Today, we hear everywhere about the importance of the SDGs. Multinational companies, NGOs and politicians are talking about how they would implement the UN’s goals. But what is the European Parliament doing about it?

In times of galloping inflation, the Polish government creates another inflation impulse – the “Coal allowance”, the payment of which is expected to cost as much as PLN 11.5 billion. Once again, the government grants support regardless of the beneficiary’s financial situation.

I can imagine brave female deputies from the ruling party who vote for universal access to abortion until the end of the 1st trimester of pregnancy. I can imagine left-wing female councilors being able to work with nuns at a community center. Difficult times require extraordinary actions and searching for compromises.

History has been fraught with bad leaders. The terribly bad ones are not those whose leadership skills are lacking, far from it. In fact, the worst leaders excel at leadership skills, at least for those minimum number of people who can keep them in a leadership position.

Estonia has witnessed several changes of government in the last few years. On July 18, there has been another one. However, Estonia’s success story as the most economically and technologically developed country in transition has not stopped yet.

Russia ‘s full-scale invasion of Ukraine highlighted the weak points of the Ukraine’s economy. In the recent years, Ukraine’s manufacturing sector predominantly demonstrated stagnation. Consequently, manufacturing is expected to decline by 42.6% due to the war, much higher than decline of Ukraine’s GDP – 31% (according to the IER assessment).

There are several spheres in which Georgia now depends on Russian imports. First of all, in the energy sector. While the figures can vary, Russian imports became essential during the recent years. The natural gas Georgia receives mostly from Azerbaijan but part of the supply is based on the transit payment of the Russia-Armenia pipeline.

In this episode of the Liberal Europe Podcast, Leszek Jażdżewski (Fundacja Liberté!) welcomes Professor Wojciech Sadurski, Challis Professor of Jurisprudence at the University of Sydney and a Professor of the University of Warsaw, Centre for Europe. He is a member of several supervisory or program boards, including the International Association of Constitutional Law, ICON-S, and the Institute of Public Affairs (Poland). They talk about democracy, populisms, and their different faces in light of the current crises.