Poland – Page 3 – The Barricade

Which are the good and the bad news from the parliamentary elections in Poland?

Maria Cernat
Gender issues
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There is a heated debate in Poland about a controversial law project that would prevent children and young people under 18 from getting any kind of information on sexuality. Boyan Stanislavski was just returning from...

Nur für Heterosexuelle? Major Polish pro-government media outlet launches a shocking Nazi-esque ca..

Boyan Stanislavski
Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe
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The masks have dropped: Dr Goebbels, the infamous Nazi propagandist-in-chief of the Third Reich must be cheering in his grave. The most recent instigation by Gazeta Polska (Polish Gazette) smells of hitlerite intention. #StrefaWolnaOdLGBT #naklejka...

Op-ed: The banana outrage in Poland

Boyan Stanislavski
Art & culture
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There is no limit to the perverted prudery and hypocrisy of the current Polish government. One of my favorite ministers, the one in charge of culture, Piotr Gliński, has however elevated it all to a...

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...

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...

Young Polish social-democrats: not radical enough to succeed?

Małgorzata Kulbaczewska-Figat
Analysis
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Three years ago, a new political party called Razem (Together) stunned public opinion in Poland. A circle of young people, most, but not all of them previously active in the Young Socialists group, not only...

Codru Vrabie: Romanian anti-corruption fight may take a new form, but it won’t cease

Vladimir Mitev
Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe
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The good governance expert talked with Baricada about the evolution of the anti-corruption fight in Romania, the shortcomings of the current discourse on potential union with the Republic of Moldova, and the need for concrete...

Polish Catholic hierarchy contra carers for the disabled

Piotr Nowak
Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe
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The Church hierarchy has failed protesting families. One archbishop has accused them of having too great a sense of entitlement. Parents along with their disabled children have been occupying a corridor in the Polish parliament...

Poland: Growing neo-Nazi arrogance, a case study

Małgorzata Kulbaczewska-Figat
Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe
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“In a blessed falling asleep, grant, O Lord, eternal rest unto Thy departed servants…” Pause. Before Father Jan Romańczuk finishes the memorial service for the victims of Romuald Rajs’s troop, he has to put his...

Which are the good and the bad news from the parliamentary elections in Poland?

Nur für Heterosexuelle? Major Polish pro-government media outlet launches a shocking Nazi-esque ca..

Op-ed: The banana outrage in Poland

Poles are poor, the average wage statistic is delusional

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

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

Codru Vrabie: Romanian anti-corruption fight may take a new form, but it won’t cease

Polish Catholic hierarchy contra carers for the disabled

Poland: Growing neo-Nazi arrogance, a case study

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