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Privatisation of progressivism – a possible source of endless scandals in the left camp

  • Maria Cernat Maria Cernat
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We're closing soon at the Institute for Social Solidarity. It looked like a project with great potential. A left-wing think-tank. Like so many other projects it ended sadly and with great resentment from some of...

Poland: Rage and fury after yet another fundamentalist excess

  • Boyan Stanislavski Boyan Stanislavski
  • Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe
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[caption id="attachment_2533" align="alignleft" width="169"] Protest in front of the Holy Cross church in Warsaw, the banner reads "no!", photo: Boyan Stanislavski[/caption] Since the shocking verdict of the Polish Constitutional Tribunal last Thursday, which resulted in...

The Left in Eastern Europe keeps losing because it lacks courage and identity

  • Maria Cernat - Boyan Stanislasvski Maria Cernat - Boyan Stanislasvski
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As Romania prepares for its local elections at the end of September 2020 scandals explode one after another, a very cheap and kitschy ones. Politicians swear on live TV programs, retired celebrities morph into politicians,...

The Romanian left looks for an exit from cheap labour’s trap

  • Vladimir Mitev Vladimir Mitev
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On 10 September 2019 the main Romanian media announced that “the era of cheap labour in Poland is coming to an end.” This was a statement by the prime minister Mateusz Morawiecki himself, who promised...

Lucian Sârbu: I am worried by the servility of Romanian politicians to the West

  • Vladimir Mitev Vladimir Mitev
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Lucian Sârbu graduated from university with degrees in philosophy and marketing. He has been a contributor to various cultural magazines and is one of the authors of the Romanian site "Arguments and Facts”. He has...
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