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From Golden Hands to Golden Heads 1|2017 1(10)|2017 ISSN 2084-8250 | GBP€4.99 | EURO€6.00 | PLN 16.00 From golden hands to golden FOLLOW US @VISEGRADINSIGHT heads www.visegradinsight.eu ISSN 2084-8250 10 The future of prosperity in Central Europe 9 772084 825077 VI 10 cover.indd 1 10.05.2017 12:09 WOJCIECH PRZYBYLSKI MARTA POŚLAD Res Publica, Chairman, Google, Head of CEE Public Policy Visegrad Insight, Editor-in-chief @MartaPoslad @wprzybylski Teams and individuals listed Today is already tomorrow – on New Europe 100 are the best New Europe 100 challengers are examples how digital empowerment the proof that the future can be helps social and economic growth driven by great people DANUTA DOBRZYŃSKA-SCHIMMER ADAM MALCZAK NE100 Project manager Google, CEE Public Policy UPCOMING @NewEurope100 @AdamMalczak 2017 Through this project we met The community of New Europe 100 fantastic people and were amazed is perhaps the most vibrant digital by their big ideas. Already in crowd I have ever encountered in my 2014 we knew the number of our professional career THEY DESIGN CARS AND ROBOTS. THEY RE-INVENT BUSINESSES challengers will grow exponentially AND CITIES. THEY TRANSFORM SMALL COMMUNITIES AND WHOLE COUNTRIES. THEY ALL USE DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES TO CHALLENGE BEATA JACZEWSKA HENRY FOY STATUS QUO. AND THEY ALL COME FROM CENTRAL AND EASTERN International Visegrad Fund, Director Financial Times EUROPE. @BeataJaczewska @HenryJFoy Visegrad Group needs to bring The project is intended to raise the forward creative ideas, challenging profile of world-leading innovation innovations and to have courage to in emerging Europe and to build challenge the status quo. That’s what connections among those who are New Europe 100 list is all about leading that drive Read more www.ne100.org RES PUBLICA FOUNDATION and in the special report of The Financial Times The world is governed by ideas. We are concerned with those that determine the shape of tomorrow. Our flagship publications are Res Publica Nowa a journal on politics www.publica.pl/english Visegrad Insight Cities Magazine and culture published a magazine with focus respublicanowa since 1979 on Central Europe on urban issues VI 10 cover.indd 2 10.05.2017 12:09 B:430 mm T:420 mm S:400 mm TYTUŁ DZIAŁU ROZWINIĘCIE TEMATU IT’S NOT THE 70s ANYMORE. INTRODUCING THE ONLY MISSILE DEFENSE SYSTEM THAT CAN PROTECT POLAND TODAY AND TOMORROW. B:290 mm S:260 mm T:280 mm T:280 INTRODUCING THE WONDER TECHNOLOGY OF THE 70s. Human Error is a Thing of the Past With the revolutionary new XJ8-C Series mainframe computer, you can get results of complex calculations faster, easier, and more accurately than with hand plots. Curve fi tting, equations, roots of polynomials, calibration curves—nothing is too diffi cult for the hair-splitting accuracy of the XJ8-C. And with its cutting edge digital display, data and column numbers are directly readable, so any keypunch operator can learn this powerful machine in minutes. Don’t let technological progress pass you by! Call for a free demonstration today or send your purchase order to any PAST Comps, Inc. and Service offi ce (located in major European cities). Or for a full brochure, write to Obsoleteka 76, 00-661 Warsaw, Poland. LOCKHEED MARTIN MBDA MISSILE SYSTEMS 2 RELIKT Komp, Inc. VISEGRAD INSIGHT 1 (10) | 2017 FS:197 mm FS:197 mm F:210 mm F:210 mm Ad #: M17LM023_29 Bleed: 430 mm x 290 mm AD: None Headline: Cud Technologiczny... 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Human Error is a Thing of the Past With the revolutionary new XJ8-C Series mainframe computer, you can get results of complex calculations faster, easier, and more accurately than with hand plots. Curve fi tting, equations, roots of polynomials, calibration curves—nothing is too diffi cult for the hair-splitting accuracy of the XJ8-C. And with its cutting edge digital display, data and column numbers are directly readable, so any keypunch operator can learn this powerful machine in minutes. Don’t let technological progress pass you by! Call for a free demonstration today or send your purchase order to any PAST Comps, Inc. and Service offi ce (located in major European cities). Or for a full brochure, write to Obsoleteka 76, 00-661 Warsaw, Poland. LOCKHEED MARTIN MBDA MISSILE SYSTEMS RELIKT Komp, Inc. 3 FS:197 mm FS:197 mm F:210 mm F:210 mm Ad #: M17LM023_29 Bleed: 430 mm x 290 mm AD: None Headline: Cud Technologiczny... 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H. Krzeczkowskiego Gałczyńskiego 5, 00-362 Warsaw, Poland 0048 22 826 05 66, [email protected] ORDERS AND INQUIRIES: [email protected] WEBPAGE www.visegradinsight.eu Cover by Paweł Kuczyński Visegrad Insight is an analysis and opinion journal led by accomplished editors from the Visegrad Group countries: the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia. Its aim is to provide a platform for high profile debate on the perspectives and challenges for cooperation of the Central European governments, business and communities. ThoughT provoking EDITORIAL The V4 economies have muddled through the last few years of the financial crisis, but they are now short of the social energy needed to bounce back to the previous levels Lasting of growth. A diminishing trust in the rule of law, corruption, the active measures taken by Russia as well as the disappointing levels of public and civic participation, all are predicaments that must be addressed in the new strategies of economic growth trust of Central Europe. is earned, The Czech, Hungarian, Polish and Slovak economies are growing steadily but not as much as ten years ago when GDP was 7-10% higher. Today, the V4 grows only at the not bought pace of Sweden and just a bit more than Germany. That means it is not catching up. PIOTR BEKAS The current political risks – including the ever-more polarised public opinion, the low level of social capital, Brexit, the Russian threat and the abuse of democratic legit- imacy for personal gains – are like millstones around our necks. In a way, it is a mira- cle the region is staying afloat with the speed of the geo-political and socio-economic currents being what they are, and the burdens we carry with us. In the end, the region may abandon the grand narrative of transformation, which would confirm the theory of the looming middle income trap. Fortunately, the ambi- tion to finish higher in the race has not yet faded away. In order to succeed, it is not enough to have more effective supply chains for exports; breaking through the middle income trap requires deeper impulses. The recent Legatum Institute Central and Eastern Europe Prosperity Report shows that the region requires a serious investment of social capital. This resource is cer- tainly not cheap and no less volatile.
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