova-Salminen is one of the members who worked on the project A Hundred Shades of the EU – Mapping the Political Economy of the Euro Peripheries with the support of Transform! Europe and the...

European periphery — EU’s dark side w/ Veronika Sušová-Salminen

Maria Cernat - Boyan Stanislasvski
Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe
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Veronika Sušová-Salminen is our guest "On the Barricades" this weekend. She is a researcher from the Czech Republic, who produced a report on the peripheries of the European Union in a project supported by Transform!...

European Forum 2021 – Videos and Recordings

The Barricade
Analysis
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This year's Forum was held in Brussels and online on 26 and 27 November. Starting on 15 November, a number of online events took place in the framework of the Forum, like the presentation of...

A new PR stunt puts Poland on the front pages of mainstream press again

Maria Cernat - Boyan Stanislasvski
Journalism and Media
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Last week Poles took to the streets to protest a controversial media bill adopted by the Parliament. The bill regulates the foreign ownership of h in Poland stipulating that media channels have to be owned...