&nbsp;   This is the second part of In Between Europe’s explainer on what is happening to the independent judiciary in Poland with Christian Davies of the Guardian. In part I, we looked at the big picture, while in this episode we go down the nitty-gritty of laws and the main ideas around democracy and separation of powers.&nbsp; History minute: The Failure of Democratic Processes in Interwar Poland in  PartI &nbsp; Resources:  The conspiracy theorists who have taken over Poland, Christian Davies, The Guardian, 16 February 2016  How to Demolish and Independent Judiciary with the Help of a Constitutional Court, Marcin Matczak, Verfassungsblog, 23 June 2017  Poland and the European Commission, Part III, Laurent Pech &amp; Kim Lane Scheppele, Verfassungsblog, 3 March 2017  Winter in Warsaw, Annabelle Chapman, The Spectator, 21 July 2016 Poland: Some Hope in the Midst of Chaos, Zselyke Csaky, Freedom at Issue, 19 December 2016 God’s Playground: A History of Poland, Norman Davies, Oxford University Press, 1981       Subscribe via RSS feed. Subscribe via  iTunes.

#5 Law and Justice in Poland (Part II)

&nbsp;   We tackle propaganda, fake news, and numbers in general in this episode. For this enormous task, we talk to freelance Canadian journalist Michael Colborne, who is currently based in Prague and has written for Coda Story, Al-Jazeera, CBC, and others. History minute: Traditions of mistrust and distrust in East Central Europe &nbsp; Resources:  Surveying Some Surveys: Czech &amp; Refugees, Immigrants and Islam, Michael Colborne, 27 April 2017  A Lesson on How Not to Fight Disinformation, Michael Colborne, 11 June 2017  Globsec Trends 2017: Mixed Messages and Signs of Hope from Central and Eastern Europe, Globsec, May 2017  Document: Russia Uses Rigged Polls, Fake News to Sway Foreign Elections, Joe Parkinson &amp; Georgi Kantchev, WSJ, 23 March 2017  Standard Eurobarometer 87, May 2017       Subscribe via RSS feed. Subscribe via  iTunes.

#6 The Numbers Game in the Age of Information Warfare

In this episode we talk about corruption trends and the trajectory of the anticorruption fight in Romania with Laura Stefan, an anticorruption expert with the Romanian think tank Expert Forum. Laura tells us about the incentives in Romania’s political system that sustain corruption and the potential problems stemming from the use of criminal law to tackle an ultimately political issue. History minute: Historical determinism meets norm entrepreneurship&nbsp; Resources:  Romania’s Protests: A Response to a Three-Pronged Assault on Anti-Corruption Measures, Daniel Brett, LSE EUROPP Blog, 2 February 2017 Populism 2.0 and the Rebirth of Alternatives to Liberal Democracy, annual report, Expert Forum, 2017  Questions and Answers on Romania’s Anticorruption Implosion, Alina Mungiu-Pippidi, European Center for Anticorruption and State Building, 2017 Romania, Nations in Transit 2017 country report, Freedom House, 2017 Bacalaureat [Graduation], Cristian Mungiu, 2016 De Ce Eu [Why Me?], Tudor Giurgiu, 2015       Subscribe via RSS feed. Subscribe via  iTunes.

#7 Corruption in Romania

We tackle the Visegrad Four cooperation in this episode, talking about its past, present, and future with Wojciech Przybylski, the editor in chief of Visegrad Insight and chairman of Res Publica Nowa. The V4 group made up of Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia has received much attention since the European migration crisis broke out in 2015. This attention, however, might have overshadowed the fact that Visegrad has often found it hard to stake out common positions and that its role, in a coming potential multi-speed Europe, could be upended even more. History minute: Why Central Europe matters — at least for Central Europeans Resources: History of the Visegrad Group, Visegrad Group official website Vote Splitting in the V4, VoteWatch Europe, Visegrad Insight, 15 May 2017  Public Opinion Poll on Crucial V4 Issues, Nézőpont Intézet, 14 September 2017  Unity of Central Europe’s Visegrad Group under Strain, Lili Bayer, Politico Europe, 31 August 2017       Subscribe via RSS feed. Subscribe via  iTunes.

#8 What's Going on in Visegrad?

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