Estonia’s drive to reinvent itself as a digital nation— nicknamed “e-Estonia”—is in fact a mixture of a number of vectors, lacking the ultimate coherence of a single vision. Estonia’s experiment with e-government contains both elements of visionary advances and a potential cautionary tale in the making.

What’s happening in the global economy? Two different visions of economic transformation reshape the world as digitalization revolutionizes business.

The government of Prime Minister Beata Szydło may count on the support of other Visegrad Group governments in the implementation of crucial projects related to security issues, energy, transport infrastructure, or refugee policy. However, the V4 countries will not be PiS’s allies in its dispute with the European Commission on the Constitutional Court. On the…

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Andrea Wulf, The Invention of Nature, Alexander von Humboldt’s New World. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2015. 473 pp.

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Dennis Marks, Wandering Jew: The Search for Joseph Roth, Notting Hill Editions, 2016.

Let us consign the notion of Central Europe to the scrapheap. It imposes on us the idea of a fictitious historical and cultural community that does not match the reality of the region.

Arriving in China, you experience a sense of déja vu: key-rings, portraits, images, quotes on large banners, billboards. Except that their hero is not, as formerly, Chairman Mao, but the current leader, Xi Jinping. The whole China is reading bland works of the new Chairman and reigning in the media is a song called: “If…

No European nation has benefited as much from the abolition of custom checks between European Union states as Germans. Lately, however, they have been increasingly questioning not only the free movement of people but also the principle of free trade as such.

During the transition, societies of Central Europe were faced with a double challenge: to transform their economies from centrally planned to capitalist ones and at the same time subject them to the shock of the digital revolution.

The Central European policy of using cheap labor as an instrument of growth is reaching its limits.

Out of the eleven countries of the region which are members of the European Union only the Polish government declares that it does not intend to join the eurozone.

At 10 pm on Saturday, 5 March, I was standing in a café in the center of Bratislava in front of a huge TV screen together with some hundred friends who, like me, did not want to be alone as an apocalypse was quite likely to descend on us. Our fears proved right: The exit…

Nationalism and xenophobia are on the rise in Central Europe

In terms of a successful integration of Muslims and of the historical heritage of coexistence with the word of Islam, it is the European East which could quite often serve as a source of inspiration for the West.

Last year it seemed as if the AfD would quickly disintegrate completely. But then mass immigration suddenly became a major problem.

An Interview with Mykola Riabchuk by Filip MemchesThe West turning a blind eye on the imperial ambitions of Moscow only emboldens it—says Mykola Riabchuk interviewed by Filip Memches.