Als das sklerotische politische und wirtschaftliche System der Deutschen Demokratischen Republik (DDR) im November 1989 nach dem Fall der Berliner Mauer zusammenbrach, führte die Umstellung der Wirtschaft auf das marktwirtschaftliche System der Bundesrepublik Deutschland zu beispiellosen Verwerfungen auf allen Ebenen...
Two billion euros! This may be the cost of the series of climatic disasters that hit the country between mid-July and mid-September, as estimated by Moschos Korasidis, managing director of the National Union of Agricultural Cooperatives of Greece. Giorgos Stratakos,...
En la actualidad se calcula que hay más de 3.500 millones de personas en el mundo que viven en regiones donde escasea el agua. Se prevé que esta cifra aumente a 5.000 millones de aquí al año 2050, dado que...
1. Today, to talk about the future of Russia is like talking about life after death. Russia is in the midst of catastrophe, and horror grips us when we think of what Russia has already done, or what our compatriots...
Alexei Navalny is being mourned as Russia’s most daring, sophisticated and Western-looking politician. Yet Navalny’s political struggle with tyranny, which ended in an Arctic penal colony in what looks like state-sponsored murder, makes his ‘life and fate’ very Russian –...
In May 2023, we published an essay in De Nederlandse Boekengids/The Dutch Review of Books about the responsibility of Europe and European institutions towards the situation in Israel and Palestine. This was a few months after the last Netanyahu cabinet...
How can we learn to live next to violent deaths, mass graves, and knowledge of rape and torture? When looking for an answer to this question, before Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine yet after its occupation of Crimea and war...
If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – forever. George Orwell Are there any movements currently in power in Europe, or on their way to power, that can be called fascist?...
In 1827, while walking in the Sparrow Hills above Moscow, the poet Nikolay Ogarev (1813–1877) and the writer and philosopher Alexander Herzen (1812–1870) made an oath to one another that they would dedicate their lives to the struggle for freedom...
“The year 1983 was crucial in many ways…” Walter Famler describes the geopolitical landscape in which the beginnings of a common publishing project emerged. From the Cold War division of Europe arose a need to reach out and share...
