Ukrainian refugees as a share of the population:
🇪🇪 - 5%
🇨🇿 - 4.5%
🇵🇱 - 4%
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• How will the #EuropeanUnion approach the #EasternPartnership countries in the upcoming decade?
summary of the #EaP2030 #EasternEuropeanFutures report in ⤵️
• #Moldova’s dependence on Russian energy resources represents an obvious internal vulnerability of the state.
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• Centralization of Media • Scenario 1⃣ from the latest report on Information Sovereignty in #CEE, based on the #media freedom declining trend in #V4 & estimating the consequences of gov't takeover of #information sphere. Full report ➡️ bit.ly/3aJEZCy
The new Polish-German rapprochement has implications that go far beyond the two countries’ borders. visegradinsight.eu/polands-new-po for #FuturesForum
One cannot underestimate the element of joyful disobedience with which middle-aged Central Europeans sit behind their computers to politically rebel. visegradinsight.eu/joyful-disinfo #DemocraCE
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If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck and says it's not a duck it must be a Russian duck
On this day, 15 years ago all 4 #VisegradGroup countries, #CzechRepublic, #Hungary, #Poland, #Slovakia, as part of the "A10" countries joined the #EuropeanUnion creating the largest single expansion of the EU. It was marked by public celebrations at border crossings and capitals.
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#EU institutions should consider ways to distribute at least parts of their subsidies directly to democratic local authorities - writes @FerencLaczo visegradinsight.eu/asymmetrical-s #DemocraCE #RuleOfLaw #Hungary
• How will the #EU approach the Eastern Partnership countries in the upcoming decade? in coop w/ describe possible scenarios & suggest an optimal approach.
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🎙Podcast: Why Current School Protests in Hungary Make a Difference w/ and out now!
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• We’re at #CampusPolska where the day started with a discussion on how to defend #Europe’s values with Sławomir Sierakowski, , Tatiana Niadbaj, Olga Kovalkova and with giving a video introduction
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"Migrants are being accepted and hosted by families in Poland—people give their homes, give shelter under their own roof. But this is only the first wave—the worst is yet to come."
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Hungary and Poland aren’t democratic. They’re authoritarian.
Central Europe’s populist revolt against the EU isn’t about safeguarding the West. It’s about rolling back freedoms and cozying up to Russia
#Hungary: 70% of Hungarian Academy budget centralised under direct control of the ministry. Freedom of research in jeopardy.
Read the new #DemocraCE article by , "Orbán’s Next Victim: the Hungarian Science Academy": visegradinsight.eu/orbans-next-vi @milann_sk
• The VIB Discussion on the latest #EasternEuropeanFutures & #EaP2030 report has just finished. Special thanks to & for the co-hosting & the insights. Stay tuned at for more events and analyses.
• What could happen to the #EuropeanUnion’s Eastern neighbourhood in the decade to come?
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Great Breakfast discussion on #EaP2030 and the #EasternEuropeanFutures report with a record online audience number. Special thanks to the speakers and the co-organizers!
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• 3 Seas, 4 Scenarios, 9 Recommendations, 5 years perspective
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.: Compared to 2010, the support for public media among Latvian population has increased by 12.2 percentage points. The population is convinced that other media would not be able to substitute the public service media visegradinsight.eu/making-a-decis #DemocraCE
In the #EU, the yawning gap in #competitiveness and #innovation is between its four most competitive economies and the “laggards,” consisting of the #V4, the rest of Central Europe and most of Southern Europe. in bit.ly/2VJOygw
• For the countries in the Eastern Partnership, the big question will now be how much their integration with #Europe can play a role in the recovery? in ➡️ bit.ly/2w9yjz0 #EaP2030 #EasternEuropeanFutures
• Civic Emancipation • Scenario 4⃣ of #EasternEuropeanFutures report: Part of a global wave, EaP countries face rising citizens' demands for stronger #democracy, #RuleOfLaw and resilience to malign influences. Full report ➡️ bit.ly/2IPcVBF #EaP2030
• Anton Bendarzsevszkij on the most recent report on the #EasternEuropeanFutures #EaP2030 ➡️ bit.ly/2yQUJWz. First published in (in Hungarian).
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The EU Needs the Rule of Law in Poland More Than Ever by
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👉Ukraine's history with China never incorporated Taiwan. After the Russian invasion, Beijing turned its head while Taipei lent a hand.👈
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#EU would come to a standstill with the policy of sanctions. Those were situationally imposed sanctions for the sake of sanctions".
A new #DemocraCE article on #Belarus - Interview with Anais Marin - available at visegradinsight.eu/extensive-corr
Kyiv Schools Will Not Teach Russian Making Room for English by Oksana
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. wrote a very important text on disinformation in Central Europe 30 years after the regime change.
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Happy national day, #Hungary! Köszöntjük Magyarországot nemzeti ünnepe alkalmából!
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Conference: State of Hungary A week-long online conference Feb 28 - 3 March 2022
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🎙Podcast: Avoiding a Forever War in Ukraine w/ on the idea of a ‘long war’ in Ukraine risks becoming a self-fulfilling prophecy
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It’s now clear: The most dangerous threats to the West are not external
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The Russian Invasion of Ukraine—How Nine Central and Eastern European Countries Will Respond
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Polish politicians must remember that they are dealing with a rather peculiar set of political partners.
Read the new article by for the #DemocraCE project about the embattled Czech Prime Minister and his relationships with Poland and Russia: visegradinsight.eu/troubled-water
Shifting is always possible between regimes: a democratic system can also be transformed into an autocratic system & reverse is also true as we saw in 1989 across Central Europe for part of #DemocraCE project by visegradinsight.eu/democracy-a-go
• The Roaring Call for Civic Emancipation in Russia & Eastern Europe #EaP2030
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The youth are less idealistic and more pragmatic, less concerned about fighting with challenges from the past and more willing to solve real problems.
Read "Civil Society is Ageing" by at visegradinsight.eu/civil-society- #DemocraCE #CentralEuropeanFutures
The system of agricultural subsidies was taken over by mobsters and blackmailers at our Central European neighbours. How high a price will the Polish farmer have to pay for it?
visegradinsight.eu/cut-off-the-ol #DemocraCE
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• Our Breakfast Discussion on #EasternEuropeanFutures #EaP2030 is about to start! This time, in cooperation with .
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#Slovakia #DemocraCE Political mobilization of socialist nostalgia, the feeling of a lost paradise, is commonly used by populists. R.Fico excelled in this art w/ 2012 electoral slogan: People deserve certainty! visegradinsight.eu/the-collective In Slovak komentare.sme.sk/c/20868828/nos
The ‘Dialogue’ Between Belgrade and Pristina by Jovan Jovanovic
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The dialogue between Serbia and Kosovo has recently entered its twelfth year. Is it doomed to another long-term ‘provisional solution’?
What Orbán’s visit in White House means for #CentralEurope - explains #DemocraCE in Polish polityka.pl/tygodnikpolity - soon in English. Stay tuned
Turns out we had a timely launch 🚀 …
... on 18/3 the announced its new plan for Eastern Partnership beyond 2020
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The V/I Breakfast Discussion devoted to presidential elections in #Slovakia has started among our special guests: ambassadors, diplomats, experts and journalists led by @milann_sk
30 years ago, #4czerwca1989, the first partly free election took place in #Poland which in effect led to the overthrow of #communism in Central & Eastern Europe and paved the way for a peaceful transition to democracy. #30latWolności #swietowolnosciisolidarnosci
Moscow and Budapest are teaming up to spread their disinformation narratives. The implications for democratic security are alarming, writes Dorka Takácsy #DemocracyUnderThreat
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'The entire region is divided into six Euroregions, and a total budget for this territory is worth 40 million EUR'. Read the latest 'When a Border is not a Barrier' by as part of #DemocraCE at pos.li/2bq7ro
.: With #EuropeanRenaissance, calls for the consolidation of European integration around the eurozone, which should extend economic integration with tax harmonisation and the introduction of a European minimum wage': visegradinsight.eu/the-spectrum-o #DemocraCE
• Over the last two months we had seven launch events of our #EaP2030 #EasternEuropeanFutures report, attended by more than 300 participants!
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🎙Podcast: Ukraine’s Quest for Victory in a Race Against Time w/ and out now!
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Poland enjoys the greatest success in the V4. It is not the wealthiest country, but it started as the poorest visegradinsight.eu/central-europe
• Current #protests against total abortion ban in #Poland could be the defining moment for the political consciousness of the country’s youngest generation. Coarse #wypierdalac=fuck off and #jebacpis=fuck #PiS are banner slogans:
In #Estonia, as in elsewhere in Eastern Europe, oligarchs threaten #media independence. They have not succeeded – so far visegradinsight.eu/incendiary-rhe #DemocraCE
We bring together experts to work on scenarios for #EaP2030. Second day of the workshop in Tbilisi.
Learn more on the project:
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.: If we abstain from #ethnicity and #religion as the only vectors that define multicultural societies, we learn that we have always have been #multicultural".
Read a new article at visegradinsight.eu/visegrads-fear #DemocraCE
• V4 & #Nordic states cooperation. Connecting #V4 and other regional expert networks & researching potential for future #EU coalitions: - our new report for
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Aliaksei Kazharski: Those who are trying to keep the #Hungary government at bay (this includes the #EU), should clearly distinguish between ideology and democratic institutions and procedures". The full text read at visegradinsight.eu/illiberal-or-s #DemocraCE
The growing support for eurosceptics will mobilise pro-European parties for joint actions, which is why one should expect an enlargement of the grand coalition with the liberals from and ', - for #DemocraCE project. More at visegradinsight.eu/the-euroscepti
After 30 years, Bulgarian politics requires the reinvention of checks and balances, the division of powers and judiciary independence - writes visegradinsight.eu/patchy-democra
This year the negotiations about the next Multiannual Financial Framework (#MFF) will enter a critical moment.
Read the entire #report here: visegradinsight.eu/scenarios-for-
#FuturesForum #EUbudget
Support for Ukraine as Continuation of the Belarusian Revolution by Pavel Kotau
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Today, on #WomensDay New issue of V/I #WomenAreNATO is available to download and read at visegradinsight.eu/womenarenato/ Wonderful female leaders sharing their inspiring stories and analysing the world we live in! Executive editor: #InternationalWomensDay #IWD2019
Why No-Fly Zone Over Ukraine Is Needed Now
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• 🎙️Belarus – 1 year of (r)evolution – in this week's podcast we discuss perspectives for #Belarus' future with
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Hungary aims to coordinate more closely on refugee policy with Austria and Italy after elections there boosted anti-migrant parties, broadening an alliance of EU states focused on internal security
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15 February 1991 - creation of #VisegrádGroup #V4 - a cultural and political alliance of 4 #CentralEuropean states 🇨🇿 🇭🇺 🇵🇱 🇸🇰 for the purposes of advancing military, cultural, economic and energy cooperation with one another along with furthering their integration in the #EU.
• Malta’s population has a very high tolerance for #corruption within their state and if not for the EU, most likely there would be no justice (1/3) 🧵👇
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"Some politicians are trying to redefine what journalism is". - said in the interview with . "Essentially, they are trying to deny the role of the press as one of the most important estates of democracy" visegradinsight.eu/shooting-the-m #DemocraCE
EVENT: Future of 🇺🇦 Fellowship - The Untold Stories kick-off event w/ our three fellows Christine Karelska and Bohdan Bernatskyi
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• Over the last decade, #LGBTI-equality has become a benchmark of liberal democracies. Both autocracies and democracies use it to determine a country’s geopolitical orientation by 👉remybonny.com 👇
• Join us this Thursday, May 27 at 4PM CET/10AM ET for a discussion on CEE countries' policies towards #Israel with experts and .
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#Poland, one of #EU’s most homogenous countries, is becoming a country of immigration. It took in more workers from outside the EU in 2018 than any other country and is likely to have repeated the trick again in 2019.
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The #coronavirus map of #Europe makes one thing clear: the richer nations of western Europe have suffered more from the virus than countries in the eastern half of the #EU, almost without exceptions.
via: ➡️ bit.ly/3ddk7ou
Returnees would not agree to work for the minimum wage, but will instead create or embed themselves in new industries which will create different, higher added value jobs and will furthermore bring #West work culture. A new #DemocraCE artcile at visegradinsight.eu/a-call-from-ho #DemocraCE
Postmodern relativism is a dangerous tool in the hands of authoritarian regimes. One of the most vulnerable target group is the tech-savvy generation Z that is known to be “digitally native”.
A must-read analysis by #DemocraCE fellow visegradinsight.eu/postmodernism- #NATOversity
Sep 30-Oct 1 European #Futures Forum at in #Brussels: a special scenario-based report to be launched and the EU’s Multiannual Financial Framework to be discussed. Registration required: futuresforum.eu/event-register/ More information on the event: futuresforum.eu
The horrific crimes of the war are possible today because, in Russia-dominated Eastern Europe, the question of evil has been forgotten, writes .
*No paywall* - Click the link to read an essay by our new Future of Ukraine.👇
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"This bill goes further than that – it assumes the Poles’ complete innocence, framing them as the only guiltless nation in Europe. This is not the way to reclaim Poland’s collective dignity. All is not yet lost."
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How #Slovakia was able to flatten its curve comes down to more than just quick decision making and the widespread adoption of face masks. Perhaps the greatest lesson to be learned from Slovakia is of the value of leading from the front.
via:
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#V4 countries in the World Happiness Report 2019:
20 Czechia 🇨🇿
38 Slovakia 🇸🇰
40 Poland 🇵🇱
62 Hungary 🇭🇺
The full text of the report: s3.amazonaws.com/happiness-repo #InternationalDayOfHappiness @milann_sk
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20 Czechia
38 Slovakia
40 Poland
42 Lithuania
48 Romania
53 Latvia
55 Estonia
62 Hungary
68 Russia
79 Turkey
81 Belarus
90 Azerbaijan
97 Bulgaria
71 Moldova
116 Armenia
119 Georgia
133 Ukraine
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#Slovakia: 'Do we know enough about the country we live in?"
All for Jan: The year of magical thinking in Slovakia by Read more: spectator.sme.sk/c/20941311/all #DemocraCE #Kuciak #Visegrad
• Learn about the history and future of #V4 on its 30th Anniversary with former Slovak Ambassador Magdaléna Vášáryová &
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• EU Pivot to Moscow • Scenario 3⃣ of #EasternEuropeanFutures report: #EU reboots its relationship with #Russia at the expense of the EaP countries whose democratic reform and European integration stalls by 2030. Full report ➡️ bit.ly/2IPcVBF #EaP2030
• Protests in #Poland against further restrictions on abortion continue. Their female leaders called for the gov step-down and establishment of the Coordination Council, "just like in #Belarus". In this part of the world, revolution is female: visegradinsight.eu/women-belarus-
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• Starting Monday 15 March is hosting Transatlantic speakers who will be discussing the future of the Eastern Partnership.
Facing a sharp decline in financial support from the next #EUBudget, countries of Central Europe have found new opportunities in the "formerly-hostile" #environmentalpolicies. for bit.ly/2PtK89L #DemocraCE
According to Russian pro-government media, the #SlovakElections in February 2020 constituted a fundamental breakthrough from #Russia's perspective. Grigorij Mesežnikov in .
