Juraj Majcin

2 months ago | cepa.org | Sergiy Makogon |Martin J. Pospisil |Juraj Majcin |Paul Taylor

Slowly, very slowly, Europe is weaning itself off its addiction to cheap Russian energy and all its associated costs, including repeated blackmail and supply cuts whenever it suits the Kremlin.  It’s been greatly aided by Ukraine, which previously made money from transiting Russia’s oil and gas, but which has a keener understanding of Russian malevolence. Tens of thousands of dead and a landscape of ruined cities will do that for you.

2 months ago | cepa.org | Martin J. Pospisil |Juraj Majcin |Paul Taylor |Stephen Blank

I was born in communist Czechoslovakia, a nation occupied by Russians until their forced departure in 1990. Officially, they were called Soviets, but to us, they were simply Russians — the ugly face of Moscow’s rule.  The Soviet Union boasted that it was a union of equals, but in truth, our experience was just another chapter in Russia’s centuries-old drive for expansion.

2 months ago | cepa.org | James Fennell |Juraj Majcin |Paul Taylor |Sam Greene

Successive British governments have been walking backward towards rearmament. They know the world has changed, they know they need to bolster defense, yet all they can see is the warm glow of the post war-settlement behind them. Like over-optimistic day trippers on English beaches, they are wearing too little too late in the season, and now stand shivering and near-naked as icy gusts of realpolitik whip across the dunes.

2 months ago | cepa.org | Juraj Majcin |Paul Taylor |Sam Greene |Colby Badhwar

The continent’s defense, technological and industrial capacity should be strengthened quickly using the leverage of the European Union’s regulatory power and its enormous market. To drive this, governments will need to increase national spending and borrow collectively to meet growing defense demands.