populism

Together with the Austrian Society for European Politics, the Center for European Neighborhood Studies at the Central European University Budapest, the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Ljubljana and GLOBSEC Policy Institute in Bratislava we jointly launched a project with the goal to examine why political and societal actors resort to an “anti-European” rhetoric. The final report from the project is now available.

We would like to cordially invite you to the debate with Thierry Chopin and Ondřej Houska on the topic of populism in Europe. The debate will take place in the French Institute in Prague on 4th of October at 6pm.

Our Rachel Warren analyzes in her latest blog the rise of populist tendencies in European politics.

Our Christian Kvorning Lassen commented on the differences between the natures of populisms in individual countries.

We would like to cordially invite you to the debate with Daniel Cohn-Bendit titled "From an uprising Europe to a fearful one?" which will take place on April 29, 2018 at 20.00 in Václav Havel Library in Prague.

An extensive research of public opinion in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Austria, Slovakia and Slovenia showed, that a considerable portion of Central Europeans believe, that the EU is treating them unfairly. Still, the wish to remain, and want strong leaders and a homogenous society.

Our Martin Michelot was interviewed for Info.cz about Orbáns systematic dismantling of democracy.

Our Vladimír Bartovic commented for the Slovak journal Nový Čas on Viktor Orban's victory in the parliamentary elections and his future plans.

Our Martin Michelot commented for Challenges.fr, on the situation of increasing populism in the east, particularly in Hungary and Poland.

Vít Havelka for ČRo Plus commented on the topic of our debate 'Nationalistic populism and its reception in central Europe'

In cooperation with Central European University, GLOBSEC Policy Institute, Austrian Society for European Politics and University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Social Sciences we would like to cordially invite you to the conference on the topic of nationalistic populism and its reception in Central Europe.

The migration crisis has been and still is a dominant issue within European politics. The European solution based on the solidarity principle was the refugee redistribution quota. In opposing to this plan, the V4 became a symbol of non-solidarity in Europe.