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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Elections in Croatia: Conservatives retain the parliamentary majority
By contrast to Serbia and the overwhelming predominance of SNS, though, the composition of Croatia’s Sabor is...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?EU solidarity in the time of coronavirus
Many of the region’s politicians are now beginning to wonder out loud – and often opportunistically – just what the...
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Published in: 50.50Croatian MPs from nine political parties call for inquiry into ‘crisis pregnancy centres’
Lawmakers in Zagreb are the latest to call for action following openDemocracy’s special investigation into...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Harnessing ‘the right within’ in Croatia and Greece
How ‘right-wing factions’ enable governing parties to draw support from the more socially conservative layers of...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Closing the Vučjak Camp doesn’t resolve the humanitarian crisis for migrants in Bosnia
“Neither the European Union nor the central government has lifted a finger.”
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Croatia’s violent pushbacks of refugees and asylum-seekers
As the Croatian president confirms pushbacks, the European Commission turns a blind eye.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?’It is also the economy, stupid!’ The rise of economic euroscepticism in Central and Eastern Europe
Along comparable lines to Croatia, Latvia’s economy has not fully recovered from the recession of 2009-2011.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Contrasting euroscepticisms in Croatia and Serbia
What are the implications for Serbia from Croatia’s experience throughout the course of its EU-membership?
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The violent reality of the EU border: police brutality in the Balkans
Those prepared to make a stand against Croatian border violence in the EU parliament are in the minority, with the...
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Published in: 50.50How women in the Balkans are using social media to fight sexism
Women are primary targets of bias and online harassment in the Balkans. Now, a growing number are using the internet...
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Published in: HomeLet’s not ‘politicise’: let’s skill
"We are very aware, when it comes to the whole Greek experience, that one of the problems the political left faces...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?A mass for a fascist: a troubling history haunts modern Croatia
Far-right ideologies grow ever more comfortable in the Croatian mainstream, encouraged by a lack of serious...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Why Catalonia is not the Balkans
An analysis of where the Spain/Yugoslavia comparison succeeds, and where it fails.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Competing conservatisms in Serbia and Croatia
Nationalist conservatives are dominating the political scenes in Serbia and Croatia, but how do they compare and...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The five 'infections' of the social democratic 'family' in the Western Balkans
Social democracy is failing all across Europe; but it's impotence in the Balkans especially is having serious...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Yugoslavia, international tribunals and the politics of reconciliation
A conversation about the politics of truth and reconciliation in light of the ICTY's acquittal of Vojislav Seselj.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Democracy, 25 years after Yugoslavia
Just how democratic are the former Yugoslav countries today?
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The insufferable ease of nationalism in the Balkans
The recent Serbia-Albania football match was like a microcosm of the twenty-first century Balkans: lots of intense,...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Ana's story: fighting for disability rights in Croatia
In September, Croatia, adopted a new Family Act that calls for courts to review decisions taking away someone’s...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?"Blood cell counting": the Croatian refugee crisis
Croatia is the latest Balkan country to find itself hit by the wave of refugees trying to reach western Europe. What...