The Multiple Crisis of Europe (download) The EU – the European polity, the European Single Market and the set of supranational institutions are not sustainable in their present forms and functionings. The methods of the elite-driven integration became obsolete, the European project has lost its attractivity, the institutions are increasingly distrusted and the promise of…
ISES Foundation is proud to announce the launch of the book entitled: Creative Cities and Sustainability Miszlivetz Ferenc and the research group of ISES: Creative Cities and Sustainability.Proposals to achieve the Danube strategy via the example of Western Pannonia. Ser. ISES. Savaria University Press, Kőszeg-Szombathely, 2012, pp. 208. Book order: info@ises.hu Price: 35 EURO Available content: Ferenc Miszlivetz and…
The KRAFT-index Ferenc Miszlivetz & Eszter Márkus “The Creative City – Sustainable Region Index (The KRAFT Index) is an innovative regional development concept. It is rooted in the conviction that the key to successful development initiatives and projects is the effective cooperation between the socio-economic stakeholders of the relevant region. The KRAFT Index proposes an…
21st Anniversary Conference of The Club Of Budapest Ferenc Miszlivetz is talking about the new democracy and the Great Transformation that is happening right now in the world at the 21st Anniversary Conference of The Club Of Budapest (2014. december 5-6). The Club Of Budapest
Prof. Ferenc Miszlivetz, visiting professor, is to give a public lecture at Columbia University on Wednesday, January 25.
Evaluating 1989 has divided analysts from the outset. The majority of political scientists and sociologists saw the events as the victory of liberal democracy in Central and Eastern Europe. Thus, Jürgen Habermas or Timothy Garton Ash did not see the ‘velvety revolutions’ as offering anything new, they did not believe that any original or innovative…
The European Union has been going through a crisis. It has lost its dynamism and can only strengthen its competitiveness and increase economic and social cohesion if the member states, regions, local governments and, not least, activist groups of local societies strive to achieve these aims. Not all public figures seem to have understood this in our…
Laurence Whitehead in a recently published article, links the complex and blurred issue of Eastern enlargement of the EU to what he calls „democracy promotion”.* As is usually in the case of European enlargement, reality moves ahead of theory and the social sciences: one can agree with Whitehead that the Helsinki Summit of Dec. 1999, which concluded to start…
Democratic deficit The EU’s soft spot is that its institutions are not thoroughly transparent and lack the democratic social legitimacy. The democratic deficit during the 90’s was constantly growing. The consensus that was symptomatic of the integration-orientated elite has been drained after the war. This consensus played a noteworthy role in the regular and effective co-operation of the…
There are more and more people asking how did we manage to make such a mess of it all? Why did we fail to retain and capitalise on the initial advantage and positive evaluation that this country had at the outset? Back in 1990 this country was seen as the most promising East of the Elba. After…