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St. Business and the left-wing devil

Maria Cernat - Boyan Stanislasvski
Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe
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“In Romania there has been a lot of talk in the last decades on the country’s alleged subordinate position to the Soviet Union after the Second World War. But if you raise some questions about...

Mass arrest of LGBT people marks turning point for Poland

Claudia Ciobanu
Gender issues
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This article was published on 13 August 2020 at BIRN and is republished with the approval of the author Claudia Ciobanu. “I arrived at the Copernicus monument at around nine in the evening, and I...

Ignorance and persecution harm Eastern Europe’s vulnerable people over issues of sexuality and gen..

Maria Cernat - Boyan Stanislasvski
Gender issues
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The newest episode of The Barricade’s podcast deals with the most recent abuses in Romania and Poland. Is Eastern Europe plagued by ignorance to the essence of human sexuality or suffering from a deliberate effort...

Rampant right-wing hooliganism is now mainstream politics

Boyan Stanislavski
Postcards from Poland
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So, this is an effort sum up the events which transpired last weekend. The Polish right-wing extremists marched through the streets of Warsaw to commemorate an uprising organized against their analogs from over 70 years...

LGBT community trumps the Russians as public enemy №1 in Poland

Maria Cernat - Boyan Stanislasvski
Gender issues
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There are two “public enemies” in Poland: Russia and the LGBT community. Recently, the LGBT community found itself under heavy fire since the government of Catholic fundamentalists Law and Justice takes pride in vilifying these...

Contempt dominated the Polish presidential elections in 2020

Maria Cernat - Boyan Stanislasvski
On the Barricades Special (Podcast)
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The Civic Platform's presidential candidate, the current mayor of Warsaw, Rafał Trzaskowski, lost the elections in Poland. What happened afterward was a demonization of Andrzej Duda's voters. This type of political tribalism is not something...

Church-created problems in Poland and Romania

Maria Cernat - Boyan Stanislasvski
History
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The Church is considered the ultimate spiritual, God-given power, while the State represents the earthly preoccupations of humankind. In reality, often both powers need each other thus giving rise to problems with this symbiotic communion....

The conservative crusade against Gender Studies and Education: It is not “Sex sells”, it is “Fear ..

Maria Cernat - Boyan Stanislasvski
Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe
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In June 2020 the Romanian President Klaus Iohannis took to the Constitutional Court a legislative modification banning the discussion on gender studies in educational institutions thereby seeking to wash his hands from having to make...

The EU’s refoundation is a necessity

Vladimir Mitev
Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe
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Małgorzata Kulbaczewska-Figat is a Polish journalist, deputy editor-in-chief of the leading Polish left-wing news and analytics website Strajk.eu, and one of the authors of “Dziennik Trybuna”. She holds a degree in Eastern European affairs from...

Polish union leader: “Aid funds will end quickly, the scale of unemployment and bankruptcy w..

Małgorzata Kulbaczewska-Figat
Coronavirus
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An interview with Piotr Szumlewicz, chairman of the trade union Trade Union Alternative, shortly after Polish prime minister Mateusz Morawiecki and president Andrzej Duda presented the essential ideas behind their Anti-crisis Shield. Coronavirus has exposed...

St. Business and the left-wing devil

Mass arrest of LGBT people marks turning point for Poland

Ignorance and persecution harm Eastern Europe’s vulnerable people over issues of sexuality and gen..

Rampant right-wing hooliganism is now mainstream politics

LGBT community trumps the Russians as public enemy №1 in Poland

Contempt dominated the Polish presidential elections in 2020

Church-created problems in Poland and Romania

The conservative crusade against Gender Studies and Education: It is not “Sex sells”, it is “Fear ..

Polish union leader: “Aid funds will end quickly, the scale of unemployment and bankruptcy w..

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