Jan Grabowski, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa In January 2018, the Polish parliament passed a law that imposed prison terms of up to three years of anyone who claimed Poles had any responsibility for or complicity [Read More]
Patrice Laroche, IAE Nancy School of Management In France, more than 1.2 million people (2.8 million, according to trade unions) took to the streets against proposed pension reform on Tuesday, exceeding crowds galvanised by the [Read More]
Increasingly, the mood in the UK is leaning towards repatriating the Parthenon Marbles. Justin Norris/Creative Commons Catharine Titi, Université Paris 2 Panthéon-Assas In the last few weeks, we have been regularly reminded that secret talks [Read More]
Dan Plesch, SOAS, University of London Vladimir Putin’s decision to pull out of the New Start nuclear weapons treaty with the United States will have predictable responses. Stocks in defence corporations will rise at the [Read More]
Mia-Marie Hammarlin, Lund University I was standing in a forest at night, by a dark lake taking part in a Mother Earth ritual. Shaman drums echoed between the cliffs. The witch leading the ritual suddenly [Read More]
Florent Parmentier, Sciences Po and Cyrille Bret, Sciences Po The frontline may be frozen but the battle rages on in Ukraine. In Bakhmut, a town which Moscow views as key to gain control of the [Read More]
Stefan Wolff, University of Birmingham Moldova has been sliding into yet another crisis following the resignation of its prime minister, Natalia Gavrilita, and fears that Russia was plotting a coup to overthrow the pro-western president, [Read More]
Romain Jolivet, École normale supérieure (ENS) – PSL and Laurent Jolivet, Sorbonne Université Earthquakes in Syria and Turkey are common, but the magnitude 7.8 that shook the region on 6 February at 4:17am local time [Read More]
Gabriel Doménech González, Universidad Carlos III On more than one occasion he declared that if he stopped working, he would die. And, indeed, death caught up with him at work. On Friday 10 February 2023, [Read More]
Anastasiya Shapochkina, Sciences Po On 19 October, European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen announced that the EU had replaced two-thirds of its Russian gas imports since February by switching to other suppliers. Such a [Read More]
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