Leapfrogging to the Digital Future

Some long-awaited good news for the region might come in the form of technological investments from abroad

15 March 2018

Wojciech Przybylski

Editor-in-Chief

With the welcomed news that Volkswagen will be opening facilities in the Czech Republic and Poland to aid in their electric car production, already running in Germany and Slovakia, the innovative future of the V4 looks ever brighter.

This decision is in line with and follows the announcement from last October that the South Korean firm LG Chem is investing 5.9 billion pln to build Europe’s largest factory focused on the production of lithium-ion batteries – a key component for electric cars – in Wroclaw, a city in the south of Poland.

A shining example

When reflecting on the digital revolution’s impact on democratic institutions and processes, most of the attention has been focused on established democracies rather than countries of post-soviet heritage.

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Wojciech Przybylski

Editor-in-Chief

Wojciech Przybylski is leading strategic foresight on EU affairs to improve democratic security of Poland in Europe. He organises EuropeFuture.Forum as the Editor of Visegrad Insight and the President of Res Publica Foundation. An advisory board member at LSE IDEAS Ratiu Forum, European Forum of New Ideas. A guest lecturer at the Foreign Service Institute for the U.S. Government, Warsaw University and CEU Democracy Institute. He co-authored among others a book 'Understanding Central Europe’, (Routledge 2017), and 'On the Edge. Poland' (Culturescapes 2019), 'Let's Agree on Poland' (Oxford University Press, 2025) and was widely published in the international press.

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