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Martin Ehl @MartinCZV4EU English columns: www.tol.org. New leaders and new horizons of the Visegrad cooperation. Andrej Kiska in Slovakia or Andrej Babiš in Czech Republic?. Who are the new leaders?. Pawel Kukiz or Andrzej Duda in Poland?. No Andrej in Hungary, so maybe János Lázar?.
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Martin Ehl @MartinCZV4EU English columns: www.tol.org New leaders and new horizons of the Visegrad cooperation
Andrej Kiska in Slovakia or Andrej Babiš in Czech Republic? Who are the new leaders? • Pawel Kukiz or Andrzej Duda in Poland? No Andrej in Hungary, so maybe János Lázar?
Really? What V4 needs now • New political class • Better education • Stability for business • Foreign investment • Well working judicial systems • Less populism • EU stable institutional design • Economic growth • More cooperation • Peace in Europe • ?????
…. that also means raising a new generation of leaders. Where to find them? Third decade question For the first time in moder history our region has more than 20 years of uninterrupted development.... (My book from 2010 available in Czech)
New leaders are here and there • Check this short film about new leaders and new horizons which Central Europe could offer Leadership is not only about politics, which has got bad image, but also about business, science, education and others through which you could influence much more than only business, science, education and others.
New leaders - innovators • Vladimír Kořen (CZ): politics can be different with use of 21st century tools • Olga Malinkiewicz (PL): visionary business scientist (Have you ever heard of perowskite? Be sure, you will)
New leaders – innovators II. Adam Somlai-Fischer (HU): how to built global company from Budapest • Matúš Kostolný (SK): media could be independent as well as innovative
What they have in common? • Think globally, act locally • Not afraid of experimenting • Having on mind local social context • Thinking on long term development • Crawling in free market envirnment • Europe as natural playing field • Hard to find any politician like this but we should! • Respect for basic common values
Who should be new leaders of Central Europe? Main features? What problems should they concentrate on? From where they should come? And now your turn...
Thank you! @MartinCZV4EU English columns: www.tol.org