Analyzes
No significant changes of the Czech pension system were made last year and it is therefore still unable to cope with demographic changes. But it is even worse as most of our citizens believe that the state will be able to take care of them when they retire.
Gabriela Munkova: Merit principle disappears from Czech pension system
When even an EU Presidency acknowledges that the Lisbon Strategy is a failure, it must be quite a debacle.
Ivo Šlosarčík is a lecturer of European and international law at Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles Univesity, and New York University in Prague. He is an expert on legal issues of European integration, judicial and police cooperation in the EU, and Czech reform of civil service and judiciary. He participated in the seminar on the ways how to influence European legislation in the new legislative framework after the Lisbon Treaty organised by the Institute for European Policy Europeum.
