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Germany, Central Europe, and the EU after Brexit
Britain’s leaving the EU, which will probably take place in two or three years, represents a decisive change in the Union’s balance of power. The EU will become even more synonymous with the eurozone…
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The V4 as an Anti-German Coalition
In the refugee crisis a new dynamic emerged between Germany and the V4—all members of the Schengen area. If in the euro crisis the EU was divided between north and south, in the refugee crisis it was…
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Martin Buchtík: Generation What Lacks the Shared Experience of Tackling Some Society-Wide Challenge.
Research on the opinions of young people between the ages of 18 and 34 shows that thanks to modern communications this generation has no problems moving out of the environment into which they were…
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I’m a poet and I know it. The Nobel Prize and Bob Dylan’s Literary Credentials
For those who deal with literature more often than once in a blue moon, Nobel Prizes in Literature are not very exciting. They do not define the directions of literature’s development, and certainly…
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The End of History, Postponed
The Liberal Order Is on the Defensive Due to Our Lack of Will
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Unconditional Basic Income (UBI)
For a few decades we were told that money from the government should be spend cautiously, so that it would not make its beneficiaries lazy. The unconditional basic income (UBI) mocks all these…
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Fabian Zuleeg: The Multi-Speed Europe Scenario Is the Most Realistic One
There are political risks attached to further integration of the eurozone within the model of “multi-speed Europe,” but far greater risk would be to allow the eurozone to fail—says Fabian Zuleeg in…
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The Internet Is Broken. Here’s How to Fix It.
We have to fix the Internet. After forty years in existence, it has begun to corrode, both itself and us. It is still a marvelous and miraculous invention, but now there are bugs in the foundation,…
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How the TV Producers Transformed into the Producers of the Country
Book review: The Invention of Russia.From Gorbachev’s Freedom to Putin’s War. by Arkady Ostrovsky
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Where the Most Common Method of Contraception Is Prayer
Book review: The Art of Loving. The Story of Michalina Wisłocka by Maria Sadowska