In mid-May Centre for International Relations was hosting five public leaders from Myanmar, Honduras, Bolivia and Nicaragua - participants of the Rising Stars Alumni Program: Theory and Practice for Emerging Democratic Leaders. During week long sessions, workshops and studio visits, the CIR’s guests found out on Poland’s example how the process of transformation from totalitarian state into a well-functioning democracy and market economy looked like, and how the Polish civil society was created.

On May 6 2014 in Riga a seminar on the Visegrad Group's and the Baltic states' strategic dialogue was held. It was attended by CIR's analyst, Andrzej Turkowski. During the seminar and public discussion such issues as: cooperation of V4 + B3 countries in terms of the Eastern Partnership, energy, transport and environmental protection were addressed.

In November 2013, qhen the revolution began in Ukraine, Germany was still stuck in a political vacuum. After the September parliamentary elections, the German political discourse was dominated by issues related to the results of the elections and the formation of a new government - write Liana Fix and Andrea Gawrich in the latest issue of the German Bulletin entitled "German foreign policy and the revolution in Ukraine".