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A group of masked far-right nationalists disrupted a lecture at Warsaw University. The lecture was given by the centre-left politician Magdalena Środa. The protestors shouted ’anti-communist slogans (such as – Hammer and Sickle, Red Rabble - Raz sierpem, raz młotem czerwoną hołotę). The demonstrators were eventually removed from the building and the lecture allowed to go ahead. Organisers claimed that [...]
In the first of two interviews with EUROPP editors Stuart A Brown and Chris Gilson, Noam Chomsky discusses technocratic governance in Europe, why the eurozone’s austerity policies are failing to solve the crisis, and the rise of the far-right in countries such as Greece and France. What do you think the use of technocratic governments [...]
Like most countries in the region, Hungary hasn’t had it easy. Democracy wasn’t quite the fluffy experience the abstract western examples had seemingly shown. The economy was downright awful and for the first post transition decade, and along with the market economy came widespread existential angst, which had previously been the sad privilege only of dissidents. Even [...]
Migration to Italy is a well established phenomenon. For about forty years, migrants from third world countries have entered the peninsula in search of better economic conditions or because they are fleeing armed conflict or natural disasters in their countries of origin. Over recent years, the number of immigrants has grown exponentially. Currently in Italy [...]
We are fighting for a Sustainable Economy, Public Services for all, the Good Society and Multilateral Foreign Policy. We are fighting against Greed and Corruption, Old Politics, Media Manipulation and Racism and Extremism. In my most skeptic or despairing moods, when I am wondering what again it means to be social-democrat, progressive or left-wing, I [...]
Culminating in the current economic crisis, neoliberal restructuring has led to growing social disintegration and increasing exclusion from societal participation. This indicates a profound social and a latent political crisis, as reflected by, partly tremendous, electoral gains of the extreme right in many European countries. Reawakening nationalisms and increasing xenophobia, racism, Islamophobia and sexism characterise [...]
We could easily agree that the plight of the Roma, as accurately and alarmingly portrayed by George Soros on this Social Europe website, remains a human tragedy of unprecedented historical proportions. The Roma’s unremitting story of poverty, discrimination, (self-)marginalization, expulsion and persecution, notably in the barbaric Nazi-years, is a grim reminder of how people treat other people ‘because [...]
The Roma have been persecuted across Europe for centuries. Now they face a form of discrimination unseen in Europe since World War II: group evictions and expulsions from several European democracies of men, women, and children on the grounds that they pose a threat to public order. Last week, France began to carry out plans [...]
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