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West prepares to plunder post-war Ukraine with neoliberal shock therapy: privatization, deregulati..

Jake Kallio and Benjamin Norton
Analysis & reports
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Western governments and corporations met in Switzerland to plan harsh neoliberal economic policies to impose on post-war Ukraine, calling to cut labor laws, “open markets,” drop tariffs, deregulate industries, and “sell state-owned enterprises to private...

German capitalism needs its Green Party

Thomas Klikauer
Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe
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And there is nothing new about this. During the previous participation by the Greens in a coalition with the SPD, from 1998 to 2005, the Greens were just as neo-liberal and war-mongering as this time....

Will the forthcoming elections spell the end for Bosnia and Herzegovina?

Boyan Stanislavski
Bosnia and Herzegovina
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In the shadow of Ukraine's ongoing conflict, the West's ‘handicapped child’ in the Balkans may be about to simmer down for good. While the international public is preoccupied with the whirlwinds of the Ukrainian war,...

On the EU’s suicidal no-gas-or-oil-from-Russia madness /w Irina Slav

Boyan Stanislavski
Energy
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Irina Slav is a Bulgarian specialist in the production and trade of energy. In addition to being an author at OilPrice.com, she is also the proprietor of an independent blog, which can be found on...

Dangerous gas smell around Ukraine

Herman Michiel
Analysis
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If Russia invades Ukraine, the pipeline between Russia and Germany will not become operational. There will be no more Nord Stream 2. We will put an end to that. Promise, we are able to do...

Humanitarian crisis on the EU’s eastern border and the Polexit humbug

Maria Cernat - Boyan Stanislasvski
Human rights and civic liberties
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The Polish-Belarussian border became a place of utter terror for thousands of Middle Eastern migrants who were enticed by Belarussian dictatorial leader Lukashenko with the prospect of easy access to the European Union. The Polish...

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

The Barricade
Analysis
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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!

The Barricade
Analysis
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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...

June’s thumb-ups & thumb-downs: A week of summits demonstrates Europe’s geopolitical im..

Maria Cernat - Boyan Stanislasvski
Global affairs
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The G7 summit, the Biden-Putin summit, the EU-US summit... Isn't that a lot of summits for just a week or so? What does Eastern Europe stand to gain? Is it going to have an impact...

On the barricades — May’s thumb-ups & thumb-downs

Maria Cernat - Boyan Stanislasvski
Economy & finance
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We cover the most important events of the previous few weeks in this episode, which we usually release at the end of the month. May's selection was particularly difficult because there were so many interesting...