- Category: Podcast
Experiences from the previous programming period have provided several lessons. “We had too many evaluation criteria, including some subjective ones, which was not ideal,” says Michal Fiala, Director General of the Slovak Innovation and Energy Agency (SIEA), in a podcast.
- Category: Podcast
As many as 37 percent of Slovaks do not exactly know what the European Green Deal means, even though they support renewable energy. Unlike Czechs, they are more open to climate measures, even if they feel economically threatened, says analyst Tomáš Chabada.
- Category: Podcast
For many years, the United Kingdom was the second most popular choice for Slovak students after the Czech Republic when deciding to study abroad. Hundreds of Slovaks still study there today, but since Brexit, tuition and living costs have risen significantly, along with increased competition for places, says student mobility expert Patrick Obdrzalek.
- Category: Podcast
The fourth government of Robert Fico is quite different from the previous ones. It pays little attention to the consequences of how it harms our bilateral or multilateral relations, says foreign policy expert Miroslav Wlachovský in a podcast.
- Category: Podcast
The situation after the Czech elections is not straightforward, as the government is being formed primarily by parties of the illiberal current. This has raised concerns in society about a “Slovak scenario” of democratic disruption. Unlike Slovakia, however, we have one advantage, says Vladimíra Dvořáková, director of the Masaryk Institute of Advanced Studies at CTU in Prague, in the podcast.
