Central Europe

On 22 October Poland’s Constitutional Tribunal voted through a proposal to further restrict an already strict law on abortion. The ruling to ban the abortion of severe and irreversibly impaired [...]

Czechs have voted in two elections in October – to the regional councils and to the Senate. While both elections are quite unpopular and voter turnout is consistently low, this year’s results of [...]

Mass protests in Poland are making headlines once again, this time due to further restrictions on abortion rights. It is nothing new, though. Arguably, one of the things Poland is most known for [...]

Raz Segal’s Genocide in the Carpathians: War, Social Breakdown, and Mass Violence 1914-1945 draws light to an under-researched tragedy and contextualizes the violence committed in Europe against [...]

Václav Marhoul’s The Painted Bird is not an easy watch. From the very first scene – where a pet mink is burnt alive – the young, Jewish protagonist (Petr Kotlár) is faced with [...]

After tightening its control of the judiciary, media and civil society organisations, the Hungarian government found its new enemy: the arts and education sector. SZFE, or the University of [...]

Nikol Tomar recounts how Poland's "homophobuses" has met with resistance from a famous Youtuber.

Until not long ago, a small goblin lived in the green grass on the banks of the Oder River. He was known as the Oder Goblin. He entertained himself by playing pranks on the citizens of Wrocław, [...]

Louis Train reviews Pravda Ha Ha by Rory MacLean: "an interesting travelogue and a badly under-researched political text".

In April of 2019, a group of 22 young men and women gathered at the Hofburg Palace in Vienna, Austria to rethink and rewrite the meaning of international security. The assembly was the first in a [...]