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Another Landslide in Hungary – How to Account for Orbán’s Fourth Consecutive Supermajority
Despite opposition forces running united against him, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has garnered more votes than ever in April’s election and clinched the fourth constitutional majority in a…
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How China Can End the War in Ukraine
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is in clear violation of principles that China has held sacrosanct for almost 60 years. There is no room for China to finesse that conclusion while remaining true to its…
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What’s Next for Russia?
As the world watches Russia’s dreadful military performance in Ukraine and wonders whether Vladimir Putin can survive such a strategic disaster, three questions inevitably arise: Can Ukraine win? Can…
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Who Are These People?
One may only guess whom Mr Putin is going to ‘liberate’ and ‘protect’—and from whom? Certainly not the Ukrainian soldiers who speak mostly Russian on the battlefield writes Mykola Riabchuk
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Madeleine Albright’s Potent Legacy for Women
By the time Madeleine Albright declared, in 2006, that “there is a special place in hell for women who don’t help other women,” her record spoke for itself. For Albright, this was not just a quip; it…
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Michał Tarnowski: Central Europe as a Niche for Social Entrepreneurship
Social entrepreneurship can be a successful business and positive change to society. It is a great idea for startup models in CE. Are entrepreneurs able to help solve social issues? How civil service…
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Xi Jinping Wants to Have Siberia for Dinner
Karel Schwarzenberg believes that the West made a mistake at the Bucharest NATO Summit in April 2008, when it failed to extend the Alliance’s Membership Action Plan to Georgia and Ukraine. Here is…
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If in the Next Few Days Central Europe Were to Shut Down, Western Europe Would Stop Functioning
The obstacles standing in the path of the economic growth of the region include the depleting labor market and the persistently low trust in the establishment, says Mojmir Hampl in an interview with…
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Despite Setbacks, Failures and Deeply Shameful Mistakes, Europe Still Wins
Is anybody in Warsaw really willing to die for France? At first glance: no. But in fact the feeling and understanding of threats from Russia, China and Islamic terrorism are common for all the 27 EU…
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Russian Schizophrenia
Our political elites have long yearned for authoritarianism. Or is it even more than that? Totalitarian tendencies? “In today’s Russia, people are told what to think. There is no freedom of opinion…

