Freedom(less) Island (Interview with Erich de la Fuente)

What the Cuban government is worried about is human rights activists who might grab their mass appeal. But in the end of the day, the civil society has been growing in Cuba, first of all, due to the courage, and second, thanks to the support it has been receiving.

Leave the Internet alone, please

The new EU telecoms regulation is based on the assumption that someone somewhere is in charge of the Internet. In fact, no one is.

“Nothing Special”: The Economic Crisis in Latvia

A prudent government would have kept a cap on its spending and invested into reserves in order to cushion the inevitable heavy blow that would follow the 'credit orgy'. The Latvian government did none of it.

Corruption °C. Report on Corruption and Anticorruption Policy in Latvia. 2008 First semiannum

Year: 2008Editor-in-chief: Valts Kalnins Authors: Linda Austere, Sonja Bien Karlovšek, Inga VilkaFinanced by: European CommissionLanguage: English

Say ‘sorry’, dear bureaucrat

I believe that in order to consolidate society it is crucially important for the public administration to admit its mistakes and to state its willingness to reduce the impact of these mistakes.  

Latvia: Extreme political turbulence

Year: 2009Authors: Iveta Kažoka, Dace AkuleOrganization: PROVIDUSLanguage: English

Devil in the detail of government restructuring plan

If implemented, the new government restructuring plan could significantly reduce transparency and civic participation in government decision-making.

A Matter of Trust

Trust is much easier to undermine that it is to create, and, in general, we are much better off in a society where we are able to trust one another than in one in which we are not.

Corruption °C. Report on Corruption and Anticorruption Policy in Latvia. 2008 Second semiannum

Year: 2009Editor-in-chief: Valts Kalnins Authors: Linda Austere, Valts Kalnins, Goran KlemencicFinanced by: European CommissionLanguage: English

The Origins and Outcomes of the Global Economic Crisis

"We are in a depression. And that is just the beginning,” says the world-famous profesor of sociology Immanuel Wallenstein. What awaits the world? The professor's lecture at the Stockholm School of Economics offers some answers.