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The 25th anniversary of the Polish Round Table [that started the democratic transition] inspires to look back and reflect on what really happened in the spring of 1989. Perhaps this anniversary does not have to be only...
November 10, 2014 12:33 pm / 272 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
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Leszek Balczerowicz
Economic Freedom:
Fundamentally Important
and the Most Attacked*
I dedicated this essayi to the memory of a great liberal thinker and a statesman, Luigi Einaudi. I start with noting the conceptual...
May 23, 2014 7:53 pm / no comments
Social, political and economic regulations are a result of the fact that not all of us are equipped with natural predispositions to the satisfactory degree. We are not even equipped equally. Therefore, we must compensate this inadequacy with...
May 1, 2014 10:07 am / 3 comments
I met repeatedly with the opinion that people born or growing up after ’89 usually underestimate the benefits of the transformation. We got used to the fact that the store shelves are full, elections regular and fair and the borders open....
April 17, 2014 8:54 pm / 1 comment
1. How dramatic is the situation in Ukraine? More and more commentators claim that the country is on the verge of civil war.
Yes, it is. However, the confrontation is not between e.g. regions, but between governmental structures, mostly security...
January 28, 2014 5:35 pm / 18,039 comments
Rebuilding the Union on a Radically Parliamentarian Basis
The functioning of the Union shall be founded on representative democracy.
Treaty of Lisbon, article 10
Crisis, a moment for improvement
The debate on the European Union has been increasingly...
January 20, 2014 11:46 pm / 2 comments
Legal regulations concerning axiological choices made by individuals in their private or intimate spheres, formed on the basis of the expectations and awareness of the democratic majority, are essentially deprived of legitimization and are not...
November 4, 2012 11:24 pm / no comments