Moral of Dzurinda´s story
„Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico’s chances of winning a June 12 general election rose on Monday when his main rival, center-right ex-premier Mikulas Dzurinda, pulled out over accusations of money...
View ArticleNationalists are already winning
European nationalists are uniting – however paradoxical that might seem, they are building a coalition to crush the “Brussels monster”. The alliance created by French National Front and Dutch Party for...
View ArticleCohesion policy and macroeconomic conditionality
Discussions about the next EU multiannual budget, finally approved by the EP earlier this week, revolved around the available amounts, own resources and issues like flexibility and mid-term revision....
View ArticleDetest thy neighbour
Poles would do anything for a dime. Lithuanians are no better. They all keep together and rarely integrate. Romanians try to blend-in, but you let one of the in, and next month fifteen more would come....
View ArticleMein Land
Full opening of labour markets for citizens from Romania and Bulgaria stirred again a discussion on merits of migration. That could have been expected – similar thing happened in 2004 and 2007 when CEE...
View ArticleForecast for EC economic forecasts: A threefold error
At the end of this month, the European Commission will present its winter economic forecasts. We could expect that they will continue with its cautiously optimistic tone from the last autumn: “Eurozone...
View ArticleEP Elections in Slovakia: As low as it gets
One in eight Slovak citizens bothered to go to ballot box in the last EP elections. Turnout of 13.05 percent looks surprising even in the light of generally low citizens´ participation on the European...
View ArticleGreece vs. Eurozone: Why the “chicken game” model does not hold
It has become fanciful to see the current stand-off between the Greek Syriza-led government, and the Eurozone / EU as through the “game of chicken” model: a non-cooperative game with exclusive...
View ArticleThe Five Grave Errors Of The Slovak Government In The Refugee Crisis
In Central Europe, and Slovakia in particular, the current refugee crisis reveals an awful lot about the prevailing public mind-set and the nature of our political elites. Few of these revelations are...
View ArticleDropping the ballast
European Union is not sailing the waves of multiple crises particularly well. It is still floating, but just barely, patching things up and dropping the ballast. Last year, when the existence of...
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