Political Critique Archive

From the time he became the prime minister of Hungary, Orban was always interested in concentrating all the power in his hands.

Celebrate the rights of those 5 per cent who hold 80 per cent of the planet’s biodiversity. Today is the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples.

Polish Parliament had unanimously approved an amendment to the drug law. Law and Justice is contributing yet another chapter to the pointless fight against legal highs in Poland.

In the Czech Republic, the real problem appears to be the communists, or rather, the spirits of the country’s communist past

*Impressions from the Campus of European Alternatives 2018 “Why is it so dark in here,” whispers the person next to me. We are in a room with many windows, yet, all blinds are shut. Outside, the blazing midday sun illuminates the rows of cypress, olive and fig trees lined up along the Tuscan hills. Inside, […]

Krytyka Polityczna Athens talks to Taher, the Syrian chef whose passion and love for what he does acts as a driving force that never abandons neither his spirit nor his good fortune. His empowering outlook of life is filled with gratitude and grace every step of the way. A culinary healer exudes joy, which is […]

Identity politics is the product of a post-modern culture where the liberal dismissal of ends, and the consequent economic and technological transformations, combine to produce angry and resentful populations

Donatella della Porta is an Italian professor of political science and Director of the PhD program in Political Science and Sociology at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Florence. She was the first keynote lecturer to have taken part in the Campus of European Alternatives last week in Florence. During her lecture “Critical young Europeans” she […]

Just when the country has become a confidante of the EU and the US for the Balkans, a new report thinks of Greece as a collaborator of the Kremlin

EDOUARD GAUDOT While data signals that the peak of the refugee crisis is over, thanks mostly to shady deals with third countries and evolutions on the Syrian battlefields, EU governments continue to treat migration with heightened emotion and political grandstanding. The latest EU Council’s conclusions last month indicate Europe’s next step for integration will be […]