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A Polish minister presents his views on the EU crisis and potential ways of dealing with the current problems.
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A leading Polish scholar offers a new look at the legendary U.S. President Woodrow Wilson and his more than realistic vision of the future of Europe.
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The Harmel Report constituted a genuine breakthrough in NATO’s strategic position on the Soviet Union and Prof. Robert Kupiecki presents its history as well as consequences.
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Polish analyst Ryszarda Formuszewicz offers a synthetic but vital picture of the political situation in Germany following the last elections. Could “the grand coalition” work? And how would it impact on the international position of the country?
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Tomasz Krawczyk presents his original vision of Polish-German relations—from idealism to hard realism.
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Łukasz Jurczyszyn looks at Emmanuel Macron’s presidency as a political fact and a social phenomenon, pointing to its pluses and problems.
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Last year’s Russian-Belarussian manoeuvres in Belarus gave rise to many strategic questions, which Wojciech Lorenz tries to answer.
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An original essay on Polish-Hungarian relations in the broad sense.
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The change in China’s internal and external policy under Xi Jingping confirms the country’s pursuit of broader reform.
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Sovereign Bealurus is a important factor of Polish Foreign Policy. Potential unification of this country with Russia is a horrible worsening of Polish Political situation.
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The article illustrates the relationship between the perception of the law and its practical application. For this purpose, a case was used in which controversies arose concerning the application of the Act on shaping the agricultural system. Those controversies boiled down to the question of whether the regulations contained in this Act and concerning the acquisi- tion of agricultural real estate should also apply in the case of the transformation of a limited liability company into a limited partnership. The deliberations performed showed that the legal assessment of the same issue may differ depending on whether the person making the assessment adheres to a positivist or natural law perception. The former tends to lead the interpreter to rely mainly on a literal interpretation, while the latter tends to rely on other methods of interpretation, including a functional-objective interpretation. The latter even implies the need to verify positive law and to concretise legal norms in atypical cases. Such an approach allows to avoid legal assessments that lead to consequences that are, on the one hand, in line with the literal reading of the rules and, on the other hand, irrational and therefore unjust and wrong.
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The question of responsibility in general, and in particular forms of legal responsibility was, is and will be an actual problem of any social system. The social system is as stable and progressive as the principles and norms of responsible behavior are respected and implemented. Responsible behavior cannot be achieved by declarations and proclamations of norms, but rather, represents a permanent activity on the effectuation of legal norms by the administrative authority in the environment of a stable and progressive policy determined by the executive authority. In this way, responsible action is advocated and favored, as well as awareness of the inevitability of responsible work. Otherwise, sanctions will follow, which are the consequences of not complying with legal norms. The paper analyzes the legal and political responsibility of personnel in the narrower and broader sense, as well as all other forms of legal responsibility of politicians (criminal, civil, misdemeanor, and disciplinary). The legal and political responsibility of politicians is a consequence of the violation of the legal norm/s. Those legal norms explicitly instruct politicians to perform their duties in a certain way and according to a certain procedure. Hence the determination to objectively analyze the forms of legal responsibility of politicians and officials of the executive and administrative authorities in Bosnia and Herzegovina through a descriptive method. The results of the analysis indicate that the political responsibility of officials in our country is de facto extralegal, and therefore not regulated by legal norms. This practically means that the political responsibility of officials in Bosnia and Herzegovina is completely outside the sphere of law, which is nonsense.
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Pitanje odgovornosti općenito, a posebno oblika pravne odgvornosti, bilo je, jeste i biće aktuelan problem bilo kog društvenog sistema. Društveni sistem je zapravo onoliko stabilan i progresivan, koliko se poštuju i ostvaruju principi i norme odgovornog ponašanja. Odgovorno ponašanje se ne može postići dekleracijama i proklamiranjem normi, već to predstavlja permanentnu aktivnost na efektuiranju pravnih normi od strane upravne vlasti u ambijentu stabilne i progresivne politike koju utvrđuje izvršna vlast. Na ovaj način se zagovara i favorizira odgovorno djelovanje, te svijest o neminovnosti odgovornog rada. U protivnom, slijede sankcije koje su posljedice nepoštivanja pravnih normi. Rad analizira pravno političku odgovornost kadrova u užem i širem smislu, kao i sve druge oblike pravne odgovornosti političkih funkcionera (krivičnu, građansku, prekršajnu i disciplinsku). Pravna politička odgovornost političkih funkcionera je posljedica povrede pravne norme/i. Te pravne norme političkim funkcionerima eksplicitno nalažu izvršavanje njihovih poslova na određeni način i po određenom postupku. Otud i opredjeljenje da na objektivnoj ravni, putem deskriptivne metode analiziramo oblike pravne odgovornosti političkih funkcionera i službenika izvršne i upravne vlasti u Bosni i Hercegovini. Rezultati analize ukazuju da je politička odgovornost funkcionera u našoj zemlji de facto vanpravna, pa zbog toga i nije regulisana pravnim normama. To praktično znači da je politička odgovornost funkcionera u Bosni i Hercegovini u potpunosti izvan sfere prava, što je nonsens.
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An organisational entity (non-governmental organisation, company, public institution or authority) should not be seen socially responsible if its staff is not satisfied and motivated. However, despite many publications of social responsibility in the literature, papers focusing on the social responsibility of the organisation towards employees are rare. The following article aims to analyse the social responsibility of an atypical NGO towards its employees. In this regard, a survey conducted by using one questionnaire was used. The analysis is based on several aspects of the organisations’s social responsibility towards employees, namely recruitment and employees’ retention, employees' health and safety, effects generated by the employees’ satisfaction and dissatisfaction, reward system. The study revealed that the workplace atmosphere, the organisation’s concern towards the employees' problems, as well as the reward for their efforts leads to the increasing their loyalty and to achieving high performances.
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The aim of this study is to empirical analysis of the potential relationship between quality of mayors and local governments involvement in EU funding projects. This chapter presents the results of the data analysis using ANOVA method. The empirical result indicate potentially existing relationships between the quality of mayors and the scope of local government involvement in EU funding projects.
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The system of obligations to provide means of transport to the state in the period of the Second Polish Republic included both the obligations to provide them during peacetime and in the event of mobilisation or an outbreak of war. The present analysis covers only the latter case, i.e. it concerns the legal regulations on handing over, for remuneration, draught animals, carts, motor vehicles and bicycles for the defence of the state. The author reviews the Polish interwar legislation, paying attention to its evolution, and also analyses of the legal procedures related to the obligation to fulfi l administrative duties examined in the article.
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The role and importance of rural areas for the overall socio-economic development of the European Union is underestimated, also often neglected. The widespread discussion of this perception in the last few years and the factors that determine it have catalyzed the process of finding flexible and innovative solutions to valorize the potential of these areas. The instrument for achieving this change is the Long-term vision for EU`s rural areas in the horizon 2040, which aims to model stronger, connected, sustainable and prosperous rural areas within the Community.
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The article discusses the legal nature of concession contracts for works or services. It draws attention to the fact that such contracts can be simultaneously described as both civil law and public law contracts, assuming that appropriate provisions are applied and the right basis is determined — a normative one or that of the science of administrative law and public economic law. These conclusions are justified by the fact of the interpenetration and mutual interaction, in the legal regulation of concession contracts, of the dominant principles of public law (equal treatment, order to protect competition) and the principles of private law (limited, but not excluded freedom of contract).
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Public procurement can play an important role in stimulating economic development. Apart from the simple creation of demand, it is now also important to use it to modernize the economy. However, the increase of innovativeness in public procurement depends on many factors. In the first place, organizational instruments are indicated, especially those related to the planning and procurement policy of the state and local government, as well as the professionalization of servicing contracts concluded to meet public needs. What counts in the background is the use of pro-innovative procedural solutions, an appropriately targeted description of the subject of the contract supported by the results of market research and pre-commercial procurement, greater use of negotiation and tender procedures and competitions, as well as the recently available innovative partnership. Moreover, the following factors are important: rationalization of the conditions required from contractors, wider use of qualitative criteria for the evaluation of tenders, and ensuring effective supervision over the implementation of public procurement contracts.
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