The Future of the V4 – Twenty Years on

The V4 group has been proclaimed dead so many times that we are often surprised to find it still alive.

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EUROPE

• Twenty Years After. Survey: What future will the V4 cooperation face? What has strengthened this cooperation in the past and what might undermine it in the future?
• Does the Visegrad Group Make Sense in Today’s Europe? Only in EU   Aleksander Smolar
• Is the Dream of Visegrad Dead?    Martin Bútora
• What Upcoming Challenges Must the V4 Face?    Magdaléna Vášáryová
• V4 – Let It Rest In Peace    Edward Lucas
• From Poor Neighbours to Partners    Tomáš Sedláček
• Institutionalization Unnecessary    Petr Pithart
• The Future of Visegrad Cooperation    Zoltán Pogátsa
• Visegrad – The Europe of Small Steps    Andrzej Jagodziński
• Europe of Foster Brothers    Csaba G. Kiss
• Myths About Civil Society    Grzegorz Piotrowski

THINK TANKS WATCH

• PASOS, A Central European Think Tank Network    Jacek Kucharczyk, Jeff Lovitt

ECONOMY

• Gas Geopolitics. A Small Lexicon of an Immense Issue    Martin Ehl
• Playing the Slovak Piano: New Business Ideas From New Europe. Interview with Tomáš Bella
• Analysis of Pension Systems in the Region    Ondřej Schneider

INTERVIEW

• Nobody Questions the Geopolitical Identity of the Region Anymore. Interview with Rudolf Chmel

INTELLIGENT MIND

• The Euro Crisis. Central European Lessons    Jacques Rupnik
• After the Velvet Divorce. Observations of a Double Insider     Martin M. Šimečka
• Nice One, Václav Havel!    György Konrád

VISEGRAD ABROAD

• Lost Illusions Or New Hopes    Lucia Najšlová
• Egypt’s January Revolution and the Eastern European Experience    Nadine Abdalla
• Marek Cichocki, Vít Dostál, Andrew Michta, Wojciech Przybylski discuss EU Presidencies
• Hungarian Council Presidency: An Evaluation    Piotr Maciej Kaczyński
• Forecast: Slovakia and the EU Presidency in 2016    Peter Weiss
• Time for the EU to Deal Fairly with the Western Balkans. Interview with Eduard Kukan

COMMUNITIES

• Generations, Ideologies and Returnees: Developments in Romanian Social Research    Florin Poenaru

REPORTAGE

• Landscape After the Battle. Doctors on Strike in the V4    Szabina Kerényi
• Photo reportage from four provincial hospitals Krzysztof Pacholak, Daniel Poláček, Zuzana Halanova and Imre Varga

URBAN

• Solemnity and Violence in Central and Eastern European Urban Life    Kacper Pobłocki

BOOKS

• Lifting the Fog    George Blecher
• Have I Not Treated Life, I Could Not Have Spoken About the Destruction. Interview with Zoltán Halasi
• Privatisation and the End of Solidarity    Jan Nĕmec
• Shock Literature    Katerína Kucbelová
• Homogeneous Diversity: The Mirror of Social Change    Orsolya Karafiáth
• Nothing Happened – But It Will!     Konrad C. Kęder
• Who Václav Havel Was and Who He Wasn’t    Marek Sečkař

LOOKING BACK/ARTS

• New Waves in the Visegrad Four: the History of an Adventure    Ewa Ciszewska

OPPORTUNITIES AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

• Artists In Residence Program in New York. Guidelines    Aleksandra Grzonkowska

ESSAY

• Bride-Mannequin and Twist-Pullover    Lajos Parti Nagy