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If one falls, we all fall! What is the price of (in)security?

Adina Marincea
Gender issues
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The protest “If one falls, we all fall!”, which took place before the internal ministry in Bucharest on Sunday, July 28, was a reaction against the suspected killing of two adolescents from the town of...

The Romanian Black Sea coast is the embodiment of precarious labour

The Barricade
Interviews
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The site Recorder recently released a video report from the Romanian Black Sea coast, which presented the dramatic situation of the tourism industry’s labour force. The report circulated the idea that there isn’t a sufficient...

I, the caregiver – stories from “the grey zone”

Tzvetelina Kirilova
Immigration
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A few days ago I read on a Bulgarian site about an Armenian caregiver, who threw herself from the window of an Athenian hospital after a check by the Greek Labour Inspection Office. She worked...

Nur für Heterosexuelle? Major Polish pro-government media outlet launches a shocking Nazi-esque ca..

Boyan Stanislavski
Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe
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The masks have dropped: Dr Goebbels, the infamous Nazi propagandist-in-chief of the Third Reich must be cheering in his grave. The most recent instigation by Gazeta Polska (Polish Gazette) smells of hitlerite intention. #StrefaWolnaOdLGBT #naklejka...

The housing market has no ethics, therefore it must be limited

Zsolt Levente Dobrai - Péter Máthé
Housing
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In June 2019, 77,001 Berliners had already signed the initiative of the movement Deutsche Wohnen und Co. Enteignen (Expropriate Deutsche Wohnen and Co.), which aims to force the local authorities to organise a referendum on...

Crime and punishment: The Khachaturyan case

Maria Cernat
Gender issues
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A very unsettling event took place in Russia. A year ago, three sisters, Kristina, 19, Angelina, 18, and Maria, 17, brutally murdered their abusive father. Now the prosecution is trying to sentence them to 20...

Another ‘war hero’ honored in Lithuania: A nazi-collaborating priest, of course

Małgorzata Kulbaczewska-Figat
Baltic states
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[caption id="attachment_1507" align="alignleft" width="300"] Efraim Zuroff, source: Wikimedia Commons[/caption] The scandalous act was first reported in the Jerusalem Post by Efraim Zuroff. He is an American-born, well-known Israeli historian and Nazi hunter who has played...

The Greens in Germany – from left-wing fundamentalism to neo-liberal “centrism”

Bogdan Gradinaru
Analysis
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A large black sea with small, green, urban islands, while in the middle of nowhere red ones, and a peripheral blue area, towards the East – this is what Germany’s election map looks like after...

Op-ed: The banana outrage in Poland

Boyan Stanislavski
Art & culture
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There is no limit to the perverted prudery and hypocrisy of the current Polish government. One of my favorite ministers, the one in charge of culture, Piotr Gliński, has however elevated it all to a...

Satan – the perfect scapegoat

Maria Cernat
Art & culture
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My story starts with a different scandal that erupted recently: A Romanian biscuit company, Ro Star, used pictures of Hitler on its Facebook to sell its product. The company even put a history question for...