Since November 2013 the world has turned its gaze towards Ukraine. The country, which in its attempt to gravitate towards the West has been trying to break away from the Russian impact, is now on the brink of a civil war. What Ukraine can do...
November 10, 2014 12:57 pm / 2 comments
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Some steps of the Czech government, leaded by social democrat Bohuslav Sobotka, are strange. It is like to paint a house with white color, and then repaint it with black to secure it is not too white. It is like to...
September 11, 2014 9:55 am / no comments
At the quarter-century mark of the Visegrad states’ freedom from the USSR, Johannes Wachs examines the Group’s role in today’s European Union.
2014 marks both the twenty-fifth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall and the tenth year...
August 25, 2014 8:30 am / 1 comment
Tuesday, 10th of June, 2014 – did you feel some change in comparison with days before? No? If you live in the Czech Republic, you should. The Tax Freedom Day has arrived! The last Tuesday was the first day when people have started to earn...
June 14, 2014 10:55 am / 1 comment
The 2014 EP elections are over. Below, you can find further analysis of consequences brought by the Czech results. They are summed up into 5 points.
Firstly, TOP09, a brand of Prince Karel Schwarzenberg, a popular politician from the Noble family...
May 30, 2014 11:26 am / no comments
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The EP election 2014 can be characterized mainly by a very low attendance of voters in the Czech Republic. Only 18.2 % of voters threw their ballots into boxes in deserted polling stations, in comparison with the 28.22%...
May 27, 2014 10:24 am / no comments
Republikon Institute used data available from Eurobarometer to construct three categories among voting-age population in Europe: eurosceptics, who are dissatisfied with Europe; “soft eurooptimists”, who, in general, are comfortable with...
April 18, 2014 9:12 am / no comments
Tax Freedom Day that is calculated and promoted by Liberalni Institut every year in the Czech Republic, was celebrated on Saturday, 9th June 2012. This result indicates six-day improvement compared to the last year, i.e. the Czech taxpayers...
June 13, 2012 10:29 am / 3 comments
Two years ago, here in Wrocław [at Wrocław Global Forum], you called United States and Europe “G2 of the world” and today you referred to them as “catamaran on stormy waters”, so I was wondering if you think that we can observe serious,...
June 11, 2012 11:43 am / no comments
As the portal czechposition.com writes Czech government adopted a proposal concerning national referenda which gives Czechs the chance to vote in referendum on important national and foreign issues.
According to the proposal calling referendum...
March 29, 2012 11:33 am / no comments