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Economic Security
The Western Balkans Are Ageing Before Getting Rich
9 September 2026
12 May 2020
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Disinformation of Russian origin has been confusing people in Poland and elsewhere. But some Polish MEPs begin to use messages that appear to be given to them by ‘friendly’ people.
Soon, because of the coronavirus, extreme poverty will take place on a large scale in Europe and in the US, where people will steal and fight for food.
Such a vision is presented by the Russian agency RIA Novosti in the text “Europe and the US are preparing for hunger riots.”
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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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