by Kaan Basar Tezel | May 9, 2020 | Koç University
In June 2018, an important agreement was reached between Macedonia and Greece, solving the legal name dispute between the two neighbors. As a consequence of the agreement, Macedonia acknowledged altering its official name as North Macedonia, while Greece promised to...
by Marina Berardino | Feb 12, 2020 | Boston University
After the fall of communism in 1989, Poland elected its first non-Communist prime minister since the early post-war years. However, some politicians still seemed to have communist ties. To counter this, Jarosław Kaczyński started a far right movement united in the Law...
by Steven Rubin | Feb 12, 2020 | Boston University
An attack on the freedom of the press and can easily be seen as an attack on democracy. Of the many key features of truly democratic countries, freedom of the press is often viewed as essential. In the United States, freedom of the press is protected by the First...
by Francesca Ofilada | Nov 25, 2019 | University of the Philippines, Diliman
Source: Rzeczpospolita The Law and Justice Party in Poland is taking both Law and Justice into its own hands. After winning a Parliamentary majority in 2015, the PiS seized control of the Polish Supreme Court by passing legal amendments to the constitution (1). Having...
by Thomas McLees | Jun 1, 2019 | University of Chicago
On May 26th polls for the European Union’s ninth parliamentary elections closed all over Europe. As votes were counted and results were posted, it became more and more apparent that there was a major shift happening in continental European politics. Many saw this as a...
