On April 16, 2014 in the House of Literature in Warsaw, European Liberal Forum, Republikon Institute and Fundacja Industrial (“Liberté!”, 4liberty.eu) held a conference organized within the cycle of meetings dedicated to the memory of Bronislaw...
April 18, 2014 10:16 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
In Slovakia, there is a bill restricting landowners’ property rights on the table. Like elsewhere in the EU, we are also worried about our food. Foreigners, however, are the least of a problem for the Slovak agriculture.
On May 1, 2014, the...
April 15, 2014 11:01 am / 1 comment
Convincing people that dropping prices put them in harm’s way is a marketing bête noire on a par with electing a diehard intellectual to the office of president.
But politicians and their financiers have managed just that. Perceiving deflation...
April 10, 2014 2:24 pm / no comments
On May 1st, 2004, right before the centennial of the first Young Estonia almanac, Estonia became a fully-fledged member of the European Union. Gustav Suits, a poet, had once famously called upon the readers of the almanac by saying, “Let us...
April 2, 2014 1:14 pm / 8 comments
“It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.”
(Smith, 2010: 22)
Thus, Adam Smith described the nature of markets in his Wealth of...
March 27, 2014 6:33 pm / no comments
Back in late 2012, the European Commission put forward the notion of reindustrializing Europe. The main goal of that policy is to increase the industrial sector’s share in the European economy from 15.6% in 2012 to 20% in 2020. The target...
March 27, 2014 5:53 pm / 9 comments
We need to exert pressure on the West to take firmer action towards Russia. Not only for the sake of principles, but also common sense and our security. There is more and more evidence that Russia is carrying out a plan devised meticulously...
March 17, 2014 3:48 pm / 1,291 comments
The European Commission, through its Directorate for Research and Innovation, has published the latest results of a comparison of innovation performance among EU member states. Compared to the rest of the world, the countries of the EU as a whole...
March 17, 2014 3:26 pm / 2 comments
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