Cristian Cercel

Why Fascists Always Come for the Socialists First Contrary to right-wing myths that the "Nazis were socialist," fascists despise socialism and want to destroy it. Here's why the left poses such a threat to them.

Fascists despise many things about socialism. In particular, and related, are its rationalism, materialism, cosmopolitan universalism, and above all socialism’s egalitarianism. www.currentaffairs.org/news/why-fas...

NEC in Bucharest, CAS in Sofia

Romania is destroying its education system and its future together with it A look into stats, policies and claims of the current political strongmen in the country

“Romania already had an underfinanced education system with disastrous results. Now, with huge emigration rates, a low skilled workforce and an aging population, these measures could well be the last nail in the coffin for Romania’s future.”

Happy to have contributed to the dossier on “Lorrainians” in Banat published by “Revue d’Allemagne”. And extremely grateful to Benjamin Landais, who had to put a lot of effort in order to make my French readable. The dossier, currently under paywall, is here: journals.openedition.org/allemagne/4369

Nicușor Dan asks the private sector to replace the state and come up with ready-made policies President Nicușor Dan told business representatives at the "Dialogue for Development" Summit that the Romanian state currently lacks the administrative capacity to develop efficient policies and that ...

Why have a state, after all?

US revokes six foreigners’ visas over social media comments criticizing Charlie Kirk State department says it has ‘no obligation’ to host foreign nationals who ‘celebrate heinous’ death of far-right activist

so much freedom in the land of the free

Gastarbeiter aus Rumänien: Experte sieht „Aufstand der Ausgebeuteten“ Europas Landwirtschaft wird von Arbeitsmigranten getragen. Warum dieses System inklusive finanzieller Ausbeutung bis hin zu sexueller Gewalt noch funktioniert, erklärt der rumänische Historiker und An...

“Europäische Landwirtschaft, wie sie heute organisiert ist, basiert auf ausbeutbarer Arbeit. Früher Rumänen statt Polen, jetzt Roma oder Arbeiter aus Nepal, Bangladesch, Vietnam. Ohne diese Arbeitskräfte würde vieles zusammenbrechen oder viel teurer werden.”

Treated Like Meat: Romanians Suffer Violence, Broken Promises in Dutch Industry Romanian migrants recruited by employment agencies often end up in some of the toughest and lowest-paid jobs in the Netherlands, most notably in the meat industry.

The European dream:
“In 2020-2021, the Dutch Labour Inspectorate reported that more than two-thirds of severely disadvantaged workers employed by an employment agency in low-wage industries were Romanian. The trend is most pronounced in the meat industry…”

WirtschaftsWoche vom 14.08.2025: "Grenzkontrollen Deutschland: 493 Menschen an den Grenzen zurückgewiesen - für 80,5 Millionen Euro. / Seit September 2024 kontrolliert die Bundespolizei an allen deutschen Landgrenzen. Das kostet Millionen. Besonders teuer ist die Vergütung der Überstunden."

Zurückweisungen verstoßen nicht nur gegen geltendes Recht und sind menschlich sowie moralisch verwerflich, sie kosten den Steuerzahler darüber hinaus viel Geld: 80,5 Millionen Euro – für 493 zurückgewiesene Personen.

Eine in jeder Hinsicht desaströse Bilanz.
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Adam Shatz · Berlin Diary Under the policy of Staatsräson, which has made the defence of Israel a central pillar of the German state, the lesson...

New today: Adam Shatz in Berlin.

‘That Germany has a responsibility to remember the Holocaust is beyond question. But it’s striking how little concern there is for other populations that have experienced racial discrimination or violence at the hands of the Germans.’

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Cornel Ban, despre austeritate și neoliberalism: cum circulă ideile economice în lume - Mindcraft Stories Trăiește la Copenhaga, predă economie politică internațională la Copenhagen Business School și este cercetător afiliat la Global Development Policy Center din Boston. Scrie despre politici economice ș...

“Ideea asta că, dacă ai un stat slab, trebuie să-l faci și mai slab în zona serviciilor publice e, sincer, foarte proastă.”

Europe’s pledge to spend more on military will hurt climate and social programmes Nato plan to increase military spending overlooks risks to security posed by environmental breakdown and social decay, say economists

„If extraordinary sums can be mobilised for the military, with far lower economic returns and much lower social benefits, then the refusal to fund a just transition and stronger public services is clearly political, not economic.”

Herzliche Einladung zum Vortrag „Dubious Legacies: Cities of Eastern, East-Central and South-Eastern Europe. 1850–2000“ von Markian Prokopovych (Durham) im Rahmen des Gesprächskreises Neuere Geschichte.

📅 2.6.25, 18:15 Uhr
📍Großer Übungsraum, Osteuropainstitut (Wilhelmstr. 36)

Închisoarea terorii de la Doftana, transformată hotel de lux cu piscină și cinema. Planurile dezvăluite de investitor După 85 de ani de ruină, închisoarea terorii de la Doftana, județul Prahova, va fi transformată într-un hotel de lux cu 1.500 de locuri de cazare, cinematograf și piscină.  Declarată monument istoric în anul 2015 „Am pus toată experiența mea de treizeci de ani în turism în acest proiect”, susține Mohammad Murad, omul de afaceri […]

In Romania, investor (also member of AUR and MP) won a tender & plans to turn the former prison where, among others, Communist and Fascist leaders were imprisoned, in a luxury hotel. Complains about bureaucracy (too many approvals needed). One can only hope bureaucracy will have the better of him.

I published something in the latest issue of the Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung. It’s on the Lorrainians/French in Banat, it’s in English and it’s open access. Check it out here: www.zfo-online.de/portal/zfo/a... www.zfo-online.de/portal/zfo/a...

Beim Institut für donauschwäbische Geschichte und Landeskunde (IdGL) in Tübingen ist zum 01.07.2025 eine unbefristete Stelle im Forschungsbereich Migrations- und Mobilitätsforschung zu besetzen:

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o insulă de latinitate!

The past and present of the history of racism in Romania - CEU Review of Books Cristian Cercel provides an in-depth reflection on Marius Turda’s new book În căutarea românului perfect. Specific național, degenerare rasială și selecție socială în România modernă, published by Pol...

📣 New Long Read!

Cristian Cercel provides an in-depth reflection on Marius Turda’s new book În căutarea românului perfect. Specific național, degenerare rasială și selecție socială în România modernă, published by Polirom in 2024.

Read it here:
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The world is decomposing, yes, but I published something on Danube Swabians, homeland orientations, and multiple diasporic possibilities

Well, the first McDonald’s in Romania opened in 1995, and they had cheeseburger on the menu, I am pretty sure about that…