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The anti-politics of liberal ”analysis” displayed again. This time in Romania

Vladimir Borţun
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For a peripheral country like Romania, the recent protests there (in August 2018) have received their fair share of attention in the international press. However, all analyses of these protests have come from a narrow,...

The Romanian ”Referendum for the Family” – a battle for a lost cause?

Maria Cernat
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2015 was the year when the idea appeared for the Romanian Constitution to be modified in such a way that the marriage would be defined as the union between a man and a woman. The current article of...

Gregor Gysi: The social question is a human question

Julia Vladimirova
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Gregor Gysi is one of the most impressive political figures in Germany and a key name for the German Left (Die Linke). Gysi's political career began in the late 1960s, when he became part of...

Can DiEM25 produce a new deal for Eastern Europe?

Bogdan Gradinaru
Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe
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In this paper I would like to highlight what the DiEM25 movement is about, what made it appealing to me, what its political and economic agenda would be, and how I see those things in...

We need to recover democracy and to radicalize it

Raya Apostolova - Momchil Hristov
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Chantal Mouffe is professor of Political Theory at the Centre for the Study of Democracy at the University of Westminster. She is a cowriter of the seminal Hegemony and Socialist Strategy (1985), one of the...

Ovidiu Ţichindeleanu: Does Eastern Europe have the power to de-link itself from the mechanisms of ..

Vladimir Mitev
Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe
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Ovidiu Ţichindeleanu is a philosopher and a theorist of culture, a co-founder of the Romanian left-wing site CriticAtac, the Romanian platform Indymedia, and the Eastern European left-wing political platform, LeftEast. He was a member of...

Nicola Miller on socialist architecture and its destruction in Bulgaria

Стоян Гогов
Bulgaria
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Nikola Miller is one of the most talented and good photographers of abandoned buildings and ruinous monuments in Bulgaria. The fact that she is a foreigner gives her a different and much more unbiased perspective,...

Orban and the modern Central European witchhunt

Lacko Solymár
Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe
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In 1116 Coloman the Learned, Hungary’s king at the time, declared there were no such things as witches, and this saved us from burning each other at the stake. A pillar of “western civilization” development...

Ahlam Chemlali: The Summer School at Telciu is a unique event

Vladimir Mitev
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Ahlam Chemlali is from Copenhagen, Denmark, where she works as a programme manager at DIGNITY – The Danish Institute against Torture. In her work and research she has dealt with torture, migration, human rights abuses,...

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