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 / 1 comment
It is good that the debate on the expropriation with concerns about a possible reduction in the protection of property has been revived once again. The same scenario took place a few years ago when the first Robert Fico’s administration tried...
July 18, 2013 1:09 pm / no comments
In 2013, Republikon Institute carried out a project funded by the Friedrich Neumann Foundation, called Intensifying Euroscepticism in East Central Europe. The main motivation of the project was the recognition that whereas in some areas a market-oriented,...
July 17, 2013 2:28 pm / 16 comments
We have had two announcements of central banks in Europe. The Bank of England with a new boss, Mr. Carney, made the first one. The second one was made by the ECB. The Bank of England mentioned that forward guidance and intermediate thresholds...
July 11, 2013 10:58 am / no comments
1,000 people from the National Movement ready for active participation gathered in Warsaw. The leaders of the movement did not say anything we would not have expected; their comments were also conventional – starting with the sacred indignation...
July 9, 2013 11:53 am / no comments
The first of January in 2014 is the official euro introduction date in Latvia. The government is in a rush to introduce euro currency in Lithuania, too. Having in mind that Lithuania is holding the Presidency of the Council of the European Union...
July 5, 2013 9:15 am / 5 comments
The end of April is the time of the income tax settlement in Poland. The Civil Development Forum took it as a good opportunity to show Poles how much money the Polish state spends and what it is spent on. It is definitely not a small amount;...
July 2, 2013 8:27 am / no comments
Project Parallel liberalisms, based on research by Republikon Institute, aims to define liberal voters of Hungary – who these liberal voters are and where they stand. Today it is a valid question, since recently the number of parties trying...
June 22, 2013 8:21 am / no comments
From 4th to 12th of June 2013 Industrial Foundation publisher of Liberté! organized “Week of Freedom” – several events and debates to celebrate the anniversary of first partly free democratic elections after the communism domination in...
June 17, 2013 6:27 pm / 8 comments
Students are not responsible for the weakness of the higher educational system. The ones that should be blamed are the professors, who created and have been maintaining dysfunctional mechanisms – harmful, ineffective and inadequate for the...
June 17, 2013 5:59 pm / no comments