For several weeks now, there have been massive protests by Belarusians against the rigged presidential election in their country. During that time, several people were killed by security forces and thousands more were beaten or imprisoned. How should the EU respond to this situation? The guests of the next debate within the EU± series will address this issue on Wednesday, September 23.

Lucie Vinařská in the background article to the debate of the same name from the Prague Climate Talks series (September 17) examines the opinion of Czech society on climate change, its division and the potential for unification due to the climate and coronavirus crisis.

In his latest blog, Márk Szabó explains the importance of United States protests against racism for Europe.

Within the project called Czech Interests in the EU, experts and researchers examine whether and how the interests of the Czech Republic are being carried through in European institutions. The result of the survey is the regularly published Index of Czech Interests. The topic of the first one is the response to the economic recession following the Special European Council.

The Think Visegrad platform, which brings together think tanks from the Visegrad countries, including the EUROPEUM Institute for European Policy, is offering 8 visiting fellowships to non-Visegrad expert fellows for the period Autumn/Winter of 2020. The duration of fellowships varies from 6 to 8 weeks (based on agreement with the hosting institute).

Our Zuzana Stuchlíková commented for the Euractiv.cz website on the issue of the rule of law in EU countries and the possibility of enforcing its observance by European institutions.

The ISFC (reasearch and learning centre and sister organisation of EUROPEUM) is looking to hire new colleagues for the Head of Projects and Internship positions.

On 23th of June, Eurocentrum Prague organized online debate in cooperation with EUROPEUM Institute for European Policy. Speakers are Lucie Núñez Tayupanta, head of the department of European research for Ministry of Education, youth and sports. And David Uhlíř, deputy director for strategy of Jihomoravské inovační centrum (JIC). Debate is moderated by Ludmila Johnová, director of Eurocentra Praha.

Our Institute for European Policy EUROPEUM and Eurocentrum Prague would like to cordially invite you to the online debate "Funding science and research in the EU - a look beyond the horizon", which will take place on June 23 from 5:00 PM.

EUROPEUM Institute for European Policy cordially invites you to a debate from the Café Evropa series. The debate will focus on sustainable agriculture and food self-sufficiency. The debate will take place on Tuesday 30 June from 5.30 pm online on Facebook.

Linda Zeilina wrote a policy paper as a part of the Think Visegrad platform on the topic of sustainable finance and energy security of the Visegrád group countries.

Zuzana Vondrová authored a policy paper for the 13th debate of the Prague Climate Talks, which will take place online on EUROPEUM's Facebook on June 16. The topic of the paper and the debate is Just Transition Fund.