During the closed roundtable, organized by the Centre for International Relations on December 10, 2018, the invited experts on Sino-Polish relations were informed about the findings of the project "Comparative analysis of the approach towards China: V4+ and One Belt One Road" implemented in partnership with renowned European think tanks: Belgrade Fund for Political Excellence (BFPE) from Serbia, HAS Centre for Economic and Regional Studies, Institute of World Economics from Hungary, Institute of Asian Studies from Slovakia, and Prague Security Studies Institute from Czechia (project's leader), with the support of the International Visegrad Fund. Recent developments in China – Poland relations were also discussed.

Dr Bruno Surdel, Centre for International Relations’s expert on China, delivered a lecture for international students of Vistula University about Chinese investments in V4 countries and Serbia. The event was organised in the framework of the project “Comparative analysis of the approach towards China: V4+ and One Belt One Road” implemented in partnership with renowned European think tanks: Belgrade Fund for Political Excellence (BFPE) from Serbia, HAS Centre for Economic and Regional Studies, Institute of World Economics from Hungary, Institute of Asian Studies from Slovakia, and Prague Security Studies Institute from Czechia (project’s leader), with the support of the International Visegrad Fund.

Ambassador, Janusz Reiter - Founder and Chairman of the Board of Center for International Relations, participated in the Bergedorf Round Table conference, which was devoted to the topic of strengthening the European cohesion. The meeting, which took place in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Warsaw, was attended by politicians, think tanks representatives, scholars, and media from European Union countries and outside the EU.

8-9 June 2018 in Warsaw the Congress of international experts Global Leader organized by the Pulaski Foundation took place. CIR was a strategic partner of the event. CIR President, Małgorzata Bonikowska PhD, moderated two meetings - Debates of the Ambassadors: How to strengthen the presence of Poles in international institutions? and the Let's start with ourselves - what are our relations? discussion. 

Does renewed nationalism threaten the European project? How can and how should Europe, the European Union, but also its individual member states react to the apparently new rise of nationalism in European countries? How does the newly emerged nationalism look like? These and other questions were tried to be answered by participants of European Roundtable, organized by Konrad Adenauer Foundation in Barcelona on 1-3 of June 2018. 

The report entitled The Prague Manual. How to Tailor National Strategy Using Lessons Learned from Countering Kremlin’s Hostile Subversive Operations in Central and Eastern Europe focuses on the analysis of Central European initiatives, aimed to the identification, analysis, disclosure and countering Russian subversive activity.

Center for International Relations together with Konrad Adenauer Foundation and Center for Dialogue and Analysis THINKTANK organized R-Evolution? Trends of the future world Debate. The meeting took place on 25th of May in Social Innovations Home “Dreamers and Craftsmen”. During the discussion invited guests and experts tried to identify and define trends, which will shape “Western civilization” all along the next century and also work out the recommendation, how to face it.