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Benjamin Cunningham
Benjamin Cunningham

Benjamin Cunningham is a writer, journalist and PhD candidate at the University of Barcelona. He was formerly editor-in-chief of The Prague Post, a senior editor with The Slovak Spectator and a Prague-based correspondent for The Economist. His book “The Liar” will be published by Public Affairs in 2022.

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Kalush Orchestra from Ukraine singing Stefania perform during the first semi final at the Eurovision Song Contest in Turin, Italy, Tuesday, May 10, 2022.

Politics vs Pop Culture

Eurovision says quite a lot about how Europeans feel about one another.

Some Slovak carmakers, including Nitra-based Jaguar Land Rover, were forced to suspend production.

Check the locker room at your local gym for economic impacts of the war

Russia’s immoral invasion of Ukraine is pushing many economic forecasts downward.

Zelensky's messages are meant to inspire, not inform

Social media feels like a particularly bad way to understand something as complex as war.

Russian President Vladimir Putin stands while waiting for Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko prior to their talks in Moscow, on March 11, 2022.

Slovakia is one place where Putin will first look to test western resolve

When I consider what dinner conversations over Christmas carp later this year might look like, I feel sick.

Defence Minister Jaroslav Naď and US Secretary of State Antony Blinken signed the US-Slovak Defence Cooparetion Agreement in Washington on February 3.

Americans might start to wonder why they bother

Which signatory to the U.S.-Slovak Defense Cooperation Agreement is more likely to need help defending itself?

EC President Ursula von der Leyen speaking at the 2021 World Economic Forum in Davos, taking place online.

The Davos crowd might consider meeting online from here on out

With a little luck, even the caviar companies will survive.

Viktor Orbán (right) and Andrej Babiš during the latter's campaign rally in Ústí nad Labem in early October 2021.

Populism is in decline

Positive trends don’t make headlines because the people who talk most publicly about these issues would need to admit their earlier theories were wrong.

I used to be optimistic. The pandemic proved me wrong

We all now have ample evidence that infections anywhere can impact people everywhere.

Health Minister Vladimir Lengvarsky

It's hard to be disappointed. You know you expected this all along

Low expectations excuse the Slovak government’s total lack of preparedness for this latest, completely predictable Covid wave.

Zuckerberg's timing is worse than suspicious

Let's hope it does not take half a century to fix Facebook's mess.

Green energy costs too much. But does it?

It is costly not to do away with fossil fuels.

Smartphones are deadlier than cigarettes

Instagram almost certainly accelerates what is already a global public health crisis.

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Anti-vax mobilisation starting to look like a losing strategy

Several countries no longer rely on positive motivation to get vaccinated against Covid.

Who was really impacted by Covid?

Covid has only further exposed the divide between Europe’s north and west and its south and east.

On Wednesday, a Belgian court of inquiry stated that in regards to the death of Slovak national Jozef Chovanec, no one bears responsibility.

Delta will fine the unvaccinated

Restaurants, shopping malls, even neighborhoods, cities and whole countries would seemingly have similar motivations for action.

Massive storms affected the whole of the Southern Moravia region, in the south-east of the Czech Republic. The area along the border with Slovakia was the hardest hit.

The truth about climate change

In the face of a global pandemic over the past 18 months, individual countries largely responded with their own sets of rules.

There are still things within our control

We can spend a few minutes less each day on our phones and a few more brushing our teeth.

Bratislava

Adjustments on local level may make all the difference in coping with climate change

You can’t fix the problem if you don’t know what the problem is.

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Surprise! When people work less, they feel better

If only democracies included some institution capable of regulating finance in a way that benefits most people.

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