The Iran Conflict and European Energy Security: One Month In

The post-Russia energy architecture was never post-geopolitical. It was just geopolitical in a different direction. Institute for Central Europe —…

When transparency becomes a vulnerability

A new ICE brief by our colleague Miro Sedlák raises a provocative but timely question: has @NATO’s hard‑won predictability become too…

Europe’s Defence Industrial Awakening: The Governance Gap Behind the Spending Surge

The EU has built a rulebook for defence-industrial coordination and the first tranche of money to start funding the factories.…

District Heating Under Hybrid Attack: Europe’s Municipal Gap and Ukraine’s Resilience Model

Europe secured its gas pipelines and hardened its electricity grids. It left the last mile of heat delivery — the…

ACRONYM analysis: How have European attitudes toward migration evolved over the past decade?

This analysis examines public opinion on migration in France, Germany and the Visegrad countries between 2014 and 2024 using Eurobarometer…

What the Iran War Reveals About Europe’s Air Defence Gap

Europe diagnosed the problem correctly — but prescribed a three-year treatment for a condition that can become acute overnight. Institute…

The Iran Conflict and European Energy Security: Short- and Mid-Term Implications

This crisis is the strongest argument yet for accelerating clean-energy deployment as a hard security imperative. Institute for Central Europe…

Why Facts Are Not Enough

From Climate Inaction to Democratic Vulnerability: Psychological Barriers in the Age of Climate Disinformation ICE Perspective At the Institute for…

ACRONYM Policy Paper: Making Cooperation Possible: Narratives, Trust and Moral Frameworks in Europe’s Asylum and Migration Debate

Migration is one of the most polarising issues in Europe - not only because of its scale, but because of…

The first joint ICE and Pleronix analysis explores a realistic air-defense strategy for Europe

The first joint publication resulting from the new cooperation between the Institute for Central Europe (ICE) and Pleronix is the analysis “Affordable Sovereignty: A Realistic…

From Laggards to Leaders: Green Innovation and CEE’s Climate Opportunity

New ICE Policy Brief | October 2025 As Europe accelerates its push toward climate neutrality, Central and Eastern European (CEE)…

EU SAFE

The EU is launching a new mechanism aimed at supporting the European defense industry. Support for joint procurement and new…

Readiness 2030 – the EU’s plan to ReArm Europe

Our latest analysis dives into the European Commission’s “White Paper for European Defence” and the ambitious ”ReArm Europe Plan/Readiness 2030.”…

Life Cycle Management of Military Equipment: Experiences, Expectations and Opportunities for Collaboration

Research at ICE explores various options for cooperation in managing the life cycle of military equipment. This document is a…

How to counter controlled misinformation on social networks? Experiences from Ukraine, Georgia and Moldova

Although disinformation and conspiracies are not a new phenomenon in Slovakia or in the world, in recent years we have…

Handbook of disinformation campaigns

With the rise of information technology and the ever-increasing accessibility of the Internet to the masses, the dissemination of false…

Disinformation changes society and threatens the state

On the first of December, the event “Get info on disinformation” took place at the University of Matej Bel in…

Our Europe – An analysis of Slovak public attitudes towards the EU

The material is an output of the project “Our Europe - Nationwide Citizens' Consultation in Relation to EU Membership”, implemented…

Climate Security in Central Europe (Addressing the Challenges of Climate, Defence and Security Nexus)

Institute for Central Europe has completed a report on climate security in Central Europe, which was part of several months…

Climate Security in Central Europe: Challenges and Opportunities – Summary of a Public Workshop

On November 25, 2022, the Institute for central Europe (ICE) held an online workshop entitled “Climate Security in Central Europe:…

A Time for Action and Alignment: Climate Security in Slovakia

Climate security remains a concern, but a tertiary one, for Slovakia. This is one conclusion drawn from recent interviews with…

A national obligation: Modern air and missile defence for Slovakia

ICE analyst Fred Hardmann Lea discusses the responsibility of a government to protect its citizens. The air defence needs to…

Southeast Asia, the market for Slovak defence exports?

The Institute for Central Europe is pleased to be the first organization, besides those involved in the deal, to obtain…

Filling the gap – Russian withdrawal from global defense markets: An opportunity for Slovakia and its ZUZANA 2?

The Russian war in Ukraine also means the decisions of many states to invest more in their defenses. This means…

ZUZANA 2 and the future of Slovak defense exports in Europe

Slovak howitzer Zuzana is one of the few comprehensive products of the Slovak armaments industry. It has recently come to…

Slovak armour for the 21st century

Fred briefly wrote about the favorites in the historically largest tender on the Slovak defense, which can reach up to…

Fred’s remark on Slovak 8×8 Armoured Fighting Vehicle tender

In response to a request for submissions for a new armoured fighting vehicle (AFV) from the Slovak government five designs…

An opportunity for Central European air forces

Niektoré štáty aj v strednej Európe zvažujú prezbrojenie svojich vzdušných síl novými nadzvukovými stíhačkami. Okrem iných nevyhnutností, treba zabezpečiť aj…

Czech and Slovak air reforms: a chance for alignment

We are pleased to present our new collaborator: Frederick Hardman Lea.Fred is studying his next school - Crisis and Security…

Politici by měli více naslouchat vědeckým diskusím, říká ředitelka Institutu pro střední Evropu Katarína Cséfalvayová

Podílet se na vzniku kvalitní politiky založené na věcných argumentech a zasazené do evropského kontextu – to je nemalá ambice…

Macron udelil Cséfalvayovej francúzske štátne vyznamenanie

Exposlankyňa momentálne pôsobí ako riaditeľka Inštitútu pre centrálnu Európu. Bývalej predsedníčke Zahraničného výboru Národnej rady a prodekanke pre zahraničné vzťahy…

Deň, keď si Američania volia Ameriku

Vždy som mala o niečo bližšie k republikánskemu pohľadu na svet.... Zdá sa, že víťaza volieb Spojené štáty v najbližších…

Pakt o migrácii a azyle: kompromis, ktorý nevyšiel

Európska komisia 23. septembra predstavila svoj návrh Paktu o migrácii a azyle, ktorý má byť návrhom nového prístupu, predstavujúceho kompromis…

Čas hovoriť o revolúcii 5G

Telekomunikačná sieť piatej generácie je spájaná s veľkými očakávaniami. Len pred pár dňami prešla médiami málo povšimnutá informácia, že slovenská…

What our response to the COVID-19 pandemic tells us of our capacity to respond to climate change

In the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, many governments are currently implementing urgent, costly and radical measures to slow down…

« Faute de convaincre les pays rétifs à l’accueil des migrants, l’Europe cède à leurs exigences »

Katarina Csefalvayova, directrice du think tank Institute for Central Europe, et François Gemenne, chercheur en science politique, estiment, dans une…

Fungovanie rezortu obrany po prvých šiestich mesiacoch

Vyjadrenie Martina Fedora otázke webu Refresher k hodnoteniu fungovania rezortu obrany po prvých šiestich mesiacoch: Samozrejme na komplexnejšie hodnotenie fungovania…

Kam až siaha akademická sloboda?

Možno nastal čas pýtať sa, či aj akademická samospráva nepotrebuje pomoc zvonka. V ostatnom čase sa zdá, že skôr ako…

SMK chce konflikt, nie autonómiu.

Maďari na Slovensku potrebujú normálne, moderné zastupovanie svojich záujmov. Memorandum, ktoré zástupcovia SMK odovzdali premiérovi pri príležitosti stého výročia Trianonu,…