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Reporting Democracy

Reporting Democracy is a cross-border journalistic platform dedicated to exploring where democracy is headed across large parts of Europe. Independent journalists research and question the topics, trends and events that are shaping the future of democracy in Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe. Reporting Democracy publishes reports, interviews and analyses by correspondents from 14 countries. The platform is run by the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network, a non-profit network promoting free speech, human rights and democratic values in Southern and Eastern Europe and beyond. Reporting Democarcy is supported by ERSTE Foundation.

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Facts

Czech Demography: Westward Ahoy!

Why Czechia is bucking the trends of all of the rest of former Communist Europe knows Tim Judah.
Democracy
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Feature

Critical mass

Inside the polish far-right’s ‘trad Cath’ revival
Democracy
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Facts

Slovakia is getting old fast.

Slovakia is not the only European country whose officials are struggling to work out how many people actually live there. Tim Judah took a closer look at the country's peculiarities.
Democracy
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Feature

Neither in nor out

The paradox of Poland's "LGBT-free zones"
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Democracy

Greece’s ticking demographic time bomb

Greece's demographic characteristics portray similarities with both, Western European countries and those in the Balkans.
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Culture

The show goes on

In Hungary, theatre and concerts move to digital realm.
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Environment

Poland’s public tries to clear the air

A number of economic and bureaucratic bottlenecks means it will take several years to disperse the smog.
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Environment

Green ideals and dirty energy

The EU-backed renewables drive that went wrong
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Democracy

The silences of Terezin

How a new book is challenging not so much the established Czech national narratives of the ghetto and Holocaust, but a virtual wall of silence.