Blogs

Blog: School-to-work transition: Contextualizing fieldwork in Hungary's Southern-Transdanubia

By Abel Beremenyi

NGOST project aims to understand how school-to-work transition (STWT) occurs among the Roma young people, critically examining related policies and programmes and institutions targeting and/or reaching out to Roma youth.

Blog: Germany: Is banning far-right groups enough?

By Michael Zeller

This article was originally published on OpenDemocracy here on Feb 17, 2020.

Blog: Historians and regional policy-making: The perspective of a political scientist

November 22, 2019

By Sara Svensson

History matters for current politics. In this time of populism and nationalism, we see how national leaders utilize and sometimes rewrite history for political ends: Poland protests when a Netflix documentary places concentration camp locations on a map of today’s Poland.

Blog: Whither Poland? After the 2019 parliamentary elections

By Michael Zeller

This article was originally published on OpenDemocracy here on Oct 27, 2019.

The 2020 Presidential election will be the first indicator of how the Polish electorate is responding to the work of the second PiS government.

Blog: Did the Hungarian local elections break polarisation and extremism?

By Zsuzsanna Vidra

This article was originally published on OpenDemocracy here on Oct 27, 2019.

Hungary’s recent elections mark a breakthrough: the paralysing myth of Fidesz’s invincibility has been shattered.