During the Polish think tanks’ visit to Brussels, I was invited to the opening of the European Endowment for Democracy (EED). The Endowment is located in a small palace – a former embassy building handed over by Poland. This location is...
July 29, 2013 10:54 am / no comments
As of July 25 it has been 42 days of protests in Bulgaria and it seems like not a step of progress has been made on the quest for political integrity. Just a few weeks after the new Oresharski government took office and less than four months...
July 28, 2013 8:29 pm / no comments
Freedom and Solidarity, the only Slovakian liberal party in the current parliament, has been facing a serious crisis since April 2013. Slightly more than four years after its foundation, five of its deputies quit SaS and joined the New Majority,...
July 13, 2013 11:22 am / 1 comment
Growth in energy consumption is not just a by-product of economic growth, it is a causal factor. Reducing greenhouse gas emissions requires reducing energy consumption. Attempts to constrain energy consumption can therefore be expected to impede...
June 10, 2013 6:06 pm / no comments
What is politics for you?
I understand politics in a traditional way and according to Aristotle’s definition I perceive it as a service for common welfare together with all ambitions and everything that is connected with being a politician...
May 27, 2013 12:54 pm / 2 comments
The European Union – United States Free Trade Agreement would slow down the global advance of Asia and protect liberal values
The European Union (EU) and the Unites States (US) are two of the most important global markets. Almost half of all...
May 17, 2013 12:49 am / no comments
Since March this year Czech politicians (among other legislators) are exempt from paying social and health insurance on some compensation and thus their salaries are de facto increased (iDNES.cz 2013). Unsurprisingly, such change was met with...
May 4, 2013 3:08 pm / no comments
A great reformer, a friend of Poland and freedom, the symbol of female emancipation – the truth about Margaret Thatcher’s governance is much more complicated than these simple and overused clichés.
This is a file from the Wikimedia...
April 29, 2013 11:39 am / 12 comments
The characteristic features of Margaret Thatcher as a human and things that are the fundament of Thatcherism are: seriousness, persistence and fight. In the world in which a word does not mean anything and can be freely interpreted, she seemed...
April 27, 2013 11:20 am / no comments
Two weeks ago, the government approved a report on the business environment. Last year Entrepreneurs Association of Slovakia, together with the Association of Young Entrepreneurs of Slovakia and the Hospodarksy Noviny (newspaper), was a sponsor...
April 22, 2013 10:21 am / no comments