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A Passive Approach to the “Green Transformation” of our Economy Will Deprive us of our Prosperity
“The energy industry, transportation, and manufacturing are responsible for three fourths of Czechia’s Carbon Dioxide emissions. They are what needs to change the most”, says Jiří Švejcar…
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Russia Is No Upper Volta With Nuclear Weapons
MEP Alexandr Vondra is unequivocally in favour of helping Ukraine and its admission to NATO and the European Union, but only when the war is over. He is convinced that the Union will turn to the…
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Elections in Slovakia, or Russian roulette
Rastislav Káčer analyzes the future results of the upcoming elections in Slovakia and disseminates the biggest potential threats to the Slovak Republic. He compares the fatalistic mood of Mečiar´s…
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What’s Wrong with How We Run Public Service? What Is the Mission of Public Service?
Petra Dzurovcinova dissects the challenges within the public sector of the Bratislava region while unveiling innovative solutions. She also highlights that the problem definition is key and that…
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A Kidnapped West: The Tragedy of Central Europe
Benjamin Cunningham looks back in his article at two late 20th-century essays from the Czech-French writer Milan Kundera under the title “A Kidnapped West: The Tragedy of Central Europe”. The book’s…
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Can Enlargement Be the EU’s Most Successful Foreign Policy Again?
Responding to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, European states have broken a series of taboos in ways unthinkable until 23 February 2022, the day before the aggression. Many of these taboos were about…
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Butler Britain. How the UK Helps Oligarchs and Kleptocrats
The Kremlin is deeply connected to the western financial system, and Russia and its elites were able to spend money and benefit from offshore accounts freely. All of that was done with the help of…
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The War Will Not End Soon
Ukrainians have been linked to Russia by various ties: political, cultural and personal. But that bond is about to end. There will be a final divorce with Russia, says Prof. Yaroslav Hrytsak in an…
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Czecho-Slovakia, a country divided thirty years ago for nothing
On Saturday January 21st, 2023 I voluntarily headed to Forum Karlín – a concert hall situated right next to “Havel-friendly“ publishing house Economia – both as a journalist and,…
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„Decolonized Russia”? Be careful what you wish for
I don’t see any realistic prospects for Russia disintegration/decolonization nor any genuine wish among peoples living in Russian Federation to participate in such a scenario. To put it simply, you…