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E15.cz: Analysis: Less anti-EU rhetoric and distance from Orbán. The substance of foreign policy remains

October 22, 2021

Zdeněk Beranek, Director of the EUROPEUM Institute for European Policy, commented for the news portal E15 on the future direction of Czech foreign policy towards the European Union. Beránek does not expect a significant change in attitude towards the EU and expects the anti-Brussels rhetoric to cease with the new government. On the other hand, relations with problematic EU members such as Poland and Hungary will weaken.

ČT24: Uniting the Hungarian opposition

October 18, 2021

The director of the Europeum Institute for European Policy, Zdeněk Beránek, spoke live on ČT24 about uniting the Hungarian opposition.

Impact of New Technologies on International Relations: Digital Threats to Democracy

October 06, 2021

We would like to invite you to the debate "Impact of New Technologies on International Relations: Digital Threats to Democracy". The debate will take place online on the 13th of October at 10:30am at the Facebook page Think Visegrad in Brussels.

BLOG: Overcoming naivety: the protection of the rule of law in a post-pandemic Union

August 19, 2021

Rose Hartwig-Peillon writes in her blog about the protection of the rule of law in the post-pandemic Union.

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Think Visegrad Fellowship offer: Call for proposals 2021

July 07, 2021

The Think Visegrad platform, which brings together think tanks from the Visegrad countries, including the EUROPEUM Institute for European Policy, is offering 8 visiting fellowships to non-Visegrad expert fellows for the period Autumn/Winter of 2021. The duration of fellowships varies from 6 to 8 weeks (based on agreement with the hosting institute).

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Blesk: Epicentre: Zeman's outrageous insults of transgender people. And why hasn't the Czech Republic stood up for homosexuals?

June 29, 2021

The new Hungarian legislation has provoked a stormy reaction from the EU leadership. It bans education about sexual minorities in schools. However, the Czech Republic is one of the countries that has so far refused to join in the criticism of Hungary. In an interview with CNN Prima News on Sunday, President Miloš Zeman criticised women's political rights activists, the Me Too movement against sexual harassment and sexual minority events such as Prague Pride. His words that he finds transgender people "truly disgusting" have already gone around the world. Is the Czech Republic a progressive and liberal country, as Prime Minister Andrej Babiš claims? What are the implications of the condemnatory words of the head of state? These were the topics of Tuesday's Epicentre with Vladimír Bartovic, director of the EUROPEUM Institute for European Policy.

ČT24: Critisism of the Hungarian law against LGBT

June 24, 2021

The director of the EUROPEUM Institute for European Policy, Vladimír Bartovic, was a guest on Studio ČT24. He commented on the EU's approach to the forthcoming Hungarian law against LGBT.

POLICY PAPER: 100 days of Biden’s new transatlantic strategy – where does Central and Eastern Europe stand?

April 12, 2021

In her policy paper, our research fellow Danielle Piatkiewicz provides an in-depth review of President Biden’s first 100 days in office. Piatkiewicz particularly examines Biden's new transatlantic strategy and how it affects the Central and Eastern Europe region.

"Europe will be made through crises": the limits to the Monnet-Schuman approach to European construction

March 30, 2021

Rose Hartwig-Peillon analyses Monnet-Schuman's saying regarding to European construction through crises in view to pandemic of covid-19, vaccines and European recovery plan.

IDM: Brexit – A mess in the institutional EU Framework?

March 25, 2021

Our research fellow Danielle Piatkiewicz was a guest on the IDM Vienna podcast. The main topic of the podcast, which focuses on the Central Europe, was Brexit and the EU institutional framework.