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3 September 2020 Vladimir Mitev

Street protests and change: Bulgaria and Romania in each other’s mirror

The middle class struggles for change in Bulgaria, but the protests’ slogans deal with justice, not social affairs. Real change would come from the “downtrodden masses”, who need to find new energy, free time and financial resources in order to strengthen themselves politically. They are presently lured into populist and

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18 July 2020 Maria Cernat - Boyan Stanislasvski

Contempt dominated the Polish presidential elections in 2020

The poles have been for a long time under attack by discourses of intolerance and emotional exploitationMaria Cernat – Boyan StanislasvskiBoyan Stanislavski (Poland) and Maria Cernat (Romania) make a regular video podcast, in which they discuss various developments in Poland, Romania and the region. The work title of their podcast

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18 June 2020 The Barricade

How do evangelicals transform poor people into right-wingers?

Roberto Savio – the founder of the site The Other News, describes the political dimensions of evangelicalismThe Barricade

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1 July 2018 Vasile Ernu

Victoria Stoiciu: Capital is socially assisted in Romania, not the poor

Vasile Ernu speaks with Victoria Stoiciu about the new serfdom and the guaranteed minimum income: ”In our country the fight against poverty has turned into a fight against the poor” Vasile ErnuVasile Ernu is born in the USSR in 1971. He has graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy (The University

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18 April 2018 Georgi Hristov

The “Hunger Games” of Eastern Europe – Bulgarian “socialists” protest against social housing

Weird events have once again transpired on the outskirts of Europe. In Gorna Oryahovitsa, a provincial Bulgarian town, people have been up in arms over a social housing project out of fear it would become… a home for the poor. And to make it even weirder – the Bulgarian Socialist

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Postcard from Poland #8Boyan StanislavskiBulgarian and Polish activist, journalist, editor, publisher and

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22 December 2020 Maria Cernat

Bad joke! The far-right will lead the Romanian Parliamentary Commission for Equal Opportunities!

Postcard from Romania #3 Maria CernatMaria Cernat is a graduate of the

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19 November 2020 Boyan Stanislavski

Chaos, desperation and violence

Postcard from Poland #7Boyan StanislavskiBulgarian and Polish activist, journalist, editor, publisher and

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16 November 2020 Maria Cernat

Union Save Neoliberalism

Postcard from Romania #2Maria CernatMaria Cernat is a graduate of the Faculty

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