Miha Kosovel: The cross-border city identity makes everyone involved a person with larger horizons and richer experience
The Bridge of Friendship, 21 June 2025 On 6 June 2025, the Slovenian intellectual Miha Kosovel gave a lecture at...
Central Europe
Right-Wing Duopoly about to End in Poland [interview]
In the first round of the presidential election, left-wing candidates collectively garnered around 10% of the vote, in the best...
Tusk, Nawrocki, and the Ballot: A New Crisis of Polish Democracy?
Poland’s 2025 presidential election ended with one of the narrowest results in the country’s post-communist history. Karol Nawrocki, backed by...
Polish Presidential Elections: End of a Liberal Dream That Never Was [Analysis]
From hooligan to president, collapse of the liberal coalition, death of the European dream, Trump’s new ally in Warsaw… These...
The Polish presidential elections in context
Vladimir Mitev, Malgorzata Kulbaczewska-Figat On the night of 1–2 June 2025, the Cross-border Talks team — Malgorzata Kulbaczewska-Figat and Vladimir...
The Left in Poland on Crossroads: Civil War as a Recipe for Success? [Analysis]
Despite chronic fragmentation, competing candidacies, and the absence of a unified strategy, the left in Poland achieved its best presidential...
Failing government, rising far right, and fragmentation of the Polish duopoly
The first round of the Polish presidential election offers more than just a snapshot of shifting political preferences — it...
Presidential elections in Poland: the extreme positions of the third candidate, Sławomir Menzen, radicalize the two leading candidates in the race
Interview with Malgorzata Kulbaczewska-Figat, co-founder of Cross-border Talks, on the Polish presidential elections and the intrigue surrounding them, related to...
2025 Presidential Elections in Poland: sharp polarization and rise of the far right
While the first exit polls suggest a victory of the ruling Civic Coalition candidate, his lead over the sovereignist opponent...
Just Transition: Mission Impossible? Chapter Two: Most, Czechia
When a visitor arrives in Most by train, he or she has the feeling that time has stood still here...
