The EU

Macron and Verhofstadt’s aim in raising the specter of Eastern European populists is to undermine their own populists at home.

Jenny Tsiropoulou on the European directive and the destruction of traditional wooden vessels.

Only in Europe’s post-communist east do populists routinely beat traditional parties in elections. Of 15 Eastern European countries, populist parties currently hold power in seven, belong to the ruling coalition in two more, and are the main opposition force in three.

The divide between the capitalist West and the communist East was alimentary as much as political. Over 25 years after the fall of communism in Europe, V4 leaders believe that in their countries citizens still buy second-rate food.

Henryk Wujec, a  Polish politician and historical member of the Polish labour union Solidarność, met the filming crew and researchers to give his point of view on the future of a country that he helped to construct in the 80s, and that will determine Europe’s future in the coming years.

Hundreds of desperate Chechen refugees are still stranded on the Belarusian border, waiting to enter the EU. Many locals are sceptical of the newcomers — but some have stood up to help.

“The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining” When it comes to the the reform of the euro zone, European leaders have long ignored these wise words. Another disastrous economic crisis could be just around the corner. With some economic stability returning to the old continent, we have the chance, and […]

If we were to travel back to Julius Caesar’s times and heard obligatio in solidum, we would know that it is time to pony up the money. Back then, the expression meant that individuals had an obligation to repay the debts of other family members in full. Uncles were responsible for the actions of their nieces, members of a […]

The European Union has been shaken by Brexit, Donald Trump’s election in the United States, and now political uncertainty in Germany. But the future of the EU is also being written in Poland, Hungary, Ukraine, and Russia, with profound implications for democratic institutions and regional security.

After the complete failure of leftist parties in last month’s Parliamentary elections, Czech journalist and co-founder of A2larm, Jan Bělíček, put forward an analysis of this defeat that draws interesting parallels with Poland. ‘One of the reason the Left lost’, he stated in an interview for the major Czech weekly political newsmagazine Respekt, ‘was that […]