Central Europe

"The stories of a common glorified past are not a recent invention. Especially in times of historical change, they help to raise the international prestige of a state and strengthen existing [...]

In this personal mix of storytelling and poems, we are taken on the life journey of a couple of expats, traveling from one country to the next in search of adventure, sometimes out of necessity, [...]

Trump’s “America First” adherents have been looking for an international counterpart who can demonstrate that their nativist, inward-looking brand of governance is succeeding beyond American [...]

Katherine Leung review Slavoj Žižek's latest book Pandemic!: COVID-19 Shakes the World.

Elodie Phillips's interviews Piotrek Gawliński, who is behind the increasingly popular @lostfoundEurope Twitter account, inviting you to walk the streets of the golden era of Central European cities.

Nikol Tomar talks to Anna Jaskólska, a Polish national who works at an abortion clinic in Vienna. For the last three decades, thousands of Polish women have been travelling to Vienna to get a [...]

In recent years, Viktor Orbán has turned himself into China's chief advocate in the EU. Recently it has become more difficult to strike a political balance that can satisfy friends both at home [...]

Hélène Bienvenu on how the situation for Polish women seeking an abortion has become increasingly difficult due to restricted rights and the COVID-19 pandemic.

André Kapsas writes about a political party that now finds itself slowly drained of its blood by an alliance with populists. What will happen to the Czech Republic's Social Democratic party ahead [...]

Despite being legal in Hungary, hundreds of Hungarian women cross the Austrian border to get an abortion every year.