O české politice, evropských perspektivách a globálních problémech
Czech Politics, European Perspectives, Global Problems

Summary/Abstract: Na cestě k Evropske socialni unii: Rozhovor Marka Hrubce s Vladimirem Špidlou. Prague: Sociologicke nakladatelstvi (SLON), 2012, 148 pp., ISBN 978-80-7419-116-9. In this book-length interview, Marek Hrubec, the Director of the Centre for Global Studies, Prague, asks Vladimir Špidla, a Czech Social Democrat who was Czech Premier and also a European Union Commissioner for Employment, Social Affairs, and Equal Opportunities, a number of questions about the European Union today and its prospects, for example, the future of European integration, the possibilities of the European model of the welfare state, the relations between the European Union, other regions, and non-EU states, the solution of some global problems and conditions in Czech politics. The interviewer and the interviewee start mostly from similar left-wing points of view (for example, a critique of neoliberalism), but differ, for example, in their views of Russia and their assessment of Vaclav Havel. They see the future of the European Union in the social project of transforming global capitalism as it exists today.

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