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The financial collapse of 2008 forced Icelanders to reach for total revaluation of methods according to which the country has been run. The most revolutionary changes are of constitutional kind; they are to introduce new constitutional model. Where the road taken by Iceland will lead it? The very word “crisis” became meaningful in 2008 as [...]

Putin may only become the real alpha male when he reduces the bureaucratic omnipotence. He has to, just as Peter I once did, shave the boyars’ beards. Recent presidential elections in Russia only confirmed what had been expected. Having swept to a clear victory over the rivals in the first round, Vladimir Putin returns  to [...]

The far left candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon is well on the road to become the greatest revelation of the election. In a few weeks he has doubled his support, today it already amounts to 10-11 percent and it keeps growing. The dynamics of this increase resembles the one of 2007, when the centrist François Bayrou reached [...]

As we may infer from the latest comment of Paweł Świeboda, the head of demosEUROPA – Centre for European Strategy, we are facing a new stage in the European integration. After several years of hardship when economic crisis extorted makeshift actions and an appointment of permanent President of the European Council deprived European Commission of [...]

Marine Le Pen won’t have pleasant memories of the current election campaign. Less than two months before the election her ratings in polls go down and her campaign has reached an impasse. For this situation problems are blamed with collecting written support of at least 500 persons in a position of trust (e.g. mayors, members [...]

April 22nd and May 6th are those days when French will be choosing their next president. Two words are going to be prominent during the 2012 election campaign – crisis and style. French will expect from the candidates to have formulas for overcoming the economic stagnation and the improvement of living conditions.  Immigration and security, [...]

I am not deluded by the allegedly changing social situation in the Russian Federation. Extraordinarily as for the Russian standards anti-rule demonstrations did not change anything. Putin easily won the elections in the first round, he lived through one of the biggest crisis in his career and established his position as the head of the [...]

Putin’s choice: heavy industrial and military development On March 4, 2012, following just few hours after the preliminary results, workers of UralVagonZavod, Russia’s biggest producer of tanks and armored vehicles and the largest main battle tank manufacturer in the world, congratulated Vladimir Putin with a victory in the presidential race. Putin addressed tank factory workers [...]

On Saturday March 10, 2012 Smer (Social Democrats) won parliamentary elections in Slovakia receiving 44.41% of votes. It means that former Prime Minister Robert Fico is coming back to power, far more powerful than in the year 2006. The Slovak Spectator published today official results, confirmed by the Central Electoral Commission (ÚVK). Smer’s 44.41% means [...]

New, more radical actions of Lukashenko’s regime should move Belarus to the top priority place in Polish foreign policy. We need iron consistency. Resolute diplomatic steps should be combined with an effective information campaign directed at Belarusians and with breaking any talks with Lukashenko. For Poland objective number one should be to persuade the European [...]