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Neighbourhood Programme - view from Belarus
Neighbourhood Programme - view from Belarus
How can we develop the effect of the Danish strategy for Neighbourhood countries? - Here are the views of local civil society actors in Belarus. Civil society development process in many ENP countries directly connected with foreign aid programs and...  24.05.2012 | 11:46
Svetlana Matskevich: The problem is to form the national elites, not the students’ number decrease
Svetlana Matskevich: The problem is to form the national elites, not the students’ number decrease
Recently, Minister of Education Sergei Maskevich announced that following the entrance campaign of 2012 in Belarus can result a shortage of first-year students having government-financed education. The Minister did not see here any particular cause for...  23.05.2012 | 14:10
Igor Lalkou: Scolars do not consider Belarus being a part of Europe
Igor Lalkou: Scolars do not consider Belarus being a part of Europe
Modern Belarusian school does not teach children to perceive Belarus in European context. Igor Lalkou, culture expert, told this to «EUROBELARUS» information service.  16.05.2012 | 15:38
Office plankton in networks and a bit of politics
Office plankton in networks and a bit of politics
The head of the Board of the International consortium "EUROBELARUS", philosopher and methodologist Uladzimir Matskevich is very skeptical about the prospects of social networks, especially to an overestimation of their organizational and motivational...  16.05.2012 | 13:50
Inclusive education in Belarus is prevented by ...parents’ guidelines?
Inclusive education in Belarus is prevented by ...parents’ guidelines?
In Belarus, the majority of parents of healthy children supports the idea of the need to develop the integrated education system, but in reality they are not ready to allow their children study in integrated classes.  04.05.2012 | 13:47
Ulad Vialichka: Europeanization of Belarus - mission possible!
Ulad Vialichka: Europeanization of Belarus - mission possible!
Civil society and Europeanization were the two main concepts, reasoned upon by the chairman of the International consortium "EuroBelarus" Ulad Vialichka within a public lecture in the series "Urbi et Orbi", held by the Flying University. The lecturer...  30.04.2012 | 14:00
Ulad Vialichka: The ambassadors’ return is a symbolic, but important moment
Ulad Vialichka: The ambassadors’ return is a symbolic, but important moment
Ambassadors are arriving! Swedish Ambassador Stefan Eriksson returned to Minsk yesterday, Czech Ambassador JiЕ™н Karas will arrive on Friday. Till the end of the week the ambassador of Estonia Jaak Lensment is going to return to Belarus. The chairman...  26.04.2012 | 14:33
Svetlana Karaleva: Youth Parliament in Belarus is a beautiful combination of phantom words
Svetlana Karaleva: Youth Parliament in Belarus is a beautiful combination of phantom words
If the Belarusian authorities want to create a youth parliament, they should clearly announce their objectives and the rules for this body functioning. This comment was voiced by Svetlana Karaleva, an expert of the Alternative Youth Platform to...  23.04.2012 | 15:55
Uladzimir Matskevich: What happened was not a gesture of goodwill
Uladzimir Matskevich: What happened was not a gesture of goodwill
The release of Andrei Sannikaw and Dzmitry Bandarenka was a necessary step of the Belarusian authorities, done under the pressure of the European community. This opinion was expressed by Uladzimir Matskevich, the head of the Board of the International...  18.04.2012 | 02:03
Park of the 40th anniversary of the October Revolution. The lost fight
Park of the 40th anniversary of the October Revolution. The lost fight
I risk bringing down on myself the anger of the indignant public and civil activists who entered the struggle to save the Park of the 40th anniversary of October Revolution. But! The situation is indicative, and it is necessary to study it.  16.04.2012 | 02:42
Consulting Civil Society Organisations to shape future EU policy (Video)
Consulting Civil Society Organisations to shape future EU policy (Video)
The European Commission has opened a public consultation addressing civil society organisations to contribute to the future EU policy on "Civil Society Organisations in Development Cooperation". Kristian Schmidt, Director of Human and Society...  04.04.2012 | 06:09
What the EU should do to end state terror in Belarus
What the EU should do to end state terror in Belarus
BRUSSELS - True to his image as Europe's last dictator, Belarus' Alexander Lukashenko has just added two more crimes to a long list of repressions against his own people.  25.03.2012 | 08:17
Geopolitical struggle for Belarus
Geopolitical struggle for Belarus
Over the past one and a half challenging years, we have been dealing with the biggest crisis in relations between the European Union and Belarus. Worse still is the fact that there is still a long way to go before hitting bottom. The mutual...  23.03.2012 | 16:56
The truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth is what we need
The truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth is what we need
"I swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth!" - many people know this formula from detective novels and films. It is the court of justice that should elicit the truth and only the truth. The truth is far from being someone’s...  20.03.2012 | 07:37
The house arrest
The house arrest
The Belarusian authorities’ revengefulness and meanness has been implemented yet in another form of reality, - in a "house arrest" measure application against the active part of our society; in fact, taking place without any legal grounds for that.  12.03.2012 | 12:04
Marek Siwiec: The Future of EURONEST
Marek Siwiec: The Future of EURONEST
Since the very beginning, we have harboured high hopes regarding EURONEST, the joint assembly of delegations of the European Parliament and law-making institutions from the Eastern Partnership’s countries, which was supposed to be a parliamentary...  09.03.2012 | 10:57
Matskevich:Everything that the Belarusian authorities are doing now is to be corrected and done over
Matskevich:Everything that the Belarusian authorities are doing now is to be corrected and done over
Civil society either does exist, or not. But if civil society exists, the last word in addressing social and political issues is always on it.  06.03.2012 | 10:14
A Useful Clash With Belarus
A Useful Clash With Belarus
Europe’s relations with Belarus took a dramatic turn for the worse this week. In an unusually unified move, the European Union recalled its ambassadors after Minsk showed the E.U. and Polish envoys the door in protest at fresh sanctions on the...  02.03.2012 | 12:03
Ulad Vialichka: Gunnar Wiegand has arrived with an intention to listen to all parties
Ulad Vialichka: Gunnar Wiegand has arrived with an intention to listen to all parties
During Gunnar Wiegand’s meetings with representatives of the Belarusan authorities, the question about guarantees of release of the political prisoners has not been discussed. However, the tone of the conversation with Belarusan officials testified...  11.02.2012 | 10:45
Uladzimir Matskevich: Lukashenko will feign democratization
Uladzimir Matskevich: Lukashenko will feign democratization
The thoughts and ideas, which come to the head of the Belarusan president when he is compelled to do something, can easily be sized up. This is how the Head of the Council of the International Consortium "EuroBelarus", philosopher and methodologist,...  11.02.2012 | 10:30
Representatives of the public have commented on the initiative of the Office for a Democratic Belaru
Representatives of the public have commented on the initiative of the Office for a Democratic Belaru
Representatives of public organizations and expert community of the country continue to discuss the initiative, which was released last week by the head of the Brussels-based Office for a Democratic Belarus, Olga Stuzhinskaya; it concerns a reduction...  06.02.2012 | 10:53
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Gintautas Mažeikis: The relation of political field and arena in the framework of information war

In his report, philosopher Gintautas Mažeikis discusses several concepts that have been a part of the European social and philosophical thought for quite a time.

“It is our big joint work”

It is impossible to change life in cities just in three years (the timeline of the “Agenda 50” campaign implementation). But changing the structure of relationships in local communities is possible.

Shhh! Belarus Wants You to Think It’s Turning Over a New Leaf

Minsk’s muddled media clampdown could jeopardize warming of relations with the West.

Mikhail Matskevich: How to create a local agenda and make it a problem solving tool

To achieve changes, you need to be interested in them and stop pinning all hopes on the state.