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After years of blocking eurozone reforms at every turn, German Chancellor Angela Merkel has suddenly come out in favor of a common budget. But the reason is not that she has seen the economic light…

„Pod Save Austria” Addresses on the State of the Nation(s) In dependence of the French intellectual Julien Benda, who had imagined a speech to the European nation from within the uprising fascism, Ulrike Guérot addresses european citizens today with an appeal to complement the one market and the one currency by one common european Democracy. […]

Hungary voted the bill that introduces a new category of crime: illicit assistance for immigration. Is helping asylum-seekers illegal now? Read the interview with Szilárd István Pap.

On World Refugee Day, we value the strength, courage and perseverance of millions of refugees that are forced to flee their homes. Now is the time to show our solidarity. Today we share five inspiring stories to read (and watch) related to borders, refugees and migration that Political Critique has published this year.  1. Talk […]

JUDITH SUNDERLAND After almost three months of jumping up and down in place, the newly invested Italian interior minister, Matteo Salvini, has hit the ground running in the worst possible direction. The head of the anti-immigrant party, the League, Salvini has positioned himself as the strongman in the unlikely coalition government recently formed with the […]

*The following is an edited transcript of an interview conducted for European Alternatives’ forthcoming documentary, Demos: Solidarity in Europe.  European Alternatives: Tell us how the Kiev Biennial originated, and about the work of the Visual Culture Research Centre. Why did you start working on these projects? Vasyl Cherepanyn: We started nine years ago inside the University. […]

*The following is an edited transcript of an interview conducted for European Alternatives’ forthcoming documentary, Demos: Solidarity in Europe.  European Alternatives: Tell us a bit about your work in Sail for Children. What exactly is it that you do? Sail for Children:  Here at Sail for Children we restore boats seized from the mafia and […]

*The following is an edited transcript of an interview conducted for European Alternatives’ forthcoming documentary, Demos: Solidarity in Europe.  European Alternatives: What is Another Europe is Possible? Who are you? And how did you get started? Zoe Gardner: Another Europe is Possible began when we saw that the ‘remain’ campaign ahead of the UK’s EU […]

*The following is an edited transcript of an interview conducted for European Alternatives’ forthcoming documentary, Demos: Solidarity in Europe.  Tell us about the origins of Baobab experience. How long have you been operating? And what does the name mean? Baobab experience: The Baobab experience started in Spring 2015 and it’s probably the biggest experience of civil […]

In the anti-immigrant narrative, immigration itself is not the key problem. Hungary is a good case in point.