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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…
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Russian Schizophrenia
Our political elites have long yearned for authoritarianism. Or is it even more than that? Totalitarian tendencies? “In today’s Russia, people are told what to think. There is no freedom of opinion…
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Moscow Perceives Fear as a Political Instrument
When Vladimir Putin decided to annex Crimea, the question in Poland and the West was, “Where will Russia stop? What will be its next territorial demands?” Both then and today my answer is the same:…
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Streams Falling Into One River: A Threat to Democracy
The American political system is in the most serious crisis in decades, argue Ivan Hodac and Rüdiger Lentz in a double interview with Łukasz Pawłowski. The roots of this crisis go much deeper, they…
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Ursula von der Leyen: Democracy is what we make of it!
Speeaking about democratic values, Europe’s future challenges and the question of why Europe is simply the best place to live in the world—Ursula von der Leyen has been President of the European…
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Russia Views Visegrad as a Weak Link in the European Union
“Recent events in the Czech Republic clearly show that the times when one could be a member of NATO and the European Union and at the same time allow Russians to build nuclear power plants in the…
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People Want New Faces
Young Belarusians will continue to go to Polish or Lithuanian universities. I am not convinced, however, that this will foster democratization, says Piotr Pogorzelski in an interview with Zbigniew…
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To Counter Populists We Need a “People First” Kind of Liberalism