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

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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!

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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...

Conference on the Future of Europe – Considerations from the Left Perspective

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An opportunity for a profound and broad debate on the future development of the EU including the Treaties? Read here the position of the Party of the European Left on the "Conference on the Future...

Covid-19 propaganda in Australia

Thomas Klikauer
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Recently, Australia’s Prime Minister Scott Morrison who is commonly known as “Scotty from Marketing” – in short: Scomo – said, his Covid-19 “exit strategy depends largely on vaccination rates”. This is fine propaganda. Yet it does...

Authoritarian populism and democracy

Thomas Klikauer - Meg Young
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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,...

Capitalism and its pathologies

Thomas Klikauer - Meg Young
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Perhaps ever since ironmonger and Baptist lay preacher Thomas Newcomen applied his newly invented steam engine in 1712 to pump water out of a coal mine to increase profits, we were doomed to live in an economic...

Is the United States putting undue pressure on Bulgaria over the North Macedonia dispute?

Bozhidar Angelov
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The news was first reported in an interview with the Macedonian News Agency (MIA) by Daniel Serwer, an American expert on the Balkans. However, many Bulgarian media headlines about this issue are deceptive because they...

Against the false duo. Eastern European left and change

Kamran Baradaran - Vladimir Mitev
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"The failure to change the world may not be unrelated to the failure to understand it." - Ray Brassier, Concepts and Objects There's an old Soviet joke from "Radio Yerevan" series popular in the 1950s....

Croatia’s announced course towards the eurozone gets Serbia unhappy

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Ever since the 2013 Croatian accession to the European Union, Croatian governments have been eager to pursue the goals of European integration, one of them being joining the Eurozone. The ruling EPP-aligned HDZ government has...

Cross-border Talks: hot July in South-Eastern Europe

Małgorzata Kulbaczewska-Figat - Vladimir Mitev
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We are excited to launch a new international media initiative - the Cross-Border Talks podcast will be co-hosted by Małgorzata Kulbaczewska-Figat, Strajk's deputy editor and author of numerous texts on Eastern European politics, and Vladimir...

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

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

Covid-19 propaganda in Australia

Authoritarian populism and democracy

Capitalism and its pathologies

Is the United States putting undue pressure on Bulgaria over the North Macedonia dispute?

Croatia’s announced course towards the eurozone gets Serbia unhappy

Cross-border Talks: hot July in South-Eastern Europe

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