Foreign Minister Lubomir Zaoralek is justified in lamenting economic inequality and low pay, but his EU-bashing conveniently hides the fact that his own government has done little to address them.
Когда в страну приходят танки, они не останавливаются на главной площади - они катятся дальше, прямиком в спальни и будуары мирных граждан. Пражская весна смела утопические идеи о любви - поставив на место мечты смирение. English
A government-sponsored eugenics programme in Czechoslovakia sterilised Roma women without their knowledge; though the programme may be dead, the struggle for justice and recognition continues.
Central and eastern European hard right parties have more rapid success than their western counterparts, due to these countries’ subjection to the worst effects of neoliberalism and financialisation.
Far right organisations may be considered drivers of change in Central and Eastern Europe; their impact being felt through the deeds of their mainstream contenders.
Czexit? With President Milos Zeman calling for a referendum, it is becoming increasingly possible.
The situation in central and eastern Europe should serve as a warning against Brexit.
Czech President Milos Zeman recently labelled pro-Tibet protestors "mentally ill" during a visit of the Chinese President to the Czech Republic. What does this say about Zeman and Czech society?
The refugee crisis has triggered a diplomatic row between Greece and certain 'new' member-states from Central and Eastern Europe. What does this tell us?
What is the 'Prague Café', and why has it become the Czech President's insult of choice for his opponents?
"Leave everything valuable in your car or in a locker. They will try to steal it all," says the woman in charge of the well-being of refugees in the detention centre.
The hostile response of central and eastern European heads of states to the prospect of accepting Syrian refugees is emblematic of a wider problem of democracy and liberalism in these countries.
