Political Critique Archive

Last weekend, the annual Gay Pride Parade took place in Warsaw and Kiev. Both events were peaceful and largely without incidents. Photoreports by Marta Modzelewska and Paweł Pieniążek.

TV Prima’s manipulation of news coverage concerning refugees clearly breaches journalistic standards. But neither the Czech broadcasting authorities nor the station’s Swedish owners are willing to address the issue.

Despite being recognized as a nation, the Romani community in Macedonia continues to be socially excluded.

The increase in nationalism across Europe may eventually help to establish popular movements leading to the emergence of an opposition that will be able to act rather than react to the idea of a European programme.

On 3 June 2016, the council of the city of Gdansk announced that the city had bought a building in the former Gdansk shipyard, which had until now been home to the Instytut Sztuki Wyspa (Wyspa Institute of Art – ISW). The ISW now has to leave the building.

The Belarusian ‘parasite law’ hinders the development of independent artistic communities and gives the state additional means to control them

Or will it?

Sociologist Maciej Gdula discusses the prospects of the ruling and Law and Justice party as well as the opposition movement.

On Wednesday, 1 June, around 40 000 people gathered in the main square in Zagreb and demonstrated against the interventions of the new national conservative government in a proposed educational reform. Photoreport by Karlo Mijić.

For some reason, the Prime Minister of the Slovak Republic, Robert Fico, has returned to his pre-election campaign rhetoric and once again entered into open conflict with the Muslim community in Slovakia.