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Poland: Time to abolish the codgerstate

Boyan Stanislavski
Gender issues
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The ongoing protests in Poland are not merely a breath of fresh air. They have already made a significant imprint on the entire public sphere and thrown the ruling elites into panic and desperation; not...

Over 100 people protested before the Polish embassy in Bucharest

Maria Cernat
Gender issues
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More than 100 people, most of them Poles, protested before the embassy of their country in Bucharest on Friday evening, 30 October. At that time, Warsaw saw more than 100,000 people demonstrating against the Constitutional...

Could a new constitution be the solution to Bulgaria’s democracy’s flaws?

Vladimir Mitev
Bulgaria
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An unhappy wife says to her husband: “I want a divorce.” He answers: “I will write a new constitution.” It is one of the jokes that circulates on Bulgarian social networks these days. The Bulgarian...

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...

“We are the Apocalypse, we are the end of Patriarchy”

The Barricade
Gender issues
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On 8th March 2020 there was a feminist protest (Feminist Liturgy) next to the People's Salvation Cathedral in Bucharest, which is a major initiative and investment of the Romanian orthodox church and is yet to...

If one falls, we all fall! What is the price of (in)security?

Adina Marincea
Gender issues
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The protest “If one falls, we all fall!”, which took place before the internal ministry in Bucharest on Sunday, July 28, was a reaction against the suspected killing of two adolescents from the town of...

The protests in France and their future

Maria Cernat
Global affairs
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Bruno Drwęski is a historian, a political scientist, the director of the Polish section of the National Institute of Oriental Languages and Civilizations (INALCO), and a member of Sorbonne University. He is also general secretary...

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: Time to abolish the codgerstate

Over 100 people protested before the Polish embassy in Bucharest

Could a new constitution be the solution to Bulgaria’s democracy’s flaws?

Mass arrest of LGBT people marks turning point for Poland

“We are the Apocalypse, we are the end of Patriarchy”

If one falls, we all fall! What is the price of (in)security?

The protests in France and their future

Polish Catholic hierarchy contra carers for the disabled

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