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The hunt for the person or people who ordered the murder of investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia in Malta last October appears to be making little...

The feeling that we are being watched by a wild animal can lead to shock. Suddenly we comprehend how immense the world is, and how overwhelmingly lonely we...

Czas Kultury discusses digital bodies and messianic anti-liberalism.

For Vladimir Putin, the West's tolerance is weakness and dialogue is failure to impose force. Because KGB-styled Russia believes that either you devour, or you...

Controversies over Muslims refusing to shake hands with non-Muslims are typical of the conflicts affecting today's multi-religious societies. Appeals to the...

How can contemporary social theories be used to describe our dimensions of human existence? Bauman talks in this interview about the blurred distinctions...

Historian Aleksander Babich, a Russian-speaking Ukrainian, responds to Russia's military intervention in Ukraine in this Facebook status update of 1 March...

In the 1970s and early 1980s, a movement of Russian nationalists attempted to reshape the USSR in a Russian-patriotic spirit. Alexander Mikhailovsky considers...

Central European responses to the euro crisis have been marked by a total absence of regional solidarity, writes Jacques Rupnik. Differing national situations...

An outburst of syphillis is sweeping across Europe, and new HIV infections are also steadily rising. And yet, the public discourse seems to view sexually...

In Germany, scientific and professional bodies acting on behalf of the state have traditionally mediated between the academic and professional sectors in order...

One of the highlights of Hungary's EU presidency was the launching of the EU Framework for National Roma Integration Strategies. But a closer look at the...

Popular anthropology has recently questioned assumptions about the role of farming in the emergence of the bureaucratic state and the inevitable connection...

Writer and journalist George Blecher's first European meeting of Cultural journals was in Berlin in 1989. He has been coming back ever since - despite his...

What started thirty-five years ago as an informal meeting of European editors became the basis for Eurozine, founded in 1998 as an online cultural journal and...

Zimbabwean poet, novelist, and journalist Chenjerai Hove left Zimbabwe after falling foul of the Mugabe government. Here he recalls two incidents typical of...

Disinformation and audience fragmentation pose major questions for the future of the public sphere. Media literacy is increasingly being seen as one response....

Paedophilia in the French Catholic Church exceeded the worst expectations. Deep-seated conservatism is resisting recommended reforms.

Insufficient housing, a pressing socio-political issue: the German right blames migration and proposes exclusive free-market solutions

This decade brought us revolutions, crises and strong backlashes too. And even though it is easy for authoritarians to prey on societies in turmoil, the...

"Sometimes we forget that maybe we need to ask more questions about the situation we are getting into. Then we have the right to say no." In 1999, forensic...

Faced with public funding cuts, the editors of "Esprit" write an open letter defending the role of generalist cultural journals. When the academic world can...

The Anthropocene is a fashionable research topic these days, and the imminent climate crisis seems to have finally started to shake the conscience of people...

While book publishing is an ailing industry, children's books are booming. But political attacks and censorship are also threatening this thriving sector.

The joker, the trickster and the prankster: Volodymyr Zelensky, Boris Johnson and Donald Trump

Nowhere is the politics of history more vexed than in the conflict over the use of the name "Macedonia". Valentina Mironska-Hristovska presents the Macedonian...

The fascination of a borderless world has rapidly worn off in an age of accelerating mobility, writes Ivaylo Ditchev. As forms of mobility become increasingly...

The radical rightwing party Svoboda rose to prominence in Ukraine's 2012 parliamentary elections as an alternative to the political establishment, writes Anton...

Gaby Zipfel, editor of "Mittelweg 36" and pioneer of Eurozine, came to the European Meeting of European Cultural Journals in 1992 expecting to be the only...

State control of the Turkish media is exercised through subordinate and heavily concentrated ownership structures. With barely room left for independent...

Can expanding our definition of intelligence improve our relationship with the more-than-human world?

The Bronze Soldier controversy in Tallinn in April 2007 encouraged the view that there is an integration problem among the Russian-speaking minority in...

How Mahmoud Darwish relates to the Arab enlightenment and the post-Arab Spring world by offering Palestinian liberation as a way of redeeming all humanity.

A dramatic decline of advertising revenue has forced Austrian journal Wespennest to scale down from four issues to two issues a year. While commitment to the...

The rapid expansion of the student protests across the German-speaking space was largely a result of Web 2.0 and the different networking possibilities it...

Hazardous chemicals are often mismanaged which can lead to infrastructural and environmental disasters, says Gergely Simon.

Surrounding the anniversary of the end of WWII were arguments that national experiences are suffocated by the dominant discourse of the West. By implication,...

In subtropical areas, the walls of buildings have always had the crucial function of protecting against heat. A look at traditional building typologies in...

Corporatization is transforming what activists and NGOs conceive of as being realistic and possible in terms of desirable change. Genevieve LeBaron and Peter...

Der Siegeszug der NGOs (Nicht-Regierungs-Organisationen) in den letzten Jahren hat neue, grundlegende Probleme mit sich gebracht; darunter am dringlichsten das...

The works of Somalian-born activist and writer Ayaan Hirsi Ali show that the civilizational jump is incompatible with clan ethics, writes Oksana Forostyna of...

First a pro-EU revolution, now war with Russophile separatists and economic crisis, both ongoing: but what's next for Ukraine? Sophia Christoforidou of the...

The war in Ukraine is said to be the most documented war in history. But can Ukrainians ever convey their true experiences to outsiders? And can outsiders ever...

The global debate on how to handle sovereign debt shows that predatory behaviour has become an issue for countries around the world. And in the acute situation...

Both parties in the debate surrounding France's ban on wearing a full-face veil in public appeal to European values. It is this, writes Ivan Krastev, that...

Anthropological studies conducted during the Russian empire categorized Estonians as Asiatic. But with the rise of nationalism, colonialism and eugenics,...

Brexiters claim that the Northern Ireland question is exaggerated by the EU to keep the UK in its orbit. But, as the murder of journalist Lyra McKee showed,...

Victory in the "Great Patriotic War" is the most potent symbol of identification in present-day Russia, and the sole prop for national self-belief. Victory...

If technology is the new governance, then the tech giants are the governors, operating without a democratic mandate. Europe must take the lead in pioneering a...

Russian propaganda co-opts western grassroots criticism of liberalism and globalization, recasting both left and right populism in nationalist terms. Vice...

What next for Britain and the EU? Though the Brexit Party will now be one of the largest national parties in the European Parliament, combined support for the...

An art exhibition conjures up the silent spectre of the Holocaust in Hungary to explore apparently incompatible recollections, confront contradictory...

Legendary Georgian philosopher Merab Mamardashvili (1930-1990) was once ironically referred to by the Cheka as "the freest man in the country". But...

Boaventura de Sousa Santos sees two different kinds of globalization that now have to enter into a dialouge. As counter-hegemonic globalization grows, the...

If the collective sacrifice during the Second World War cemented Russian identity in the absence of consensus, then the attack on Ukraine does the same but to...

Ukrainian journalist and politician Andriy Shevchenko met Belgian author David Van Reybrouck in Lviv to discuss the re-nationalization of political life in...

Violence is a relationship, not a "thing"; nor does it submit to typologies. Nevertheless, that does not mean that violence cannot be studied and its...

Russian speakers in Ukraine are part of the "Russian World", Vladimir Putin repeatedly claims; which is how he legitimizes Russia's intervention in the...

Bankruptcy in nineteenth-century parables of capitalism; billionaires, bankruptcy and the American obsession with money; and why the refusal to accept the end...

The Austrian journal on the transformation of the bourgeoisie: discourse, normativity and social-economic change; the privatization of the patriarchy; Romanian...

Pessimists fear that the Trump phenomenon has not so much derailed American democracy as revealed long-standing problems in the system itself. But if the...

For Adam Michnik, resistance to communism took many forms: reproaching another for their lack of heroism is impossible. Talking to Andrei Plesu in Bucharest in...

Commons are a form of resistance against self-exploitation, isolation and the reduction of people to consumers, writes Brigitte Kratzwald. But this resistance...

"Every day of crisis is a day of learning, a window of opportunity, but this window will get smaller and smaller unless rapid and fundamental changes take...

EU member-states are rejecting integration just when national sovereignty worldwide is entering a new period of relativity. National governments blame Europe...

Poetry has lost the symbolic power needed to address shared values, writes Francesco Stella, having ceded this to other media such as pop music. On "the...

The story of the German-Turkish couple behind the Pfizer/BioNtech COVID-19 vaccine confirms that, in Germany, social origin still determines education,...

This year's Eurozine conference is taking place online. Those suffering from Zoom fatigue need not worry: we will be providing our followers with a combination...

Russia has no national interests, not even in Ukraine. Russians are denied subjectivity, the means of making rational and responsible decisions. Instead, they...

Shopping malls simulate the buzz of city centres and create an atmosphere appropriate for consuming. Everything is planned in advance and controlled;...

The case for more embodied communication; on digitalisation and the privatisation of art; a balanced view of gaming; the historical roots of social...

This was no regular presidential election, it was a referendum on basic commitment to democratic values and an open society. Jacques Rupnik takes a look at...

Syria, Ukraine, Nagorno-Karabakh and now Gaza: connecting all recent wars is disregard for national sovereignty as recognised by international law. Confident...

History is replete with examples of how the political logic of disintegration sets in. But is the European Union next in line? You can be sure that it is,...

No translator can translate equally well. A lot gets lost in translation. Some languages don't translate well. These are just some of the translator's dirty...

Ukrainian artists are struggling to invent a new language to express their experience of war, one that goes beyond tropes and commonplaces.

In the dominant liberal discourse on citizenship, learning processes have tended to be reduced to citizenship classes and formal membership of the polity. In...

Can we use the f-word of history? Why understanding precisely what one is opposing will help dissent; how the trauma of WWII helped blur the European colonial...

For the Bosnian Omer Hadziselimovic, being an immigrant in the US is to experience both regression and rejuvenation. Constantly translating between his old and...

Christopher Ricks, professor of humanities at Boston University and professor of poetry at Oxford University, is famous for his close readings of Milton,...

Are robots replacing us? For translators, this prospect is quite realistic. Though machine translation can be useful with simple and direct text, it still has...

The fact that Slavenka Drakulic has agitated the local public, proves only that the conspiracy of silence is widely accepted, writes translator and essayist...

Brussels is not empowered to be a policeman for liberal democracy in Europe. Not yet. But should it be? Following recent developments in Hungary and Romania,...

Harsh measures imposed on Cypriot political and financial authorities to address bank failures reveal, once again, that the entire architecture of the EU is in...

Overt euroscepticism pervades the political climate in Italy but is hardly anywhere to be found in Latvia. Meanwhile, low turnout in the Czech Republic may...

In Germany there has been heavy public criticism of the NSA. Yet the German government has failed to investigate the affair and has been quick to demand...

Advocates of bitcoin typically claim two things: that by introducing certainty into the monetary system, it overcomes the problem of trust and its failure; and...

Under the current Polish government, the traditional coalmining industry in Silesia is being phased out, adding to the mass unemployment caused by commercial...

It is not the case that the move towards populism has spoiled democratic hopes in central and eastern Europe. The hope was part of the problem from the...

How to engage young people in European politics?

How do tourists experience life in places that they make unliveable? Discussing overtourism on this episode of the Standard Time talk show with a Mallorcan...

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