New leaders and new horizons of
the Visegrad cooperation
Martin Ehl
@MartinCZV4EU
English columns: www.tol.org
Who are the new leaders?
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Pawel Kukiz or
Andrzej Duda in
Poland?
Andrej Kiska in
Slovakia or
Andrej Babiš
in Czech
Republic?
No Andrej in
Hungary, so maybe
János Lázar?
Really? What V4 needs now
New political
class
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Stability for
business
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Less
populism
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More
cooperation
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)
…. that also means
raising a new
generation of leaders.
Where to find them?
New leaders are here and there
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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
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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
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Matúš Kostolný (SK): media
could be independent
as well as innovative
What they have in common?
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Think globally, act
locally
Having on mind local
social context
Crawling in free
market envirnment
Respect for basic
common values
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Not afraid of
experimenting
Thinking on long term
development
Europe as natural
playing field
And now your turn...
Who should be new leaders of Central
Europe?
Main features?
What problems should they concentrate on?
From where they should come?
Thank you!
@MartinCZV4EU
English columns: www.tol.org