The truth can hurt. It hurt brave knights of the 4th Republic of Poland when a judge (who was not known some days ago) expressed his opinion on the methods of investigations, which were led by the state authorities in the times when the Law...
February 14, 2013 4:50 pm / no comments
The budget of the European Union could function at half of the proposed cost to EU taxpayers while boosting economic growth, according to a new report, 50:50 for 2020, published in Brussels today.
As European leaders gather in Brussels for the...
February 11, 2013 11:23 pm / no comments
When in 2010 we started our project on the reconsideration of welfare state in Poland and called it “liberal social policy” many people were totally surprised. Why should liberals get engaged in such issues? We were accused of coining a...
February 5, 2013 4:09 pm / 1 comment
The advantage of the “Internet Age” is that we get information from all over the world almost immediately. Sometimes it‘s good, sometimes the news is not so positive. That’s exactly what happened last week. On Wednesday,...
January 21, 2013 4:22 pm / 2 comments
Within 4 months after the beginning of the next EU’s financial framework, the eight member states from Central and Eastern Europe will celebrate their 10th anniversary in the Union. With three of them – Slovenia, Slovakia and Estonia –...
January 16, 2013 1:26 pm / no comments
Structural and cohesion funds represent more than a third of the EU’s budget. We will only be able to assess their importance if we are aware of the economic situation of member states. The volume of our region’s share has more than doubled...
January 10, 2013 12:23 pm / 66 comments
Abstract
The core stones of the EU have always been 4 freedoms which made the Union desirable and promising. However, the EU enlargement is not only physical – with new members joining, – but it is also increasing in powers and regulatory...
January 8, 2013 1:45 pm / 2 comments
The effectiveness of European structural and cohesion funds (SCF) has long been a contradictory topic, both for European institutions and researchers. This matter is particularly interesting for in-depth exploration, because of the lack of unambiguous...
December 16, 2012 11:31 pm / no comments
Since the American Civil War there have been two parties in American politics which have changed their faces many times. If we take a look at their history, we cannot notice any logically structured continuity but we can observe the processes...
December 8, 2012 2:24 pm / no comments
American economy is commonly known to be in a bad condition. Most Americans are convinced that 4 years of the President Obama’s administration government have not managed to deal with the crisis. To my mind, Americans electing for the...
December 8, 2012 2:16 pm / no comments