Laura Saarikoski

Journalist, Editor-in-chief at leading Finish daily Helsingin Sanomat.

Laura Saarikoski, journalist, Editor-in-chief at Helsingin Sanomat, Helsinki, Finland

Fotocredit: Samuli Pulkkinen

Lorenzo Pregliasco

Journalist, specialist in political communication and public opinion research

Lorenzo Pregliasco, journalist, political analyst and expert in political communication. He contributed to newspapers and magazines such as «L’Espresso», «Limes», «La Stampa», «Politico Europe», «il Sole 24 Ore».

Martin Ehl

Journalist and author

Martin Ehl, Ph.D. (b. 1973), journalist and author.

Reporter of Czech economic daily Hospodářské noviny (hn.cz) since 2001; since January of 2006 till June 2018 Chief International Editor, now Chief Analyst. Previously working in various Czech written media since 1992. Senior Fellow at the Visegrad Insight (visegradinsight.eu). Covering Central Europe, transatlantic relations, security issues and business related to defense and energy. Author of books on Central Europe and globalisation, previously also teaching at Czech universities.

Dr. Ruzha Smilova

Political Science Department of Sofia University

Dr. Ruzha Smilova teaches contemporary political philosophy and history of political ideas at the Political Science Department of Sofia University, and is also a program director at the Centre for Liberal Strategies in Sofia, Bulgaria. Her academic research is focused on such issues as the authority of democracy, normative and positive theories of democracy and the relation media-democracy. At the CLS she is involved in research and policy-related projects on quality of representative institutions in Central and Eastern Europe, on the rise of illiberal populism, the relation media and democracy, voting behaviour, participation in politics, among others.

Piotr Buras

European Council on Foreign Relations

Piotr Buras is the head of the Warsaw office of the European Council on Foreign Relations. His topics of focus include Germany’s EU and foreign policy, Poland in the EU, and EU politics.

Buras is a journalist, author, and expert on German and European politics. Between 2008 and 2012 he worked as a columnist and Berlin correspondent for Gazeta Wyborcza, the biggest Polish daily newspaper. He started his professional career in the late 1990s at the Center for International Relations in Warsaw, one of the first Polish think-tanks. He continued his career at the Institute for German Studies at the University of Birmingham and at the University of Wroclaw (Poland). He was also a visiting fellow at the Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik in Berlin. His recent book Moslems and the Other Germans. The Reinvention of the Berlin Republic was published in Polish in 2011.