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Exports: Mainstay and Showcase of the Czech Economy—Threats and Opportunities
The old materialistic belief that whatever you cannot physically touch does not really exist is still deeply rooted in Czech thinking. Over the past years, as the world has become more “virtualized,”…
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Ruby Gropas: Free Movement of Workers Is Non-Negotiable
People need to feel that prosperity and opportunity is fairly shared. As long as European societies feel exposed to job precarity, support for building “walls” would only strengthen – says Ruby…
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Art Despite War
But tell us why, why did they burn our city down? “Where are you coming from, dark caravan” Serhiy Zhadan, translated by Virlana Tkacz and Wanda Phipps
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A Familiar Refrain
In Europe’s Shadow: Two Cold Wars and a Thirty-Year Journey Through Romania and Beyond, Robert D. Kaplan (Random House, 2016)
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Literature as an Ark
Psalm 44 – Danilo Kiš, translated by Danuta Cirlić-Straszyńska, Książkowe Klimaty (Wroclaw, 2016)
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The Powerful Have No Clothes!
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e-Estonia: Between Russia and the Cloud
Estonia may be the very first country in the world to entrust its very sovereignty to cloud-based technologies. Its government is in the process of backing up all of the e-government data to servers…
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Lot of Smoke,
Lot of Money,
but to Little EffectOrbán’s policy exploits Hungarian minorities abroad to cement its power at home. His calculation is clear: The votes of the foreign Hungarians could secure the constitutional majority of his…
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Lonely Island in Big World: Brexit as Imperial Fantasy
The citizens of Eastern European countries felt at home in Great Britain. It seemed a fulfilment of dreams, the place where normality reigned. The referendum showed how false our illusions had been.
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Europe’s Last Hope
What Macron wishes to achieve can only be effected through a full political union, which would mean the final end of French sovereignty. He may wish to go down this road, but would France follow him?…