Outlook Visegrad: Our Beloved Matrix

Grażyna Plebanek in Polityka asks all her friends to join her online crusade against the herd instinct.  And it will now be up to the Hungarian courts to examine whether state-funded art is worth it, reports József Mélyi in Élet és Irodalom.

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Outlook Visegrad: Sad and Fearful Eyes

Jerzy Pilch confides to Przekrój what he needs and loves and why his life has exceeded his wildest expectations. In Eurozine Slavenka Drakulić turns Europe into a perfect open air museum.  And in Respekt Ivan Kraus imagines what it might be like if a Czech Don Quixote were to take on Mubarak. 

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Outlook Visegrad: It’s You Today and Me Tomorrow

Freedom of the press first died in our souls, mourns Mária Vásárhelyi in Élet és Irodalom. Hubert Klimko-Dobraniecki describes in Poland’s Polityka what it was like suffering from writer’s block in Belgium. In the Czech MF Dnes Sir Nicholas Winton believes present-day politics is full of selfishness and greed. However, Lydia Cacho in Eurozine is convinced that truth is all-powerful. 

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Outlook Visegrad: Levels of emotion

László Lőrinc in Heti Világgazdaság rips into Hungarian “image-building” films. Kenan Malik and Fero Šebej discuss multiculturalism in Eurozine. In Poland’s Wprost Agnieszka Graff exclaims in exasperation: “Enough of Smolensk already!” And in the Czech Respekt Adam Votruba seeks   unexplored options for a new model of economic thinking.

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