This issue takes a special look at the role and responsibility of the public intellectual in Central and Eastern Europe today.

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We would like to wish all of our readers a wonderful Holiday Season and a New Year filled with peace and happiness.

Meeting with Cambridge Historian Dominic Lieven - November 19 2018, Massolit Books in Krakow, Poland.

"Talk Eastern Europe" is a podcast hosted by New Eastern Europe dedicated to debating the issues facing the region of Central and Eastern Europe.

Commemorating anniversaries is one of the key elements in collective memory and shaping national identities. This year’s events surrounding the centennial anniversaries of 1918 are no exception.

A new generation of young leaders is asking an important question: How can we fix the economic, social and environmental problems our elders failed to solve? Polish students with the “Education is a Window to the World” programme created the “Global Reading on Global Challenges” project to educate Poles, from juniors to seniors, on the Sustainable Development Goals and climate action ahead of the COP24 Katowice Climate Conference in December.

On October 25th 2018 in Kraków, at Villa Decius, the headquarters of the Villa Decius Association, in the presence of the members of the committee of the the Polish Prize of Sérgio Vieira de Mello, foreign diplomats and numerous guests, the director of the European Solidarity Centre, Basil Kerski, was honoured with the Polish Prize of Sérgio Vieira de Mello – the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (2002-2003).

While still awaiting official results, some candidates have already brought out the champagne.

A discussion on the Polish-Jewish past, today and future.

This weekend the citizens of Latvia and Bosnia and Herzegovina had the chance to influence the direction of their countries.

Where is the world headed? How can citizens shape their social, economic and environmental circumstances? How can Poland make its mark on a changing Europe? Will we be able to stop the climate change? These are just some of the questions we will attempt to answer in order to better understand global problems that impact is in our daily life.