On the 7th and 8th November 2011, the president of IVO Grigorij Mesežnikov attended the conference "Analyze the changing world from the perspective of Central Europe" organized on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of its foundation in Prague by French Institute for Social Science Research (CEFRES) under the auspices of the French Embassy in the Czech Republic and with the participation of Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Charles University in Prague, École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and Centre d'études et de recherches internationales Sciences Po-CNRS.
Grigorij Mesežnikov discussed with Michel Perottino from Charles University and CEFRES and Anna Pacześniak from University of Wroclaw (Poland) about the contexts of populist policies in Central Europe, the expressions of Euro-skepticism in political and public life in the EU "new" and "old" member states. Discussion in thematic round table, dedicated to issues of populism and Euro-skepticism, was chaired by director of CEFRES Francois Mayer.
