Tonnes of literature has been produced on monuments or memorial sites in Central Europe, being errected, celebrated, damaged, vandalized, demolished, re-errected and veiled and unveiled by various political regimes over time. More than anything else they mirror the diverse history of V4 states and continue to fuel contemporary political fights.

The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, a treaty being negotiated between the EU and the US has been heavily criticized for being undemocratic, non-transparent and is said to be eroding Europe’s relatively higher social, labor and environmental standards. However, the debate has not started in the Visegrad countries so we don’t really know where governments and political parties stand in the debate. Is it because they don’t care? Here are some of the reasons they should.

The discussion with Edward Lucas on why we compare ourselves with the West, what lies beneath the turn in Czech foreign policy and what might be the sources of alleged Czech underperformance continues.