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Ukraine: The Difficult March to Victory
The prevailing conviction in the West was that President Volodymyr Zelensky would be unable to manage the situation, and the world’s political establishment believed that he should be evacuated as…
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Civic and Gender Participation As a Remedy For Political Disillusionment in Central Europe
The current trends in Western Europe show that civic participation plays an integral part of policy-making. It is an important part of the democratic process, says Kristína Bolemanová, an expert in…
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Ukraine: Europe’s Unfinished Work
Until recently, ‘Ukrainians’ were synonymous with ‘cleaners’ or ‘builders’. If such a belief is held by the Czechs, it is not surprising that countries located further west know even less about…
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Elżbieta Mączyńska: How to Deal with Inflation
Every crisis is a lesson. The lesson here is that you should not loosen monetary policy too much. The question is how to do it without harming the actual economy – says Professor Elżbieta Mączyńska…
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Zuzanna Krzątała: The Future of Leadership Lies in Collective Empowerment
What is the role of the state, what is the role of society? Zuzanna Krzątała works as Project Coordinator at Humanity in Action Poland where she leads an educational mentorship program for young…
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Jana Hlaváčová: To Change the Health Care System For the Better Is a Task For the Whole of Society
I felt it was my calling – to do something good in this world. But I try not to work alone and not to be irreplaceable. I try to share both responsibility and success, says one of the founders of the…
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Cities of the Future Should Be Healthy For Everyone
What are the cities of the future? We urgently need to rethink our cities by designing urban spaces that are healthy for all of its inhabitants. All of them, not just humans, says Alexandra Střelcová…
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Central Europe Reloaded – the New Aspen Review Is Here
The current situation in Ukraine, the labor market, education and young leaders is reloading the principles of CE. You can read this, and much more, in the newest articles in the annual issue of…
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The Role of Public Media in CE Is Very Unstable
A global pandemic, the war in Ukraine, or rising inflation across Europe. More than ever, the crises of recent years have shown once again how important the role of a free media is in any healthy…
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Daniel Münich: The Labor Market in the Czech Republic. We Are Getting into a Rut, Again
We know nothing about the people who came here due to the war in Ukraine, and that is a big mistake, says an economist Daniel Münich in an interview with Robert Schuster. He thinks that one of the…

