
Karl-Peter Schwarz
GIS Guest Expert Karl-Peter Schwarz graduated from the University of Vienna in history and Italian literature. He worked 35 years for several media in print, radio and television, among them Die Presse (Vienna), Austrian Radio and Television (ORF), Die Welt (Berlin), Die Woche (Hamburg) and Wirtschaftsblatt (Vienna). He was a foreign correspondent in Rome and in Prague. From 2000 to 2017 he covered political affairs in several Central- and Southeastern European countries for Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. He has a weekly column in Die Presse and publishes in several German newspapers.
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GIS Essay: A governance tip from the Republic of Venice
Politics have become increasingly dysfunctional in Western democracies. As public debate degenerates into warfare, citizens’ faith in the system wanes. Much of the blame is rightly put on the doorstep of political parties, but can they be fixed? The most enduring republic in Europe’s history offers surprising insight.

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Austria and Visegrad: Interests converge in Central Europe
The Visegrad Group, consisting of the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia, initially had little political significance. But with pressure from EU institutions and other member states increasing, the forum has grown in significance. And though it originally wanted to exclude Austria, recently Vienna has found much in common with ...

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Opinion: The new American left and its influence on the election
Ahead of the November 3 elections in the U.S., the Democratic Party has cobbled together a broad but fragile anti-Trump coalition. Older, centrist Democrats and a young socialist faction have come to a compromise in hopes of boosting their candidate’s chances. But even in the event of a victory for ...

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Relevance beyond the crisis: The EU faces stress tests
Some fundamental epidemiologic properties of the Sars-CoV-2 virus remain to be sorted out. However, it is already clear that the pandemic has not imparted a shared sense of purpose on EU member states. Fissures in the European project, which were already evident long before March 2020, are becoming more pronounced ...

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