CULTURE
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Balkan realities | Eurozine
When Jean-Claude Juncker became president of the European Commission in 2014, he declared that accession negotiations would continue over the…
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Emergency in Slovakia | Eurozine
‘Emergencies’ have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have eroded. F. Hayek The assassination attempt…
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Goetz on ageing | Eurozine
Does antisemitism have roots in Islam? In the 900th edition of Merkur, Manfred Sing looks at the historical evidence and…
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Bracing for a populist surge
In all three Baltic states, the ubiquitous gloom stemming from Russia’s ongoing threat has firmed up the view of the…
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Vertical occupation | Eurozine
Wars have many beginnings, but they refuse to end — history is merciless in giving this lesson to us again…
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The Moscow connection | Eurozine
Kaja Puto: Where does the German left’s sympathy for Russia come from? Reinhard Bingener: In Germany, we have four leftwing…
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Back to square one | Eurozine
When intellectuals and politicians start talking obsessively about their country’s great ‘originality’, ‘special path’ and a ‘unique mission in the…
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No longer a footnote | Eurozine
In the early days of March 2022, as Russian troops were approaching the outskirts of Kyiv, international media were focused…
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Tearing down Fortress Europe | Eurozine
Migration is one of today’s most powerful, and most entrenched, imaginaries. The word conjures up images of walls, borders, police,…
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Forerunners of the free market
In economic terms, state socialism is usually associated with the monopoly of an authoritarian state over core elements of the…
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