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On 21 October, leaders from across the EU gathered in Brussels for what would be the final farewell ceremony to Germany’s departing chancellor, Angela Merkel. With warm tributes to her leadership [...]

"Armchair historians rejoice. Poland 1939: The Outbreak of World War II by Roger Moorhouse is the book you didn’t know you were waiting for." Book review by Katherine Leung.

"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, [...]

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 [...]

Should celebrities who spread fake news and conspiracy theories about the Coronavirus be held accountable? Opinion piece by Nikol Tomar.

The first and only novel of Andrzej Bursa, Killing Auntie tells the absurd story of a character who is all too familiar to a young reader (until the parricide) – he is at the encore of [...]

January editorial. Saying that 2020 was challenging would be an understatement. In Central Europe, it was no different. Looking at the past year, apart from the Covid-19 outbreak, we have seen [...]

January editorial. From Law and Justice (PiS) in Poland, EKRE in Estonia, and Fidesz in Hungary, to Vladimir Putin’s United Russia Party, recent months have seen the political right returning to [...]

One of my favourite things about the upcoming holidays is the amount of time I can spend on reading. Every year, I find at least one book under the Christmas tree and usually, I finish it before [...]