Central European Papers, 2021 (roč. 9), číslo 1

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Central European Papers 2021, 9(1)  

PRIVATE FOUNDATION IN THE POLISH LEGAL SYSTEM AS A SPECIFIC INSTITUTION OF THE CIVIL SOCIETY

Joanna PODGÓRSKA-RYKAŁA, Marcin KĘPA

Central European Papers 2021, 9(1):19-33 | DOI: 10.25142/cep.2021.009  

The paper is an attempt to analyze the selected features and legal regulations related to foundation’s institutions, as defined in Polish law, as the specific institution of the civil society. As Authors, we are trying to follow the path of one of the most important problems regarding the theory on the civil society,  taking the form of the question about locating the civil society somewhere between the public and private spheres. These issues can be especially clearly illustrated with an example or foundation’s institutions, as listing socially or economically useful goals by the lawmakers determine some scope of essential problems seen...

Central Europe Within the European Union

Iván BÁBA

Central European Papers 2021, 9(1):35-53 | DOI: 10.25142/cep.2021.002  

The trauma of World War II led the best European politicians of the postwar era to the insight that future wars in Europe could be avoided through eliminating any potential of military conflict. Seventy years have passedsince then, andthe world, including Europe, has changed. Currently the Brexit and international migration are a big challenges for Europe. The historical experiences of peoples in Central Europe, the series of events in the past two hundred years fundamentally define the “perception of security” within these communities. This sense   of and demand for security in turn have a key role in forging and shaping the international...

RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN POLITICAL PARTIES AND CHURCHES AS ACTORS OF PUBLIC POLICY IN SLOVAKIA

Dalibor MIKUŠ

Central European Papers 2021, 9(1):55-67 | DOI: 10.25142/cep.2021.007  

The political changes of 1989 affected almost all areas of social life in a decisive manner. In the conditions of religiously based Slovakia, religious freedom is objectively considered one of the key achievements of the velvet revolution. In the process of democratization, the subordination of churches and religious societies to the state was removed, thus creating a new quality of relations. So far, however, there has been no separation of state and churches in terms of their funding, which is the subject of public discussion in the long run. Political parties are key actors in the whole process, as they have the political power to bring about concrete...

„Trolleyology” and autonomous vehicles – moral and legal questions on the application of the doctrine of double effect

Lea PŐDÖR

Central European Papers 2021, 9(1):69-82 | DOI: 10.25142/cep.2021.004  

The paper focuses on a classical problem of ethics and law: the doctrine of double effect (DDE). Nowadays the doctrine is more and more popular since AI-technology and super- intelligent machines have been developing rapidly. Maybe autonomous vehicles’ most difficult dilemma is the following scenario: an autonomous car gets into an extreme road accident (collision) and the software should “decide” which direction-alternative to choose, but all of those possibilities end with death of human(s). This is a problem which requires  a morally and legally justified answer. The principle emphasizes how to achieve a moral justification, what...

SOCIAL JUSTICE AND VALORISATION OF OLD AGE PENSIONS IN THE SLOVAK REPUBLIC 2012-2021

Richard GEFFERT

Central European Papers 2021, 9(1):83-98 | DOI: 10.25142/cep.2021.006  

Social justice, as one of the key principles of social policy, is the essence of (re)distribution of society’s resources in the state. How it is understood and implemented in socio-political and economic practice depends on the axiological orientation of subjects who interpret and implement it. The aim of this paper is to examine how social justice is understood by government groups in the Slovak Republic by means of the valorisation mechanisms for old age pensions over the period 2012–2021.

Andrea SZABÓ, Dániel OROSS, Viktor PAPHÁZI, Zsanett  POKORNYI,  Annamária SEBESTYÉN; A magyar társadalom politikai értékei, identitásmintázatai, 2020 [Political Values, identity Patterns of hungarian Society, 2020]

Monika Balatoni

Central European Papers 2021, 9(1):101-103  

Budapest: TK PTI, Eötvös Loránd Kutatási Hálózat 2021, 119 pages. ISBN 978-963-418-043-2

Interview

Géza JESZENSZKY

Central European Papers 2021, 9(1):9-15  

GÉZA JESZENSZKY (Budapest, 1941). Historian, D. Phil. (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest). Banned from higher education in 1959, acquired a degree in history and English in 1966. Was schoolteacher, then librarian, from 1976 to 2011 taught modern history at what is today Corvinus University of Budapest. Was Fulbright Visiting Professor at UC Santa Barbara in 1984–86. One of the founders of the Hungarian Democartic Forum, was Foreign Minister in the first non-Communist government (1990–94), Ambassador to the United States of America in 1998–2002, and to Norway and Iceland in 2011–14.He is the author of a large number of...