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Czernowitz as a Cultural Palimpsest
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Clemena AntonovaIgor Pomerantsev
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The Anthropologists’ Problem with Barter
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Georgy GanevIvan Krastev
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Europe’s Futures Colloquium
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Ivan VejvodaOana Popescu-ZamfirWojciech Przybylski
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Series: Seminars and Colloquia
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How to Be a Climate Change Journalist in Ukraine and Why Environmental Storytelling Can Help Spread Important Ideas
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Ludger HagedornMariana Verbovska
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Gender Bias in Psychiatry: A Critical Examination
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Misha GlennyPrune Antoine
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Series: Seminars and Colloquia
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Judges Under Pressure
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Ivan VejvodaJudy Dempsey
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Series: Seminars and Colloquia
Two members of the European Union. Two members of NATO. They couldn't be more different.
Poland and Romania are undergoing transformations that could have a profound effect on the rule of law, particularly on the role of independent judges.
Romania has been consistently criticized by reformers, by human rights activists and by organizations trying to combat the rampant corruption for the weak rule of law and for the constant interference by the political elites in the judiciary.
Since 1989, the country's transformation has been long, complicated and delayed by vested interests and indeed the old guard. Its history and culture do play a role in delaying the transformation. But the past cannot be used as an excuse to postpone a long overdue institutionalization of the rule of law and make the judiciary genuinely independent.
As for Poland, it was supposed to be a kind of model for other countries making the transformation from communism to democracy. But since 2005, a year after Poland joined the European Union, Law and Justice, a nationalist, conservative party, has been doing everything possible to overturn the gains of the post-1989 period.
Its first stint in power was too short-lived for the party to achieve its goal: adapting the law to implement its agenda. But since 2015, it has chiseled away at the fundamental aspects of the rule of law and the independence of the judiciary.
There are a lot of "whys" with regard to what is happening in Poland and Romania. This will be the topic of my presentation on 4 November.
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Series: Seminars and Colloquia
Two members of the European Union. Two members of NATO. They couldn't be more different.
Poland and Romania are undergoing transformations that could have a profound effect on the rule of law, particularly on the role of independent judges.
Romania has been consistently criticized by reformers, by human rights activists and by organizations trying to combat the rampant corruption for the weak rule of law and for the constant interference by the political elites in the judiciary.
Since 1989, the country's transformation has been long, complicated and delayed by vested interests and indeed the old guard. Its history and culture do play a role in delaying the transformation. But the past cannot be used as an excuse to postpone a long overdue institutionalization of the rule of law and make the judiciary genuinely independent.
As for Poland, it was supposed to be a kind of model for other countries making the transformation from communism to democracy. But since 2005, a year after Poland joined the European Union, Law and Justice, a nationalist, conservative party, has been doing everything possible to overturn the gains of the post-1989 period.
Its first stint in power was too short-lived for the party to achieve its goal: adapting the law to implement its agenda. But since 2015, it has chiseled away at the fundamental aspects of the rule of law and the independence of the judiciary.
There are a lot of "whys" with regard to what is happening in Poland and Romania. This will be the topic of my presentation on 4 November.
Read more
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European Universities
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Christian RoglerJakub Jirsa
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Covid-19 and Holocaust Memory
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Ludger HagedornTobias Ebbrecht-Hartmann
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Series: Seminars and Colloquia
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What Did Russia Build Within—the Digital Gulag or the Cyberpunk?
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Andrei ZakharovClemena AntonovaKirill Rogov
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Series: Seminars and Colloquia
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Polish Politics of Memory and Poetics of Unlived Future
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Justyna TabaszewskaTimothy Snyder
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Series: Seminars and Colloquia
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