Commentators have been unanimous in describing Sunday’s legislative election in Austria as a victory for the far-right Freedom Party (FPO), and pressure is now mounting on the progressive president, Alexander van der Bellen, to give …
Articles by: "Maciej Kisilowski"
The extraordinary victory of the democratic opposition in Poland’s election raises the spectre of a looming constitutional crisis. Like Donald Trump in the United States or Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil, the right-wing populist Law and …
The horrific Russian attack on Ukraine should be a wake-up call for the elites of NATO’s Central European members and the rest of the alliance. Without excusing Russia’s aggression, we must admit that decades of …
Like the rise of Soviet communism and both World Wars, the Western liberal order’s apparent collapse in 2016 could turn out to be yet another historic upheaval that began in Eastern Europe. Hungarian Prime Minister …