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Elżbieta Mączyńska: How to Deal with Inflation
Every crisis is a lesson. The lesson here is that you should not loosen monetary policy too much. The question is how to do it without harming the actual economy – says Professor Elżbieta Mączyńska…
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Daniel Münich: The Labor Market in the Czech Republic. We Are Getting into a Rut, Again
We know nothing about the people who came here due to the war in Ukraine, and that is a big mistake, says an economist Daniel Münich in an interview with Robert Schuster. He thinks that one of the…
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Jiří Švejcar: Continuous Training and Education Raises Productivity
The Czech labor market will have transformed radically by 2030, some jobs will disappear entirely and approximately 330,000 people will lose their jobs, Jiří Švejcar says in an interview with Robert…
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A Whole Generation Has Grown Up with Putin’s Propaganda
This year, Marina Ovsyannikova interrupted a broadcast of Vremya to protest against the Russian invasion of Ukraine, which made international news headlines. What led her to do this courageous move…
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Janina Ochojska: Humanitarian and Military Aid are Two Different Things.
Humanitarian and military aid are two different things. If we confuse one with the other, the very idea of humanitarian aid is at risk of being destroyed says Janina Ochojska in an interview with…
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Bruno Maçães: Europe is Emerging as a Geopolitical Union
The problems that Europe is facing are directly related to errors of national policy, particularly in Germany, yet the EU has been much bolder and more decisive than the average member state in this…
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Javier Blas: For Those Who barter the World’s Resources, the War Is an Opportunity
The point when Russia has maximum energy leverage against Europe is early winter, when during the coldest snap Vladimir Putin decides to turn off the gas. I think the people really realize how ugly…
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Michał Tarnowski: Central Europe as a Niche for Social Entrepreneurship
Social entrepreneurship can be a successful business and positive change to society. It is a great idea for startup models in CE. Are entrepreneurs able to help solve social issues? How civil service…
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Xi Jinping Wants to Have Siberia for Dinner
Karel Schwarzenberg believes that the West made a mistake at the Bucharest NATO Summit in April 2008, when it failed to extend the Alliance’s Membership Action Plan to Georgia and Ukraine. Here is…
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If in the Next Few Days Central Europe Were to Shut Down, Western Europe Would Stop Functioning
The obstacles standing in the path of the economic growth of the region include the depleting labor market and the persistently low trust in the establishment, says Mojmir Hampl in an interview with…