Neu. Petr

"Ms Gathmann suggests that #citizenship sends two signals—to a migrant that he or she is secure, and to an employer that a person will stay put, so might be worth investing in.

Ms Mahmood thinks that making refugees less secure will deter many from coming."

"In Britain, natives and foreign-born people have almost identical employment rates, and migrant employees earn more.

In Denmark, by contrast, natives are employed at substantially higher rates than immigrants or their descendants."

@economist.com

Will Britain copy asylum policy from a place with poor integration? Everything sounds better in Danish

"Social policies can sound more plausible when described in Scandinavian accents.

But #Denmark’s record on #immigration is mixed. It has done a fine job of slashing asylum applications but a poor job of assimilating immigrants.

#Britain’s record is the opposite."

www.economist.com/britain/2025...

Může stát dlouhodobě prosperovat na dluh? Česko roste pomaleji než Polsko, ale zdravěji Po letech pandemie a energetické krize čelí vyspělé ekonomiky rostoucím tlakům na veřejné rozpočty. Česko se vydalo cestou konsolidace. Strukturální deficit veřejných financí se snížil pod dvě procent...

🇵🇱 🇨🇿 #Polsko volí opačnou cestu (než Česko).

"Ekonomika poroste letos o 3,3%, v roce 2026 o 3%, ovšem za cenu vysokého strukturálního deficitu (6,5% HDP) a rostoucího dluhu (66% HDP).

K dobru jí lze připsat účelné využití evropských peněz do infrastruktury i vzdělání."

archiv.hn.cz/c1-67813710-...

Somewhere in Moldova:

Today's sunset in Kharkiv

After A Year Of Protests, Serbian Nationalists Seek To Hijack Student Movement For the past year, Serbian students have been leading nationwide street protests demanding accountability after a railway station collapse that killed 16 people. But are the Serbian nationalists now t...

1/ “I’m proud when we fight for our national interests -- for Kosovo and Metohija,” one protester, who identified himself only as Stefan, told RFE/RL’s Balkan Service. He was using a term favored by the Serbian government, which does not recognize Kosovo as an independent state. ⬇️

Once again, after some time, an apt, funny, and at the same time terrifying cover @economist.com

The Most Powerful Man in Porn? Meet Prague’s Porn Pharaoh - VSquare.org Prague has been Europe’s unofficial porn capital for decades. For the past 20 years, one company and one man has dominated Europe’s porn industry.

💥Countries with the most porn stars per capita? Czechia, Latvia and Hungary top the list — ahead of the US & UK. This investigation uncovers how a mysterious Frenchman built a porn empire from his Czech base, using shady tactics to dominate the industry.

Polarisation is making the process incredibly difficult, as fervent supporters of both chief opposing political camps now firmly believe there are good, independent judges who align with them and bad, politicised judges who support the other side.

Poland's struggle to fix its justice system holds lessons for other countries Donald Tusk’s government in Poland has struggled to reverse changes to the judicial system made by the previous nationalist, conservative government.

🇵🇱⚖️🇪🇺🇭🇺🇺🇸 I had a chance to talk (a lot) with @claudiabirn.bsky.social for @apnews.com on the rule of law in Poland, but more importantly, on the lessons the process of restoring judicial independence in Poland has for other countries. Harsh lessons, I must admit.

apnews.com/article/pola...

Čeští oligarchové používají média pro prosazovaní svých zájmů, které se obvykle rozchází se zájmy republiky a jejích občanů, tak budou ovládat téměř 3/4 mediálního trhu.
www.visegradsky-jezdec.cz/zpravy-ktere...

Nordic countries paying most for Ukraine ‘not sustainable,’ Swedish foreign minister says The EU must seize Russia’s frozen assets, Maria Malmer Stenergard believes, because any other solution would be unfair to Ukraine’s biggest backers.

"Denmark, for example, has contributed over €10 billion to Ukraine since the start of Russia's full-scale invasion in 2022, equal to nearly 3 percent of its gross domestic product. Spain, on the other hand, has given €1.48 billion, or less than 0.2 percent of its GDP"
www.politico.eu/article/nord...

The Czech ticket controller offers to talk to me Czech, Slovak, English, German or Polish. Very confusing question, but also a sign that we're nearing the heart of Mitteleuropa.

Usual Slavic situation, the word for "train":

🇨🇿 vlak
🇸🇰 vlak
🇧🇬 влак
🇭🇷 vlak
🇸🇮 vlak
🇵🇱 *inhales*
🇨🇿 not again, you edgy son of a...
🇵🇱 POCIĄG

So jealous! I lived nearby, but could never visit the interior!

Hope you will have a good time.

And help prevent the forseeable rule-of-law crisis stirred by the upcoming government… (no pressure)

The interiors of Villa Grebovka, where the CEELI Institute is based, are wow.

🇨🇿❄️⚖️🇪🇺 Morning Prague! About to spend three days here on an invitation from INPRIS and CEELI to train people on judicial independence and impartiality under EU law as part of an EU-funded project about strategic litigation.

Apart from worrying signs of fraud, it’s devastating that the deeply divisive and criminal Dodik is still in power: he presides SNSD, Karan promised to continue his policies, he is backed by Trump.

We need a firm EU message that only integration and rule of law can count on funding and accession.

Over at the Daily Telegraph, they're scratching their heads as to why the former mining and steel producinv city of Gliwice in Poland is now 45% more prosperous than Darlington... and why it has new shiny infrastructure... without mentioning EU funds for urban and regional development...

To se tak někdy sejde ...

Když ubylo místo pro auta, tak vzniklo místo pro podnikání a pro práci lidí.

Za mě dobrý.

The cuckoo party

Proč rostou ceny bytů, i když se staví? Výstavba není totéž co vyšší nabídka. - Médium.cz „Vždyť se byty staví, staví se víc než dřív, a ceny pořád rostou!“ Mnozí z tohoto vyvozují chybný závěr, že zvýšení nabídky bytů nevede k nižším cenám. Proč chybný? Samotná výstavba nemusí znamenat zv...

Proč rostou ceny bytů, i když se staví? Výstavba není totéž co vyšší nabídka.

(Dlouhý post si řekl o přepsání do blogu na Seznam Medium: 👇)

medium.seznam.cz/clanek/libor...

Praha je dokonalým příkladem. Vize, které má vtělené do nejrůznějších plánů a strategií, jsou moderní, ambiciózní, krásné.

Realita rozpočtu tomu ale neodpovídá, opatření se nerealizují, nebo se realizují pomalu.

V Praze je dnes odpovědný Kovářík (ODS), v Praze 1 Heres (ODS), s nimi jejich koalice.

Žádná krása fotka na žádná krása místě. Ale podstatné je, že už tu máme dvacátou, poslední tramvaj Škoda 52T z aktuální objednávky.

Ovšem rámcová smlouva je až na 200 kusů, tak snad se brzy dočkáme dalších. Na nové tratě budou třeba.

Tak ať to jezdí!

Vobechcávaj si nás tu regulérní mafiáni a jejich připitomělí podržtažkové s egem napumpovaným špinavýma prachama.

Naší nadějí, jako tolikrát, je, že celá ta pyramida hnusu postavená na lžích, hlouposti a egoismu nakonec zhroutí jako vždy. Ale je to vyčerpávající a nechutné... a nebezpečné.

On "Peace Plans" and Military (Im)Mobility in Europe In this week’s Europe Dispatch, Minna Ålander discusses persisting lack of military mobility in Europe and likely yet another nothingburger, served by Trump.

#Trump’s problem is that while he may truly want to end this war, and the cost to #Ukraine is probably pretty irrelevant to him, #Russia clearly does not want the war to end.”

@alanderminna.bsky.social

phillipspobrien.substack.com/p/on-peace-p...

Nano Banana 3: "Create an infographic in Czech advocating for adopting euro. Use the visuals and logo of proeuro.cz"

Srovnejte s prvním DALL-E, jestli si pamatujete. Stejný pokrok udělalo i textové LLM. A evidentně ta křivka pokračuje bez zpomalení, tři roky nepřetržitého zlepšování.