Commentary
Democratic Security
How Orbán’s Power Machine Cracked From Within
14 May 2026
22 February 2024
Editor-in-Chief
Ukraine’s resistance: a beacon of hope for European unity and prosperity
Thank you, Ukrainians, for your resilience and courage – also in the name of the farmers who humiliate you in Europe! Accept our apologies for not resolving that internal conflict of ours early enough.
Even in Poland, we have learned our lessons too late. Our boastful claims of expertise in Russian affairs were silenced when our farmers fell under Moscow’s influence. We should have been more vigilant – Russia, with its imperialist ambitions, never misses an opportunity.
Yes, Russia is a neo-colonialist power. Today’s Europe is anything but. And the present-day EU is only growing up to the challenges you have been directly exposed to for far too long.
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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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