NGOs Are the Left in the East

Progressives – especially in the West and South – should recognise the unprecedented role and the historic transformation of NGOs in the East, accept the Eastern third sector as a political partner, and urgently form alliances with progressive parts of civil society in Central-Eastern Europe and the Balkans.

When the Mayor Turns the City into a Ghetto

In an unprecedented measure, the mayor of Czech town Kladno has lowered housing benefits for all inhabitatants of the town in an effort to drive the poor out of the city.