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Civil Society

How radical movements are reshaping Central Europe

Ordo Iuris

Ordo Iuris collected 150,000 signatures on the "convention on the rights of the family". Pictured Jerzy Kwasniewski. Source: Andrzej Hulimka / Forum

We follow the meanderings of a long campaign to roll back women’s rights and overturn the Istanbul Convention.

VSquare

07.05.2021

Hungarian gov’t money, US advisor with Republican ties behind propaganda news site

media, propaganda, USA

The website Remix provides news in English on Central Europe, with a soft spin much alike Viktor Orbán’s agenda.

VSquare

23.10.2020

How populists remake Poland

EU, LGBT

Equality Parade 2018 | Photo: Lan Pham/Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0)

Liberals think that facts are persuasion. They are not – says Professor Anna Grzymala-Busse from Stanford University

Anna Gielewska

25.08.2020

The Belarusian August

Belarus, protest, Vladimir Putin

Rally in support of Sviatlana Tsikhanoŭskaya and the joint campaign headquarters. 30 July 2020, Minsk, Belarus || By Homoatrox - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons

The week of protests has shown that the situation is completely different than the well-known crises of the past: the revolution of Solidarity in Poland, the Arab Spring, the Ukrainian Maidan.

VSquare

15.08.2020

Independent, non-governmental watchdogs are always treated as an enemy by illiberal states and wannabe dictators. Viktor Orban’s Hungary is a classic example, but know a similar danger is growing in Poland.

Konrad Szczygieł

30.07.2020

Stronger than evil

democracy, Jan Kuciak, journalism, media, Slovakia

Photo by Peter Tkac | Demonstration in Bratislava, March 2nd 2018 | Flickr | CC BY-SA 2.0

This murder has opened many issues not taken care of for a long time. We should never forget Jan Kuciak’s death. It’s a tragic mark in the history of Slovakia. But it has a potential to change something in the country.