Shakespeare as a Modern Sensibility

William Shakespeare is likely to have become a modern sensibility. Like Niccolò Machiavelli or his own contemporary and significant other, Christopher Marlowe, William Shakespeare seems to have developed into a modern moral and political sensibility, a criterion of modernity, and even a symbolic design within which we perceive and interpret ourselves and the world around us.

Is Democracy a Solution to All Problems?

Democracy is not something you simply declare and then everything is fine

Ukraine — it’s somewhere in Europe... but where, exactly?

It is impossible to say that Europe gave up on Ukraine - then or now. However, there is no other option for society, but to rid itself of the oppression inflicted by its own elite

Andreas Gross: “A democratic citizen cannot be neutral”

Andreas Gross, head of the PACE observers delegation to Ukraine and Chairman of the PACE Social Democratic Group, told The Ukrainian Week about the developments following his previous interview.

Face Control

When yet another acquaintance of mine asked me, for the fourth time this week, why I am not running for a seat in parliament, I had to stop and think. Is the career of a politician so attractive in the view of so many people that it is worth abandoning your profession (which you may happen to love), competence, previously acquired practical experience, an established mode of life and, finally, your circle of friends? (The milieu of which inevitably changes in the upper stratosphere.)

How Information Society Can Drive Democratic Change in Ukraine

European institutions should make building an information society in Ukraine one of the priorities of Ukrainian-European cooperation.

Fata Morgana of Western Europe

After the catastrophe of the First World War, social democratic forces in Western Europe that previously existed there experienced a radical transformation under the influence of the Russian Bolsheviks.

The First Step

Things will be the same for a long time to come. Nothing will change, because no one really wants any changes. Most people simply need things to stay as they are

Is European Culture a Fantasy?

Is European culture a fantasy? Is it more or less so than European politics? These are the questions that cross my mind over and over again when I try to think of how to reverse the ongoing tragedy of the EU – namely, its silent and slow demise, which is a fact of reality, to my dismay.

Criminals in Politics

Politics has always been about a watershed between legitimate and illegitimate figures in power