The Chinese Influence in Visegrad Countries

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The Chinese Influence in Visegrad Countries

Zdeněk Rod - University of West Bohemia in Pilsen Zdeněk Rod is a research fellow and PhD candidate at the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen, Department of Politics and International Relations. He is also CEO & Co-Founder of Center for Security Consulting in Prague, a fellow at the International…

Guest Author2024-01-23

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Local consideration in education policies of post-war Kosovo

The author : Adalgisa Martinelli graduates in International Affairs at University of Bologna in December 2022, with a Master thesis on “The role of agriculture between Africa and EU relations: Kenya case-study” supervised by Professor Arrigo Pallotti. On May 2023, she receives the award America Giovani from Fondazione Italia-USA for…

Guest Author2023-10-13

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For a better future of NEETs in Romania

By Amalia Dania Berinde Dania Berinde majored in English Literature in 2013 and later became an English-Romanian translator. In 2022 she began economic studies, enrolling in bachelor’s studies at the Vasile Goldis Western University of Arad, specialising in Accounting and Management Informatics under the mentorship of Professor Olimpia Neagu. Blue…

Guest Author2023-09-08

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Threats to the Rule of Law in the UK and in Europe

By Lorenza Buttini Lorenza Buttini is a graduate in the master’s degree in law at the University of Pavia with a score of 109/110. Her final dissertation, discussed in December 2022, is about ‘The contrast to the gender pay gap’ in the field of European Comparative Labor Law, with particular…

Guest Author2023-08-09

ukraine, energy, russia, war, donbass, economy, dependency, gas,

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European reliance on Russian Gas and Its Deep Implications

By Vladimir C. - Master in Political Sciences (Germany) - Blue Europe 2021 Contest - Review by Grzegorz Wiśniewski and Brian Fabregue The European Union's 27 member states now rely on Russia for a major share of their imported natural gas; this reliance will grow considerably bigger if European states…

Guest Author2021-12-26

economy, lithuania, latvia, estonia, baltics, imports, exports, baltics, china, international relations,

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How China got into Baltics in less than one decade, and may get out even faster

by Piotr Nowak, University of Warsaw Introduction Since its inception in 2012, China’s "17 + 1" cooperation platform — an initiative aimed at deepening Beijing’s economic and cultural ties with 17 countries in Central and Eastern Europe — has sparked considerable speculation about China’s motivations and raised concerns about the format’s tangible deliverables. Beijing’s…

Guest Author2021-11-01

Classement Shanghai, evolution, fidesz, Hongrie, Orban, université

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Hungarian reaches top of secondary education

By Grzegorz Wiśniewski, Ph.D. Economy Since 2015, the Hungarian government has begun to invest massively in education, particularly in tertiary (university) education. These investments, which account for a significant part of the Hungarian budget, indicate an approach that Blue Europe considers favourable, particularly in terms of the development of advanced…

Guest Author2021-01-18

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Interview with Michel Dorin, honorary consul of Poland in Rennes and former president of the Bretagne Pologne association

Hello Mr Dorin, thank you for accepting this interview for Blue Europe. Could you please introduce yourself and explain what the Bretagne Pologne association is all about? I am of Polish origin through my mother, so I have known Poland for a very long time. I was 9 years old…

Guest Author2021-01-18

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