On the 4th of May a round table on “Internationalization of the universities and the future of Forlì” was moderated by Roland Schenkel of the Swiss newspaper Neuer Züricher Zeitung. Continue
In current post I am presenting a number of opinions of global actors on a burning contemporary agenda (Libya case). Continue
Libya is a sovereign nation, is the Maghreb region country in the north of Africa and their internal affairs are none of someone’s business. Continue
The international Master of Arts in Interdisciplinary Research and Studies on Eastern Europe (MIREES) is a Second cycle Joint DegreeVytautas Magnus University at Kaunas, the Corvinus University of Budapest, and the Saint-Petersburg State University. The program is jointly carried out with the cooperation of the University of Ljubljana. Continue
The influence of a single party known as “United Russia” is great and overwhelming in Russia. It is seriously criticized for week and fragmented opposition. However, seems that the opposition on the 13th of December, 2010 got united under its new name “People’s freedom party”. Continue
Russian state was created in 862 after Christ when prominent European empires like Roman or Greek have already faced a serious downturn. In terms of historical scale Russia is believed to be born quite late. Continue
The Institute for the Central Europe and the Balkans on the 16th of December, 2010 has organized a collective brain-storm in Faenza, Italy. Professors from Greece, Bulgaria, Italy, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia and Slovenia were about to work out potential proposals for the Adriatic Ionic Initiative. As a result of the brain-storm, all these proposals will be transferred to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, to Mr.Franco Frattini for further actions. Continue
Department of Political Science at Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia, is accepting applications for 1 or 2 semester research visits from doctoral students and post-doctoral researchers. Continue
As a result of French and Dutch referendums, the Constitution was doomed to failure and the EU faced a serious institutional deadlock which lasted for 2,5 years till December 2007. Romano Prodi commented on this situation: «The Treaty gave Europe a number of instruments which till recent times didn’t exist. But there is no more a united spirit which could become a modus vivendi» This situation got resolved on the 13th of December 2007 when the Lisbon Treaty or the Reform Treaty was signed aiming at restitution of the Constitutional Treaty . Continue
In 2001 Silvio Berlusconi became a chairman of the Council of Ministers of Italy. Since that time and up to the 1st of July of the year 2003 when Italy became presiding over the EU – Belgium, Spain, Denmark and Greece were rotating in turn the EU chair. During their presidency four working programs were approved and main European priorities were highlighted, however, only Belgium presidency resulted in a new body creation that would reform the EU – the Convention. This body was chaired by the former French president Valery Giscard d’Estaing together with two deputies, Giuliano Amato and Jean-Luc Dehaene as well as member-states representatives. The Convention was aimed at a new treaty elaboration that was conditioned on by objective realia – without a new treaty the existence of the EU would be hardly possible especially after a large-scale EU enlargement in the year 2004. There was a necessity to fasten decision-making process as well. Continue