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Experts Warn of Consequences to U.S.-Russian Relations from Recent Crackdown on Opposition
WASHINGTON – Thirty-seven former U.S. government officials, human rights and democracy advocates, and Russia experts warned Wednesday that the [...]
Syndrome of Astherix
A settlement of Gauls,in which Astherix used to live, was surrounded by four fortified camps of Roman leggionaires. Leggionaires hardly left their fortresses, because they were afraid of bumping into the Gauls, overindulged with the magical drink that was giving them a magical superhuman, power. In short, the whole service of every next shift was [...]
The Strasbourg Court Is Beguiling Our Children!
How nice it is to be the judge of the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg – only obvious cases! The case brought in 2002 by the Grzelak family against Poland, concerning the lack of promised ethics lessons for the pupils who do not attend religion classes, was easy. There is no doubt that [...]
Ambivalent consequences of Ukrainian presidential elections.
Ukraine got stuck somewhere between liberal democracy and authoritarianism, which is identified with the era of Leonid Kuchma rule. It suffers – and the last elections have not changed anything– from a syndrome “disabled pluralism”, characteristic for hybrid form of political regime.
Choice made by Ukrainians on 7th February, sparks and for a long time will [...]
Thou shall not copy
Nobel Prize in Economics was given to scientists arguing that there are no simple solutions ensuring effectiveness of companies. Managers cannot thoughtlessly copy solutions from their competitors, and the state should create conditions giving them the freedom of action.
This year, in October, the Nobel Committee awarded the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory [...]
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Ukraine – neither make nor break
After 2000, Ukrainian GDP increased up to 7 percent per year. In Kiev the house, service and trading building industry flourished, although per capita GDP by 2008 has not reached yet the level before the transformation; in comparison to 1990 it was lower by 25 percent. The capital was vibrant with the cultural and social [...]
Security is integration. Call for European army.
United Europe will only be secure if my generation, which has never experienced war, suffering or hunger, is strongly committed to European integration. And my generation has a chance to extend this cooperation model far beyond Western Europe, perhaps even to the whole of the European continent.
The world in which we formulate our policies [...]
Van Rompuy: Much ado about what?
Yesterday’s appointment of the President of the European Council and the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy was truly disappointing. Worse than that – it is a genuine manifestation of “Euro-bureaucracy” in its worst form. Another backstage compromise, another decision that has nothing to do with courage and ambitious [...]
New deals – interview with Alexander Graf Lambsdorff
I have met with Alexander Graf Lambsdorff (FDP), German MEP and vice-chairman of ALDE [Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe] shortly after the end of the Strasbourg session of the European Parliament, in the end of November 2009, in his Brussels based parliamentary office. Despite the travel fatigue he came specially to share with [...]
The minister of foreign affairs of democratic Poland.
The example of Bronisław Geremek proves the saying that: “prophet is not without honor save in his own country”. In Poland professor Geremek was perceived as a very controversial person: as a historian, an opposition member and a politician. He stemmed from a certain generation. He survived Warsaw Ghetto where he witnessed horrible things. It [...]
