Short vita
Toni Skorić works as Desk Officer for European Dialogue at the Europe Desk of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom in Potsdam. Before that he served as a Project Manager for Central Europe and the Baltic States in the Prague office of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom. In addition, he gained work experience as an Expert Associate at the Department for International Affairs in the Croatian Parliament, an intern in the German Bundestag and as a trainee in the Directorate General for Translation of the European Parliament in Luxembourg. He studied German and Czech Language and Literature for Translators at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences of the University of Zagreb. He also holds a Master’s degree in International Relations and Diplomacy from the Open University of Catalonia. He speaks Croatian, English, German and Czech.
Contributions
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How Political Are the Paris Olympics?
The Olympics have always been inherently political. The Summer Games in Paris, by addressing the global sustainability imperative, acknowledging the changing threat of international terrorism, practicing public diplomacy and maneuvering the shaky political terrain of the host country, are another example that politics and global sports events are inextricably intertwined.
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Viktor Orbán’s Close Ties to Putin’s Russia Have Become Increasingly Dangerous for Him
Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has long played with the thought of connecting to the East. Long before the war in Ukraine, Hungary's proximity to Russia provoked the EU. Orbán's Putin-friendly attitude could become a problem even in his own country. For the first time since 2010, the opposition stands a chance against the Prime Minister and his Fidesz party.
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Lessons From the Hungarian Opposition Primaries
Six Hungarian opposition parties from across the political spectrum held the country’s first national primary contest in order to choose the joint candidates who will take on the country’s long-serving and increasingly autocratic prime minister Viktor Orbán and his Fidesz party in the next parliamentary elections in 2022. Andrea Virág, Director of strategy at Republikon Institute, presents key takeaways from the Hungarian opposition primaries.
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From independence to Europe. What comes next?
In recent years, the Foundation for Freedom has commemorated the "peaceful revolutions of freedom" thirty years ago in numerous events and publications, which found perhaps their most emblematic expression in German reunification. However, this revolutionary democratic change did not extend to the entire continent. Particularly the countries of the former Yugoslavia suffered from excesses of violence.
