Political Critique Archive

Sandro Gozi, an MEP, and ardent European federalist, remains convinced that international coordination, within the EU, remains the best response to this current dilemma.

Who are the sardines and how long can they last? An interview with Paul Ginsborg.

By Andriy Avramenko After the World War II Italy, a traditional source of migration to the US, Argentina, Brazil and different Latin American countries, was experiencing a remarkable economic growth alongside with other Western European states, known as “Trente Glorieuses”. In 1990s Italian GDP per capita (PPP) was higher than similar indicators of France and […]

This interview was first published in Salon, the supplement of the Czech daily Právo. In the article Gender as symbolic glue: how ‘gender’ became an umbrella term for the rejection of the (neo)liberal order, you wrote with Weronika Grzebalska and Andrea Pető about the gender as a symbol for various deficiencies in society. Why did […]

In the summer, Poland’s countryside is covered in beautiful pastels and the sun glints off marshy rivers that criss-cross the landscape. But for the 60 percent of Poles who live in urban areas, the summer means the return of stifling heat waves and a clear reminder that their homes remain year-round under a suffocating blanket […]

The footbridge is narrow, with a high fence on both sides. From Monday to Friday, Grzegorz walks it twice a day. Cars pass underneath his feet; the sun has just risen. He looks ahead, at men and women who, like him, are walking towards Gate Six. The Skoda Factory is the very heart of Mladá […]

We have arrived at the time of the year where Czechia must once again undergo the sad, insufferable annual award ceremony for the  Czech Republic’s highest distinctions and medals (a state function our beloved President has managed to thoroughly and utterly privatize.) Often accompanied by a traditional Presidential rant pointing out the various sponsors, cronies, […]

On a rainy November day, public transport broke down in important parts of Budapest under the burden of extraordinary security measures enacted for the visit of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Erdoğan spent an entire day in the Hungarian capital as part of a visit that can best be described as a diplomatic middle finger […]

Before the European Parliament elections in 2019, Transeuropa Caravans, a pro-European integration activist group, set out to explore EU countries and “places of struggle and resistance, in defense of fundamental rights beyond borders.” The project took the activists across 15 countries where the diversity in political landscapes varied as much as the social and cultural […]

Goodbye, Sinatra of the East Firstly, to get it out of the way and since there is no avoiding talking about it: the schlager singer and Czechia’s number one superstar emeritus Karel Gott has died, much to the grief of his mostly retired fanbase. Gott’s Germany-style repertoire has been a strong symbol of the proud […]