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VI-Vol-5-Web.Pdf | ISSN 2084-8250 | £4.99 | PLN 16.00 1(5) 2014 MAGAZINE BY WWW.VIsEgRadINsIghT.Eu 2013 > Approved Grant and Mobility Projects Grants Scholarships Residencies 2014 project funding| Central Europe. Granted.The International Visegrad Fund supports the development of civil society and contacts between people in the Visegrad region and other countries in Central Europe, the Western Balkans and countries of the Eastern Partnership. With the annual budget of €8 million (as of 2014), the fund operates several grant programs and mobility projects (scholarships, fellowships, artist residencies). By the end of 2013, more than 4,000 grant projects and nearly 2,000 individual scholarships and of €54 million. The fund’s annual budget consists of equal contributions from the governments of the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia. www.visegradfund.org Photo: Vladyslav Musiienko 5 (1) | 2014 CIRCULATION: 6,000 FREQUENCY: twice a year EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Wojciech Przybylski (Res Publica Nowa, PL) ASSISTANT EDITOR Anna Wójcik (Res Publica Nowa, PL) ECONOMY AND BUSINESS Martin Ehl (Hospodářské noviny, CZ) INTELLIGENT MIND Éva Karádi (Magyar Lettre International, HU) and Marta Šimečková (www.salon.eu.sk, SK) BOOKS Katarína Kucbelová (SK) INTERVIEW AND COMMUNITIES Máté Zombory (HU) ARTS Anna Wójcik (Res Publica Nowa, PL) VISEGRAD ABROAD in cooperation with Europeum (CZ) LANGUAGE EDITOR Vera Schulmann (USA) PHOTO EDITOR Jędrzej Sokołowski (Res Publica Nowa, PL) SOCIAL MEDIA EDITOR Hayden Berry (Res Publica Nowa, UK) CONFERENCE PR Emilia Zaręba (Res Publica Nowa, PL) [email protected] GRAPHIC DESIGN PUBLISHED BY Fundacja Res Publica im. H. Krzeczkowskiego Gałczyńskiego 5, 00-362 Warsaw, Poland 0048 22 692 47 84, [email protected] ORDERS AND INQUIRIES: [email protected] WEBPAGE: www.visegradinsight.eu ON THE COVER: Photo by Gerald Neugschwandtner We kindly thank interns working for this issue: Gertrude Gecaite, Mateusz Kuryła and Emilia Zaręba Visegrad Insight is published by Res Publica Foundation with the kind support of the International Visegrad Fund. The magazine maintains full editorial independence and opinions expressed in the articles are those of the authors and do not necessarily have to reflect or represent official position of the International Visegrad Fund, the Visegrad Group or the publisher. EUROPE MAIDAN, MIGRANTS AND DEMOCRACY MAIDAN, MIGRANTS AND DEMOCRACY EUROPE 4 VISEGRAD INSIGHT 1 (5) | 2014 5 CONTENTS CONTENTS EUROPE Vladyslav Musiienko Micha CHALLENGERS ł Siarek MAIDAN, MIGRANTS AND DEMOCRACY BANKERS, CHERRY PICKING NEW EUROPE 100 10 Bankers, hipsters, and housewives: FOR A HUNGRY 68 Tech startups of New Europe Kornel a revolution of common people Koronowski Oksana Forostyna HIPSTERS, AND EUROPE ANALYSIS 16 Labor migration as an invisible but ENEMIES OF DEMOCRACY strong economic issue. Commentary HOUSEWIVES INTERVIEW WITH ATTILA MELEGH, Martin Ehl ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR 70 What people think of democracy 18 U krainian migrants in the Czech AT CORVINUS UNIVERSITY Radosław Markowski A REVOLUTION 76 When the party is over Republic Yana Leonityeva 22 R eport: Forecasting immigration into by Máté Zombory Dominika Kasprowicz the V4 Marta Jaroszewicz, Wadim OF COMMON 79 Normative Poles meet masculine Strielkowski PAGE 46 Slovaks Piotr Żakowiecki 25 Migration policies towards third- PEOPLE VISEGRAD ABROAD country nationals Anton Pedko Mateusz Podgórski RETREAT FROM THE EAST 29 D iaspora oriented organization in the Oksana Forostyna 82 A fresh look at the East Bruno Lété V4 Magdalena Mazur 86 Would you call the Eastern Partnership 33 European commuters Matteo Tacconi a failed project? Interview with 36 Sticky issue or election-clincher? Matthew Bryza by Wojciech Przybylski Matthew Shearman 89 The end of the Neighborhood Spasimir 40 Freedom of movement and cross- Domaradzki border migration. Recent debates on migration in Europe Jędrzej Burszta Ivan Krastev BOOKS 42 New Europeans Gertruda Gecaite A FIRST-HAND ACCOUNT DELUGE OF BOOKS INTERVIEW OF HOW TO OUST A DICTATOR IN DEFENSE 92 A deluge of books Katarína Kucbelová 94 We know that we read but we don’t POPULATION FLOWS IN THE GLOBAL IN 93 DAYS PAGE 10 know what we read PERSPECTIVE OF DECADENT Petr Minarik 95 Text dumping. Interview with Geza 46 C herry picking for a hungry Europe. BWP Media BWP PAGE Morcsányi Interview with Attila Melegh EUROPE 50 Lila Proics 97 All that glitters is not gold Przemysław Máté Zombory Zdenek Matousek/PAP Witkowski INTELLIGENT MIND 98 R eviews by Katarzyna Dudzic- IN DEFENSE OF DECADENT EUROPE -Grabińska, Jan Rejžek, Michal Jareš, 50 I n Defense of Decadent Europe Ivan Ivana Taranenková, Magdalena Krastev Malińska, Judit Görözdi, Csaba Pléh, 52 T olerance requires competitiveness Renáta Deák Hywel Ceri Jones ARTS / LOOKING BACK COMMUNITIES ENTRY LEVEL COEXISTENCE 106 T he joys of obedience. Papers, Please Matthew Shearman 56 “The village will never be the same Piotr Sterczewski again.” Coexistence in northern 110 The Vietnamese in Poland Ewelina Hungary Chwiejda Cecília Kovai S TICKY ISSUE PAGE 112 112 Where stuffed sharks don’t live: On the ECONOMY AND BUSINESS Czech artistic puddle and its fish FREEDOM OF MOVEMENT OR ELECTION-CLINCHER? WHERE STUFFED SHARKS Marek Sečkař 60 Mobility is an opportunity. Interview ESSAY with Eduard Palíšek, CEO of Siemens Although European elections in the UK tend to be fought DON’T LIVE Czech Republic on domestic issues, V4 migrants will find themselves at THE LEGENDARY WEST Pavla Francová the center of a fierce debate in May 2014. PAGE Marek Sečkař On the Czech artistic puddle and its fish 64 No drain, no gain 36 118 The Legendary Maciej Kuziemski West János Háy 6 VISEGRAD INSIGHT 1 (5) | 2014 7 EUROPE MAIDAN, MIGRANTS AND DEMOCRACY MAIDAN, MIGRANTS AND DEMOCRACY EUROPE Te 2015 EU parliamentary elections official motto of Brussels: “united in diversity.” Among those is MAIDAN will coincide with the no less significant the issue of migration. With closer economic ties, which is the Eastern and Southern obvious outcome of the Ukrainian revolution, an increased Ukrainian elections to appoint new flow of people will follow, and migrants in Europe, unlike else- neighbors MIGRANTS authorities in Kyiv and to legitimize a new where in the world, have for quite some time been considered a potential threat, rather than an obvious opportunity. European path for what remains the largest WE WOULD LIKE TO BRING READERS’ ATTENTION TO THE FOCAL POINT OF THE ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND CHALLENG- country on the continent. While most of ES THAT LIE AHEAD FOR THE EASTERN PARTNERSHIP AND and the recent debate has been understandably Te simplest fundamental THE EUROPEAN NEIGHBORHOOD POLICY overshadowed by the political cannibalism D E M OCRACY achievement In democracies, new elections bring about new policies. Will of Vladimir Putin, there are three serious this be the case for Europe in 2014? Which issues will be ad- questions that should not be overlooked in dressed by the new EU parliament and the newly appointed IS EUROPE REALLY UNITED IN DIVERSITY? POLITICAL PLAT- commission? Will Brussels and individual country capitals WOJCIECH PRZYBYLSKI continental affairs. FORMS BASED ON MIGRATION AHEAD OF THE EUROPEAN devote some energy to much-needed improvements in the Editor-in-chief ELECTIONS ATTEST TO THE CONTRARY Neighborhood Policy? Tere are several shades of gray in European discourse on While Moscow’s foreign policy benefits from the recent surge migrants. Europeans demonstrate different, often contradic- of nationalist parties across the EU, Europe should rethink its tory attitudes toward foreigners who aspire to settle down attitude toward its Eastern neighbors and aim to reform and and earn their living among them. One such recent example integrate a common foreign policy. Despite all the odds, the was the French move to return a number of Roma migrants Eastern Partnership has worked, but the results have been to Central Europe in 2010. Tat decision, which was clearly unexpected; today’s policy must both adapt and demonstrate motivated by Nicolas Sarkozy’s need to satisfy the populist much more forward-thinking than before. demands of his constituency, did not help him win office two Understanding the years later. Te policy toward the East should not only be rethought as a tool for managing a potential crisis situation in the post-Soviet pro-European revolution Te debate on migrants took a turn for the compassionate space, but foremost as a thorough strategy aimed at bolstering after the Lampeduza tragedy in 2013, but have we not wit- relations with a troubled part of the world, integrating current nessed so many more such smaller-scale tragedies that they achievements, and reforming failed ideas. Tis encompasses THIS ISSUE OF VI PRESENTS A SERIOUS HELPING OF FOCUSED cumulatively make the migrant death toll too large to ac- the issue of migration, but it cannot be successful without se- ANALYSIS AND OPINION ON THREE MAJOR TOPICS: UNDERSTAND- ING THE UKRAINIAN MAIDAN MOVEMENT, DEBATES ON MIGRA- cept without hypocrisy? Finally, with the possibility of war rious reconsideration of the European attitude toward two, TION, AND ATTITUDES TOWARDS DEMOCRACY IN EUROPE next door, the issue of a just and effective migration policy is often contradictory, factors: short-term economic output and a most urgent one. long-term political strategy. By the end of 2013, we were all too comfortable watching vid- Nevertheless, several national parties running for seats in eos of people committed to the European way of life to the Brussels and Strasbourg
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