What anti-corruption in Romania desperately needs is politicians able to change the rules of the game.

Citizens of developed societies have always regarded themselves as the winners of globalization. But this is not true—the capitalist revolution is devouring its own children.

Anyone in Europe who believed, or at least hoped, that the conflict with Russia would be toned down or even resolved in the near future, will have to accept an uncomfortable truth now, almost a year since the annexation of Crimea. In all probability, the conflict is here to stay. That means that in the…

The European Union differs from the post-Soviet space not only because it professes a policy of deep integration and the creation of a common economic and social space. European countries are becoming de facto federations, while in post-Soviet space one may witness all signs of imperial revival.

For parts of the European political and intellectual elite, a non-democratic Russia will always represent an existential threat: an archetypal enemy bent on exploiting the weaknesses of open societies.

An Interview with Zakhar Prilepin by Filip MemchesIf Europeanism is preserved anywhere, it will be in Russia—says the Russian writer and National Bolshevik Party activist Zakhar Prilepin in conversation with Filip Memches.

Three key words should define our policy towards Russia, if we want to act responsibly: firmness, clarity and lucidity.

We do not know for sure what Mr. Putin’s ultimate ambition is. But he has certainly found allies in Hungary, Belarus, Czech Republic and, latterly, Greece.

Liberal democracy is under threat from two sides simultaneously. And it is far from obvious that the ideas which justify it are in good working order or that its defenders are doing the best they can to make it attractive.

After the collapse of the Soviet Union the Chinese communists, who had been taught in schools and party courses in the 1950s that “the Soviet Union today is our tomorrow,” realized that their fate also may have been sealed. Concerned about the future and the power of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), Deng Xiaoping, the…

An interview with Shirin Ebadi by Maciej NowickiThe West should connect the problem of the Iranian nuclear program with human rights issues. You need to talk about them at the same time, in the same place—says Shirin Ebadi, the first Muslim Nobel Peace Prize laureate, in an interview with Maciej Nowicki.

The pro-Russian attitude of the Czech and Slovak Left: a betrayal of identity?

Why are many of the ideas usually associated with the right in the nineteenth century—fear of progress, of science, of modernity and of collective action—today closely linked with the outlook of left-wing thinkers?

From the European perspective, it is a pity in a way that the Left Party somehow deadlocks the left party spectrum in Germany and keeps the German left forces away from coming back to government power united.

Alexis Tsipras dared to read the crisis as an opportunity to beat the two-party system.

The decline of support for the mainstream parties both left and right is the dominant trend in European politics. It’s hard to judge whether the majority of Europeans is shifting to the left or to the right, but what is obvious is that almost nobody is left in the center.

Podemos seeks to transcend traditional divisions between left and right and to reframe politics as a struggle between the people and the elite.

The plot of Vladimir Sorokin’s latest novel, The Blizzard, can be summed up in three sentences. Physician with a Bunin-like name Platon Ilyich Garin travels to a village where an epidemic broke out, carrying a vaccine. Days go by and he is unable to reach his destination: one day he breaks a sleigh runner, another…