On the border, the battle is comparatively shut – Verfassungsblog – Cyber Tech

Final yr, the Middle for Interdisciplinary Labour Legislation Research moved from the primary constructing of the European College Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder) 300 metres additional down the “Große Scharrnstraße”. A number of workstations at the moment are housed in what resembles a coworking area with a settee and a small library, close to to a kitchen and a rooftop terrace. The area is just 500 metres away from a bridge crossing the Oder. On the opposite facet is Poland, rendering the battle in Ukraine a lot nearer to house in a really literal sense, completely different than in Berlin or elsewhere.

The battle’s implications for private {and professional} relationships are additionally noticeable. Final yr, Ivan Yatskevych from the Kiyv-Mohyla Academy visited. For the reason that transfer, our work arrange has modified such that as quickly as one involves work, we really meet – within the workforce, but additionally with visitor researchers. Because of this, Ivan and I’ve typically had the chance to trade concepts, resulting in me now engaged on a proposal for a joint undertaking by which we’ll suppose and write about Ukrainian labour regulation.

The state of affairs feels absurd. How do you intend for the subsequent two years in Ukraine? Are we planning a workshop in Kiyv subsequent yr – or a closing convention in Lviv in 2026? With catering and lodging? We calculate the prices to journey from Kiyv to Frankfurt (Oder) – maybe first from Kiyv to Budapest or Bucharest? I get a touch of what it should imply to stay and work in Ukraine now, a rustic the place every thing is determined by the event of the Russian battle, and private planning is near inconceivable. Many Ukrainians now research or work in Frankfurt and on the Viadrina. Enterprise administration pupil Olha Krahel from the Nationwide College Kyiv Mohyla Academy, for instance, is right here on an trade programme; her exhibition “Unissued Diplomas“, which is at the moment displayed on the Viadrina, portrays 40 younger individuals who died on account of the Russian assault on Ukraine earlier than they have been capable of full their research.

At first it took me some time to know why Ivan all the time talks in regards to the “full-scale” Russian assault when he refers back to the invasion two years in the past. In any case, hell already broke unfastened in 2014 when the Russian assault started. Right here not less than, some individuals have begun to understand this early on, as a consequence of our location on the border. After February 24, 2022, civil society on each side of the Oder was attempting to assist, spending weeks on the prepare station to assist Ukrainian refugees. Much more surreal was the state of affairs one Monday final yr. As we welcomed Ivan, his spouse and daughter to the college, we watched the weekly continuation of the ‘Querdenker‘ demonstration move by – with a great deal of Russian flags.

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Viadrina has lengthy had significant contacts and trade with quite a few Ukrainian universities. This doubtless has one thing to do with the truth that because of the shut cooperation with Polish companions, the Polish (realistic-critical) view of Russia is current. This view is exemplary for the discourse on Russia in lots of Central and Japanese European international locations. On the border, this shortly concretizes into each private and institutional realities. On the opposite facet of the Oder is the Collegium Polonicum which homes, amongst different issues, the European New College of Digital Research, a joint establishment of Viadrina and Adam Mickiewicz College in Poznań. Even those that know little in regards to the German-Polish historical past will notice how uncommon such an institutional cooperation stays, particularly one which has existed for greater than 30 years now. The cooperation started shortly after the Viadrina was based, lengthy earlier than Poland joined the EU, and from the outset it was seen as greater than only a contractual alliance: from its very inception, it has been operated and developed as a joint tutorial establishment with joint administration and joint diploma programmes.

For the reason that Oder has stopped functioning as an exterior EU border, paths to cooperate and work collectively have change into even shorter. Poland’s accession to the EU – now virtually precisely twenty years in the past – or, to be extra exact, the complete freedom of motion that adopted was a decisive step ahead. Regrettably, the latter was solely launched in 2011 as a result of Germany most well-liked holding the Poles out for an additional seven years to introducing a minimal wage regulation. Immediately, the shut cooperation between Frankfurt and Słubice, the Polish city on the opposite facet of the Oder, which till 1945 was referred to as “Frankfurt Dammvorstadt”, is greater than an artwork undertaking, greater than the imaginary Słubfurt, the inventive development of actuality initiated by Michael Kurzwelly, with its personal structure, native elections, and so forth. By now, the 2 cities work collectively carefully in actuality, as a German-Polish twin metropolis. So shut, the truth is, that they even collectively arrange their power provide by a typical district heating pipeline and a cross-border bus service. Authorized consultants can most likely guess what bureaucratic and authorized obstacles should be overcome time and again, to not point out the historic and political ones. It was, notably, the scholars who pushed for a joint bus route, which was financed by the AStA till it grew to become built-in into the community.

Nevertheless, typically the border does really feel like an exterior border once more. Since final yr, the Federal Border Guard, which didn’t dismantle its big installations on the border bridge till 2013 anyway, has been usually checking the border once more. It’s all the extra becoming that an set up by Joanna Rajkowska final yr introduced the loss of life and distress on the EU’s exterior borders on to the border bridge. On the promenade stood a 3 metres excessive concrete wall studded with glass (on which individuals passing by wrote their ideas with Submit-Its). If you happen to regarded down from the bridge at a distance, you might see that it was forming a easy and succinct SORRY. It was an invite to suppose in another way in regards to the border and to enhance understanding of flight – not a simple subject, particularly within the German-Polish dialogue (when it isn’t in regards to the flight of Ukrainians after the full-scale invasion). However Polish discourse might have helped us not less than grasp the importance of the Russian assault on Crimea again in 2014, if solely we had listened extra carefully.

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