Poland

Faced with increasing vulnerabilities, Eastern European states are trying to bring their citizens back from abroad. 

Amid stubbornly low birth rates, Polish women are bearing the brunt of public pressure for the country’s population panic.

As our emotions are triggered and compromised in a changing world, what are the indications for our freedom?

What is the political power of emotions in the battle over freedom?

Eastern Europe can be the incubator of a new climate activism, Dominika Lasota tells Maxine Betteridge-Moes.

Once a symbol of coexistence between nature and humans, the Bug River is now a political battlefield, flanked by heavy barriers and fallen trees.

Mapping the far-right rise in three of Europe’s biggest countries.

Unionisation, cooperation among independent media, and the push for full independence is strengthening journalism in Europe.

Amid pressure to phase out coal, workers, mining unions, and locals in Poland’s Silesia are demanding a socially and economically just transition.

Poland’s new governing coalition is making good on its pledges, but side-lining the president has exposed it to accusations of undemocratic action.