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Manowiecki, Piotr
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3 articles of this author have been cited in the European Press Review so far.
Estonia as a technological model for Poland
Use of the Internet is known to be widespread in Estonia, because of the country's strategic support for new technologies. Ivar Tallo, head of the "e-Governance Academy" in Estonia, recommends that Poland too should develop Internet technology, instead of investing EU funds in agriculture. "Internet access is guaranteed as a legal right in Estonia. Using my passport I can log into the government's website at any time and see what data on me are stored there. I can also pay my taxes and insurance contributions on the website, and even find out whether there is currently a legal case against me. The advantage of many kinds of administrative transactions being done on the Internet is that it makes corruption physically impossible.”
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More from the press review on the subject » Online media, » Poland, » Estonia
The Czech-Slovak imbalance
While relations between the Czech Republic and Slovakia have been very friendly in the 13 years since the division of Czechoslovakia, there is still "a dangerous tendency; a lack of symmetry," Piotr Manowiecki comments, adding that Czech influence predominates. "All the major Czech films get screened on Slovak television, but there are hardly any Slovak films in the Czech Republic. Slovaks can buy Czech newspapers and books anywhere in their country while Slovak newspapers are sold only by certain stores in Prague." Manowiecki asserts that this imbalance has become so pronounced that "the youngest generation of Czechs has problems understanding its peers from the east… The situation is very different among young Slovaks, who watch the Czech television programmes broadcast all over the country."
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More from the press review on the subject » Public Culture, » Czech Republic, » Slovakia
The sinking quality of the Czech press
In a survey of the Czech Republic's print media, Piotr Manowiecki reports that 87 percent of the nation's press is in foreign hands. Mlada Fronta Dnes and Lidove Noviny, the country's leading opinion-forming dailies, both belong to the Rheinische Post publishing house in Dusseldorf. "The main complaint against the German publishers of Czech newspapers is that they are constantly reducing the quality. In the early 1990s 'Lidove Noviny' held every promise of becoming a high-quality, opinion-forming newspaper. In fact, the standards were too high – people forgot that the newspaper had to sell... Critics say both newspapers have now abandoned quality in the hunt for profit. This, in combination with cost-cutting measures, has made the two newspapers very similar."
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