 For it he has headed its Frankfurt and Prague branches, and has presided over their EUNIC, the European Network of Institutes of Culture, local clusters.He's been a long time Berlin, Vienna and Prague based writer and commentator, on Central Europe transitions and contemporary culture, with several international media and political institutes.As a known flying correspondent, he has been rewarded at the "Salvador de Madariaga" European Journalism Prize, at the "Cirilo Rodrigo" Foreign Correspondence Award and the "Larra" Prize.