This
website is a forum for all those who
would like to invent themselves, their
communities, villages, cities, countries,
or their region: Central Europe.
STRATEGIES
How can the countries of Central Europe become successful in Europe and in the world? In which fields can they become centres of excellence? How can they become successful, respected and competitive countries in Europe and the world? What kind of strategies are needed to achieve this goal?
In June this year European Parliament elections will be held. As we face a dramatic financial and economical crisis, a world in peril and wars and conflicts around the globe, these elections are of great importance for the future of Europe.
We are witnessing the transformation of the naton state and the constitution of a hybrid state with hybrid competencies and scope. This is a hybrid that is neither fully private nor fully public, neither fully national nor fully global.
We should always keep in mind that the new media can also invent new ways to deceive and mislead through abuse and manipulation, promoting anti-cosmopolitan values and interests like nationalism, xenophobia and exclusion. New opportunities, challenges and responsibilities.
Analysing the Polish situation with regard to the Lisbon objectives of growth and employment, we see that although the Polish situation is by far the most difficult in this respect in the EU, there are certain phenomena that point to the right direction.
Changes are inevitable. Substantial renewal is needed within the circles of the Hungarian political class and the formal democratic institutions they run, shifting the intellectual and leadership paradigm and the perception of the scope of responsibilities.
The U.S. would like to see a world in which liberal economic principles, democratic political systems and strong civic societies prevail. In other words: the U.S. is interested in promoting globalization with its horizontal structures. This policy necessarily clashes with that of such (semi)-autocratic states such as Russia.
Since the time of the political transition social solidarity has suffered tremendous devastation. On the one side we see the winners of the transition process, while on the other side masses of people are falling by the wayside: Hungary has no middle-class in the Western European sense of the word.
There are three levels at which we must strengthen our identity: the level of the individual, the organic small communities and the European Union. Grassroots communities have to serve as the basic cells of a new identity.
After a Dutch and a French veto on the constitution,anti-enlargement sentiment is clearly on the rise within the EU. How far has Romania advanced on the way to being judgedworthy? - Gabriel Andreescu, one of Romania's best knownpolitical analysts, former president of the RomanianHelsinki Committee, was interviewed by Emese Farkas.
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