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Bringing together people interested in the CE countries • Discussions, Analyses, Insights • 4th March 2023• Like/RT ≠ Endorsement

[CYTOWSKI & PARTNERS @Cytlaw]

Our partner @tcytowski is participating in @Ceconference22 at London School Economics supporting young 🇨🇿Czechs and 🇸🇰Slovaks. Go CEE and good to see so many friends and clients. #cee #czechrepublic #slovakia

[Věra Jourová @VeraJourova]

Today, we send a notification letter to Hungary formally activating the budget conditionality procedure.

We identified issues that might be breaching #RuleOfLaw in HU and affect the EU budget.

Hungary will have to reply to our concerns and propose remedial measures.

[Samuel Ramani @SamRamani2]

Retired Colonel Mikhail Supotnitsky from the Russian Ministry of Defence is fanning the flames of this conspiracy. Poland joins Germany as an accomplice in the Kremlin's bioweapons accusations.

[Yevhen Perebyinis @YPerebyinis]

В російського посольства у Празі змінилася адреса - вулиця Українських Героїв.

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Our last panel of the day is over. We hope you found this discussion insightful!

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Introducing our last panel of the day: EU and the V4. Some interesting quotes from our speakers:👇

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“Let us keep politicians and ideologues on hold and let us protect politics from being perverted like by Orbán in 2014.” @JiriPriban

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@JiriPriban on the unity of the V4: “We have to define what we have in common. Let us not allow Orbán to steal the spirit of Visegrád.”

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@MSimecka to the question of the potential “toxicity” of the V4: “A lot depends on the elections in Hungary and whether the Polish government will insist on destroying the independence of the judiciary. (...) The V4 stepping up to Russian aggression can be just an episode.”

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Does the V4 still have a common purpose? “In terms of cooperation, we don’t count each other so much, in terms of our development, we are not united either.” @KarolinaZby

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@MSimecka on European integration and the future of the EU: “The European Union can be born as a superpower in front of our eyes, [but] the European integration cannot work if the member states are not liberal democracies.”

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@MSimecka on what the Ukrainian crisis means for our future: “It changes everything, whatever the outcome. National politics will be taking place in the shadow of the Russian threat.”

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@JiriPriban highlights the important role of constitutionalism in achieving the rule of law and emphasises that we “cannot achieve anything with the principles of rule of law without an enforcement mechanism.”

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“Freedom is the ability to say that 2+2=4. If you live in a country where you cannot call a war a war, you live in a tyranny.” @JiriPriban

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„Soft power can have many levels. It all depends on the perspective of the receiver, the target.“ @JonasSyrovatka

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Jonáš Syrovátka opens the workshop on Soft Power:„I would love to not be here discussing this topic with the current developing situation.“

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So what is really soft power? „Well, first of all, really complex issue.(…) It's mostly about being seen as attractive, role model state worth following.“ @JonasSyrovatka

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That is it for this roundtable! We hope you found this discussion interesting and insightful!

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Introducing the speakers for our Research and Development Roundtable: Radek Spicar @R_Spicar_SP_CR, Gábor Takács-Carvalho, Jakub Dovcík @jakubdovcik. Some insightful quotes: 👇

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@R_Spicar_SP_CR “the time has come to the second economic transformation: we have to (1) stop manufacturing for others and create local brands, (2) strenghten domestic capital, and (3) robotise the manufacturing industry.”

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To help transition to innovative economy: @R_Spicar_SP_CR emphasised capital market, @jakubdovcik highlighted the role of the rule of law (especially the business law) and Gábor Takács-Carvalho emphasised greater flexibility in the usage of funds