Новости за 02.01.2024

I found Budapest impoverished and decayed. Each time you visit Prague or Warsaw, the roads seem better, houses cleaner and cars more modern than last time. In Budapest, it is the opposite.

Just once in a while, a book comes along that zooms out instead of in, avoiding acronyms and actually trying to answer the main question many citizens have had for a long time: who takes the decisions in Brussels?

A corridor two floors below the Paul-Henri Spaak building in Brussels once led to the EU institutions. Today, it is used to store broken office furniture and sculptures celebrating the birth of the European Union by Spanish artist Cristóbal Gabarrón.

The European Center for Disease Control chief Andrea Ammon talks about communicating in times of crisis, and how to build trust when things calm down — reflecting on lessons learned during the Covid-19 pandemic.

While being strong supporters of democracy, young people are far from feeling naïve about the current state of democracies in their own countries, a survey of young citizens from Austria, Greece, Ireland, and Slovakia shows.