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The Catholic fanatics in Poland take on witchcraft by publicly burning books

Boyan Stanislavski
Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe
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From the regular meddling in the internal political process of the country, via their lament against ‘satanic’ LEGO bits and hue and cry over goat cheese sold at 6.66 PLN in a chain of German...

Technocrats vs populists

Vladimir Mitev
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This article was published on the Romanian section of the site ”The Barricade” on 14 February 2019. The forthcoming elections for the European Parliament reveal the division lines in Romanian and Bulgarian politics. The traditional...

“The bigger the lie, the more people tend to fall for it”

Maria Cernat
Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe
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[caption id="attachment_24" align="aligncentral" width="549"] Maria ȚoghinăSource: Personal Archives[/caption] In 2016 the Romanian government changed the law that regulated the financing of public media channels. Before 2016 every taxpayer used to pay a fixed amount of...

Poles are poor, the average wage statistic is delusional

Стоян Гогов
Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe
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The Central Statistics Office (GUS) has just published its monthly report on wages in Poland for December 2018 and the annual report for the entire past year. There were no surprises. The average wage is...

In a trap of credit and loans: Private debt in Poland is skyrocketing

Boyan Stanislavski
Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe
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Statistically speaking, an average Polish citizen is burdened with a debt of 4,531 Polish zloty (PLN) which is the equivalent of €1,040. The growth of individual debt is alarming. Back in 2015 this figure was...

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Disgusting neo-Nazi recidivism in Sofia – 16 years of the Lukov March

Boyan Stanislavski
Bulgaria
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The Lukov March is an abhorrent event. It is a torch-lit, neo-Nazi demonstration organized annually in February to honor the memory of Hristo Lukov (1887-1943) - a general, politician and minister of war from 1935...

Desecrated anniversary: Polish proto-fascists and anti-Semites march at the gates of Auschwitz

Boyan Stanislavski
Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe
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Hundreds of journalists, Holocaust survivors and their family members from around the world, who gathered to commemorate the shut down of one of the most symbolic places of the Holocaust, were exposed to a bizarre...

Uberization and global financial capitalism

Bogdan Gradinaru
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The purpose of this writing is two-fold - to throw a bit of light onto the closely intermingled relationship between big tech, epitomized by Silicon Valley companies and global financial capitalism, and then to see...

Bulgaria has sold weapons to 110 countries in 5 years

Ivaylo Atanasov
Bulgaria
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The Bulgarian economy could pride itself for the results in 2017. The country has become the leading exporter of many goods. In fact, Bulgaria became the second largest exporter in the world of raw duck...

Bleak prospects for feminism in Russia

Maria Cernat
Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe
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Combating hate speech and extremism are two notions very seriously embed in the federal law in Russia. The legal framework evolved over the course of the past two decades. Here is how. The article 282...