Deciding on the formula of contemporary European Union and prospective directions of further integration on the European continent will provoke various controversies. Disputes may arise as to determined political, social and economic solutions....
September 13, 2013 12:09 pm / 2 comments
At a first glance, science-driven policy consulting sounds good. Scientists discover problems and propose solutions, we implement them accordingly. Is it really that easy? No, it isn’t.
Scientists are not data collecting and modeling robots,...
August 26, 2013 7:28 am / 16 comments
We are not going to compare the USA and China or Germany and France or any two other domestic economies. We will talk about economies, which grow in every Western country at a great pace. In some of them they grow faster, in others slower but...
August 19, 2013 10:17 am / 31 comments
For the fourth time, the Institute of Economic and Social Studies INESS has been honored to organize the event commemorating Milton Friedman, one of the most notable flag bearers of economic liberty. As INESS is the most frequently quoted economic...
August 19, 2013 9:47 am / no comments
The mechanism connected with quotas is as follows: women come to men and ask “give us some of your power”. Exactly: we ask. Instead of creating the reality and showing the real women’s strength and potential we once again come to men and...
July 29, 2013 10:44 am / no comments
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
Talking about politics with my friends never ceases to amaze me. Not necessarily because of the process of sharing different views, even though exchanging passionate arguments with people I disagree with has always been, shall we say, stimulating...
July 15, 2013 11:56 am / 1 comment
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
We have all been harassed by petty government officials in daily life – the taxi driver who is harassed by a policeman, the small trader who is harassed by a tax inspector, the small town baker who is harassed by the environmental officer...
June 27, 2013 2:54 pm / 1 comment