Political Critique Archive

Political Critique’s weekly selection from the Eastern European press.

“We want education, not lies”. Around four hundred people gathered in front of the Ministry of National Education in Warsaw. But even that couldn’t stop the government from passing the education bill.

An EU27 that doesn’t focus on more equality, more opportunities and more solidarity for its citizens, is an EU that risks repeating the same mistakes again that led to a decade of austerity and a vote to leave by one of its Member States. The Commission needs to understand this if it is to play the leading role that Juncker envisions.

What if your life is so bad that low quality new synthetic drugs are the best part of it?

With less than ten days to go before the German federal elections, the “Schulz train,” a popular meme from the beginning of the election campaign, has long since halted and the Social Democrats are now far behind the Christian Democrats in the polls.

Katrin Nenasheva was detained five times over the last two years — in particular for her anti-war protests.

Political Critique’s weekly selection from the Eastern European press.

Mikheil Saakashvili and his supporters marched through the Polish-Ukrainian border.

Recent acts of dissent within Moria have met with harsh police violence, and few positive outcomes. So the Afghan protesters left the camp, thrusting the continued struggle of detained refugees into the laps of the cocktail-sipping yacht-owners around the harbour. Facing down threats of eviction and arrest, and violent abuse from an off-duty Moria guard, […]

According to the Hungarian government, the battle has only just begun; the EU Court of Justice has ruled against Hungary in the question of the refugee quota system