The Parade: Independence Day march in Warsaw, 2019
November 11th marked the 101th anniversary of the restoration of Polish sovereignty from the German, Austro-Hungarian and Russian Empires. The most famous event of the day is the Independence [...]
🇵🇱 Poland Monthly Digest: Polish Academia Against Climate Change, and the ECJ Returns a Verdict
– On June 5th, a district court in Warsaw launched anti-censorship proceedings against Facebook. The case was issued by Maciej Świrski, chairman of the Polish League Against Defamation [...]
🇵🇱 Poland Monthly Digest: teachers strike, and Supreme Court reforms draw warnings
– 30 years ago, on April 5th, 1989 round table negotiations ended in Poland with the signing of an agreement between the communists and representatives of the democratic opposition and Catholic [...]
When will the grip loosen? Centralized government in North Macedonia
When the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, now the Republic of North Macedonia, declared independence in 1991, a new state emerged but kept many of the habits of its communist past, [...]
🇵🇱 Poland Monthly Digest: NATO anniversary, and LGBT+ rights controversy
– On March 3rd, hundreds of protesters gathered in Gdynia, Katowice, Łódź, Warsaw, and Wrocław in support of women’s rights such as equal pay and the right to an abortion. Protesters displayed [...]
