Poetry can be dirty and screaming
Poet Xawery Stańczyk, Nike Literary Award 2014 nominee, talks to Justyna Czechowska. Justyna Czechowska: What does a poetry debut mean today? How is it different from, say, Marcin Świetlicki’s...
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European commuters
The Viennese in Bratislava Nobody knows how many Viennese live in Bratislava, but locals are sure that hundreds have settled in the city in recent years, at least judging by the growing number of cars...
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Forum Alpbach: a neutral platform and unique host
An interview with Philippe Narval, managing director of the European Forum Alpbach. Visegrad Insight: What is European Forum Alpbach today and what will it become under your leadership? Philippe...
View ArticleInternational security is a fragile concept
In November 2013 Ukraine was peacefully preparing to sign the Association Agreement with the European Union at the Vilnius summit. Back then it would have probably been considered an absolute...
View ArticleOn the path to Europe
An interview with Leonid Kravchuk, the first President of Ukraine. Forgetting the current situation in Ukraine, can you recall the beginning of the 1990s? What Ukraine did you want to see when you...
View ArticleNothing new in the East?
Hungary’s Prime Minister, Viktor Orbán possesses the rare gift to generate publicity with almost every public appearance. But after four years of permanent verbal wars against opposition in Hungary and...
View ArticleThe V4′s greatest existential threat
Reading the headlines or listening to politicians, one might be misled to believe that an imminent Russian invasion is the biggest existential threat to the Visegrad countries. In fact, a much greater,...
View ArticleNominations open for the New Europe 100 list
Nominations open for Central and Eastern European innovators, movers, and shakers for the New Europe 100 list. Res Publica together with Google and the Visegrad Fund, and in cooperation with the...
View ArticleIn defense of decadent Europe
Raymond Aron’s book In Defense of Decadent Europe was published in 1977. It was a time of pervasive pessimism and doubt about the future of both democracy and Europe. European economies had been...
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The next step for contemporary art in CEE
Around the fall of the Berlin Wall, many Eastern European heavy-weight thinkers thought than post-modernism was a brand new paradigm for art and even society in the new united Western world. Then after...
View ArticleGetting closer: the V4 and LAC
After years of embracing a foreign-policy approach focused on the European Union and its immediate neighbours, the V4 states are slowly reassessing their policies and relations with regions other than...
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My Friend the Enemy
An interview with Wanda Koscia, director and producer of the documentary film “My Friend the Enemy.” Summer 2013, western Ukraine. The film crew joins a group of Poles on a trip to Volhynia, Ukraine,...
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On the edge of Europe’s boundary
The portals of the legendary West have opened wide, and for a moment we thought we had stepped into the light. But we soon found out that although we’d like to have everything they have in the West, we...
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Always the same crop
In the second of three parts, Hungarian poet János Háy argues that the culture of everyday life in Hungarian villages has become more and more paltry; there is no common labor that formerly brought...
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Our illusions
The Russian model of development based on the sale of raw materials has no future anymore and has to be changed. So Putin is now changing it. The West, in particular Europe, still believes that Putin...
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The golden portal is wide open
In the last of three articles, János Háy argues that the most flexible stratum of the country has fled beyond the borders. And within the borders, the talented are dwindling. The portal wings of the...
View ArticleDivided more than united?
The current conflict over Ukraine has quickly escalated into a matter of geopolitical importance. Cornered by the events and pushed into assuming a position, the European Union has officially responded...
View ArticleThe return of the Alliance?
From 4 to 5 September, the Welsh city of Newport hosted the 26th NATO summit. This came amidst concern and uneasiness caused by the further escalation of the conflict in the eastern Ukraine as Russia...
View ArticleThe Baltic media and local Russian audiences
An interview with Hans Luik, an Estonian media tycoon and the main shareholder of DELFI, a major Internet portal in Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania providing daily news. Visegrad Insight: Could you...
View ArticleScottish independence and the Polish vote
Whichever way the referendum in Scotland is decided, things will never been the same again. The often uneasy relationship between nationalist and unionized Scots has seldom filtered as far south as...
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