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What’s the Future of Central Europe?
I am hopeful that there will not be a third world war, but I am pessimistic about Ukraine – says British historian Martyn Rady.
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The Land that Came out of the Footnotes
Ukraine was recognized too late and at too high a price. And the account is still not final. Mykola Riabchuk
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Orbán Is All About Cash
Michael Ignatieff, former Rector of Central European University in Budapest, author and former Canadian politician, on how Viktor Orbán rose to the top of the Conservative International and created a…
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Zuzana Čaputová: a Lone Fighter Against Malfunctioning Politics
Zuzana Čaputová is the first woman to hold the position of head of state in the Slovak Republic, and one of the few females to have decided to take an active part in the politics of this fairly young…
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The Church Is Somewhere In-between
“Conservative, identity-based piety will not offer people any vision of the future. Certainly, the kind of Church we know from Poland or even the Czech Republic will not do it,” says Monsignor Prof.…
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Putin Certainly Won’t Stop
Russian national identity is based on pride in its armed forces and its ability to defeat an enemy, albeit an enemy largely invented, like the Ukrainians – says Prof. Orlando Figes in an…
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Schools Are Lacking Courses on Civic Competence
According to Julian Gerhart, schools are in serious need of courses on civic competence. Five years ago, he founded zmudri.sk, an educational website, along with his friends, and has since received…
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A Tale of Two Cities
Overreach: The Inside Story of Putin’s War Against Ukraine Owen Matthews Mudlark, 2022 448 pp By Benjamin Cunningham
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We Need to Make Environmentally Conscious Choices Every Day
Minka Halasz from Hungary and Anka Sušická from the Czech Republic were among the many participants at the Aspen Future Leaders Climate Summit, which took place in March 2023 in Miami, Florida. In…
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The New Silk Road in the Shadow of War
While the war in Ukraine has brought China and Russia closer together, deepening the asymmetry between these powers to Moscow’s disadvantage, the implications of the conflict for China’s flagship…

