New leaders and new horizons of the Visegrad cooperation

Martin Ehl

@MartinCZV4EUEnglish columns: www.tol.org

Who are the new leaders?

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

Stability for business

Better

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EU stable institutional design Economic growthMore 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

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

Thinking on long term development

Having on mind local social context

Crawling in free market envirnment

Europe as natural playing field

Respect for basic common values Hard to

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we should!

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