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For the first time since 1995, investment as a share of the economy is higher in Lithuania than in Estonia. According to Eurostat, gross fixed capital formation in Lithuania amounted to 22.1% of GDP in the first quarter of 2026, while in Estonia it fell to 21.7%. Lithuania remained ahead in the second quarter, with investment reaching 22.4% of GDP, compared with 22.1% in Estonia.

Two world-renowned economists, Stiglitz and Piketty, have come out of the closet. They have admitted to the world that they are degrowthers. Writing in The Guardian, they argue that \"economic growth is a doomed strategy.\"

Can Europe attain digital sovereignty? What are the limits of the EU\'s regulatory power? Is the dichotomy between sovereignty and a colony unavoidable? And what is Europe\'s digital grand strategy? Leszek Jazdzewski (Fundacja Liberte!) talks with Dr José Ignacio Torreblanca, a Senior Adviser and Distinguished Policy Fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations.

The rapid development of artificial intelligence technologies creates both unprecedented opportunities for progress and significant risks to fundamental human rights, security, and privacy. This necessitates the development of balanced regulatory frameworks that would ensure the safe use of AI.

We are pleased to present the nineteenth issue of 4liberty.eu Review, titled “20 Years in the EU: CEE and Its Path to Progress”. This time, our primary focus is on celebrating 20 years of several CEE states joining the European Union in the 2004 accession.

The team from Liberte, the Institute for Economic Research and Policy Consulting and Bendukidze Free Market Center, with the support of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom, continue to monitor Ukraine\'s progress or regression on its path to the EU on a monthly basis.

The conclusions of the ECB’s report is that establishing an environment that favors a steady convergence requires policies aiming at economic stability, as well as wide structural reforms. This statement holds regardless of whether we will adopt the Euro or not.

Sci-fi? Such an idea has no unrealistic basis. This biological nature of members of different cultures related to the ability to prosper is the same. One of the practical examples is the USA, which cannot refer to the race or the religion as a factor of its prosperity.

After the resignation of Jüri Ratas (Estonian Center Party) on January 13th, due to an inquiry entailing alleged corruption charges against his party, Kaja Kallas, the center-right Reform Party’s leader, has become the first female Estonian Prime Minister.

The Church in Poland was, is, and will be. Meanwhile, political parties exist, disappear, and new ones emerge. This is what it looks like in Poland, where politicians of all ideological backgrounds are much more afraid of their parish priest than of their voters.