This year Political Critique relaunched as a fully pan-European magazine. While maintaining our focus on Central and Eastern Europe, we …
New Puppet, Same Puppet Master in Poland
The choice of Mateusz Morawiecki to lead Poland’s Law and Justice (PiS) government is widely believed to reflect the PiS’s desire to endear itself to investors and the European Union. In fact, Morawiecki, like his predecessor, was chosen for a very different reason: to facilitate PiS leader Jarosław Kaczyński’s consolidation of power.
Attempt to arrest Mikheil Saakashvili
Ukrainian Security Service officers attempt to arrest the former President of Georgia and head of the Odessa Regional Administration Mikheil Saakashvili in Kiyv on December 5.
Death by disdain: the fate of drug users in Russian-occupied territories
With replacement therapy now illegal, drug users in Russian-occupied Crimea and the self-proclaimed republics of the Donbas are finding it hard to survive.
I just know that I’m a good candidate – they got nothing on me
Dawid Krawczyk flew to the places where 80% of people voted Trump. I wanted to meet those involved in his presidential campaign in the Deep South. Is Trump’s United States really the country of their dreams? In the fourth chapter John Salvesen tells how he was inspired by Trump to become a politician.
Downgrading European Citizenship?
Even before the referendum took place, one of the great risks of the UK changing its relationship with the EU …
The backup plan: Poles prepare for post-coal life despite government
The European Union has made efforts in the last decade to adopt ambitious climate and energy policies, but at every turn, Poland has positioned itself as the ‘bad boy’ of the bloc by repeatedly resisting agreements.