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Satan – the perfect scapegoat

Maria Cernat
Art & culture
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My story starts with a different scandal that erupted recently: A Romanian biscuit company, Ro Star, used pictures of Hitler on its Facebook to sell its product. The company even put a history question for...

Technocrats vs populists

Vladimir Mitev
Analysis
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This article was published on the Romanian section of the site ”The Barricade” on 14 February 2019. The forthcoming elections for the European Parliament reveal the division lines in Romanian and Bulgarian politics. The traditional...

“The bigger the lie, the more people tend to fall for it”

Maria Cernat
Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe
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[caption id="attachment_24" align="aligncentral" width="549"] Maria ȚoghinăSource: Personal Archives[/caption] In 2016 the Romanian government changed the law that regulated the financing of public media channels. Before 2016 every taxpayer used to pay a fixed amount of...

A new episode: Romanians against the political system

This article was first published on 8 October 2018 in the Romanian section of "The Barricade" website. The Romanian referendum through which traditionalists had hoped to define the family in the Constitution as the union...

Valer Simion Cosma: The Summer School at Telciu stirs up interest beyond the politicised circles o..

Vladimir Mitev
Art & culture
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Valer Simion Cosma (b. 1986) has a doctorate in History from Babeş-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca, with a thesis on the role of the clergy in the rural world of Transylvania in the XIX century. He...

The anti-politics of liberal ”analysis” displayed again. This time in Romania

Vladimir Borţun
Analysis
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For a peripheral country like Romania, the recent protests there (in August 2018) have received their fair share of attention in the international press. However, all analyses of these protests have come from a narrow,...

The Romanian ”Referendum for the Family” – a battle for a lost cause?

Maria Cernat
Analysis
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2015 was the year when the idea appeared for the Romanian Constitution to be modified in such a way that the marriage would be defined as the union between a man and a woman. The current article of...

Ahlam Chemlali: The Summer School at Telciu is a unique event

Vladimir Mitev
Interviews
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Ahlam Chemlali is from Copenhagen, Denmark, where she works as a programme manager at DIGNITY – The Danish Institute against Torture. In her work and research she has dealt with torture, migration, human rights abuses,...

The Black Sheep of Corruption

Florin E. Platon
Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe
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A position from the Romanian DiEM25 This article been circulated, amended and agreed by the Romanian members of DiEM25, for a radical approach against the corruption plaguing Romania and the entire Eastern Europe. We heard...

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” “On Wednesday 20 June 2018,...

Satan – the perfect scapegoat

Technocrats vs populists

“The bigger the lie, the more people tend to fall for it”

A new episode: Romanians against the political system

Valer Simion Cosma: The Summer School at Telciu stirs up interest beyond the politicised circles o..

The anti-politics of liberal ”analysis” displayed again. This time in Romania

The Romanian ”Referendum for the Family” – a battle for a lost cause?

Ahlam Chemlali: The Summer School at Telciu is a unique event

The Black Sheep of Corruption

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