European debates

For the third time, we have had the pleasure of hosting you on a common journey through the most current and important topics that Poland, Europe and the World are currently struggling with.

Where is the world headed? How can citizens shape their social, economic and environmental circumstances? How can Poland make its mark on a changing Europe? Will we be able to stop the climate change? These are just some of the questions we will attempt to answer, hopefully with your help, in order to better understand global problems that impact is in our daily life.

 We kindly invite our readers to get acquainted with the new articles published on the German-Polish European Blog. Which steps have been and still can be taken by the European Commission towards the increasing number of member states, which turn their backs from the liberal democracy? 

Three days of intense debates, workshops, a book presentation, discovering the European heritage of the city of Gdańsk – this wide range of activities was proposed to 150 participants of the “Europe with a view to the future” Forum that took place on 28-30 May in the European Solidarity Centre in Gdańsk, Poland.

We are back with our German-Polish European Blog! The aim of the blog, launched with our partner WiseEuropa, is to present the most current international topics from German and Polish perspective. 

German-Polish European Dialogue summarizes the texts posted on the German-Polish European Blog, run by WiseEuropa with the cooperation of Heinrich Böll Foundation in Warsaw since June 2017. 

Thirty years after the Velvet Revolution, the atmosphere in Czech society is poisonous. Many who followed the course of the Czech presidential elections during the past few weeks in detail must feel they are trapped in a nightmare.

The theme of this year’s World in Focus: Warsaw International Gathering was the future, both of that big, remote world and the changes that await us in our immediate urban environment. 

Read further articles on the German-Polish European Blog. Here, experts from both countries present their differing outlooks on otherwise shared European values. Marek Cichocki, professor at Collegium Civitas, and Josef Janning, Director of the ECFR Berlin office, explain the sources and scale of differences in how EU principles are interpreted and warn against a lack of dialogue to address them.

Sixty years after the signing of the Treaties of Rome, Europe finds itself at a crossroads. Understanding what this wake-up call means for a liberal Europe was the subject of discussion at an international conference titled “Moving Forward with Europe!”.