From among the EU member-states, the Hungarian government used the most lenient approach to the Russian operations in Ukraine. The opposition parties’ immediate reactions to these events made the government party express its opinion too. We...
March 26, 2014 1:55 pm / 1 comment
The current events in Ukraine are a genuine reminder of what the West takes for granted and the East has worked so hard to achieve. Personal liberty, rule of law, a society organized on voluntary cooperation of free individuals is not a boring...
March 12, 2014 4:30 pm / 1 comment
How soon does the illusion of post-politics – life after the end of history – in stability and peace perish? How soon does the impossible become a fact?
We are a member of the European Union – a region of peace; we are a...
March 4, 2014 11:01 am / no comments
I am writing to you as a former prisoner of conscience from the times of Brezhnev. All other titles, which I have been awarded throughout my whole life, do not matter in the light of the Ukrainian Maidan, which is now bleeding.
My whole life...
February 22, 2014 12:33 pm / 2 comments
To make a liberal dissert of populism, first it should be cleaned of non-liberal and populist additives. What makes me cautious about the concept of this publication, and not only this one, is that populism is presented as a pair to nationalism....
January 8, 2014 12:07 am / no comments
Immediately after the WWII extreme nationalist and xenophobic parties were classed as dregs of the[W1] society. Yet this did not put an end to their activity; on the contrary. Metaphorically speaking, their activity and social support have...
January 6, 2014 11:23 pm / 21 comments
In 1991 a French political scientist and Islam specialist, Gilles Kepel, wrote La revanche de Dieu. Chrétiens, juifs et musulmans à la reconquête du monde (The Revenge of God: the Resurgence of Islam, Christianity and Judaism in the Modern...
January 6, 2014 11:20 pm / no comments
On October 25, law and history students occupied the main building of the Sofia University, one of the city’s landmarks. The reason: their professor, country’s Constitutional Court chairman, did not show up for a lecture after...
December 30, 2013 12:47 pm / 1 comment
A story that is riveting Europe, if not necessarily much of the world, continues to play out on the streets of Ukraine’s capital Kyiv. President Viktor Yanukovych stunned the European Union a week away from its Summit in Vilnius at the end...
December 23, 2013 6:29 pm / no comments
Slovak government’s excessive entrepreneurial confidence and considered state guarantees to nuclear power plant may be costly to the Slovak consumer.
On 2nd December 2013, INESS released a new study in reaction to the government plans to offer...
December 16, 2013 7:48 pm / 2 comments