Audios
Central Europe’s ‘Lucky’ Democracy | 6 October 2022
Michal Kopecek in an interview with the Visegrad Insight Podcast
On October, 6th 2022 the European Political Community met in Prague. The Visegrad Insight Podcast Team took this event to talk with Michal Kopecek about Europe’s “Lucky” Democracy. Therein, he analyzes the ‘luck’ of the Czech democratic experiment compared to other Central European States and explores the meaning of the populist upsurge in Czechia.
Listen to the Podcast on the Visegrad Insight Podcast Website here.
Warsaw Expert Forum | 29 September 2022
The first Expert Forum, which took place on 29 September 2022 at Dom Spotkań z Historią in Warsaw, focuses on symptoms of the current democratic crisis in Europe and asks for its roots in history. Historians and Lawyers are haunted by the question, how main actors who once fought on the forefront for liberalism and democracy in their countries are now on the contrary side. The group of experts analyzes the relation between the rule of law and the economy, and highlights differences especially of recent Hungarian and Polish experiences in a broader European context.
Discussants are the Professor of comparative constitutional law Renáta Uitz (CEU Democracy Institute), the political scientist and doctoral researcher in Poland Edit Zgut-Przybylska (European Studies Unit in IFIS PAN), the lawyer specializing in constitutional law and human rights Professor Adam Bodnar, and the Associate Professor for Sociology Michal Kaczmarczyk (University of Gdansk). Historian Michal Kopeček moderates the Forum.