Against History III: Mind the Borders!
I started, but did not really complete a series after the Schengen zone accession of the two countries to show municipalities and local communities that want to revert history and erect local borders...
View ArticleStarting citizens’ initiatives is easier than stopping them
First of all, there will be a lot of single issue politics, connected to lifestyle/hobby groups like hunting, bird watching or music downloading. A million signatures to abolish copyrights will be no...
View ArticleNo Man’s Land – Ecology of a Minefield
I remember the young children of the war who always preferred to play on concret because green meant death for them. And I remember forests with mines that have not seen mankind or any greater animal...
View ArticleTo Build a Road Across Libya from Tunisia to Egypt
It was only last summer that the two leaders held 'amity talks' in a big Bedouin tent in the center of Rome 'focusing on trade relations'. They celebrated the big friendship agreement singed two years...
View ArticleEuropean Parliament: Who is a lobbyist, really?
It appears to me that the term ‘lobbying’ is not very clear in Austria. Disgraced former MEP Ernst Strasser boasted that he was both a lobbyist and an MEP. His successor, Hubert Pirker owns a lobbying...
View ArticleElvis (Officially) Dead in Budapest
While national Fidesz, the strongest governing party in Europe, is taking an effort to finish a new constitution for Hungary, its municipal group in Budapest has different ambitions. The party has won...
View ArticleDSK should sort out his private life, not the euro crisis
For a long time it was seen as a virtue that the French press was not grilling politician’s private lives. I think that the French public owes a lot to NYC gossip press and NYPD when it was saved from...
View ArticleWhat is the EU (and Tony Blair) doing in the ‘peace process’?
When Sen. Mitchell, the Middle East envoy of the Obama administration resigned on Friday, I immediately asked ‘what is Tony Blair doing’? In the time-frame of a single weekend, the Israeli-Palestinian...
View ArticleBrown to replace Strauss-Kahn in IMF top job?
While Ms Merkel cannot discuss urgent matters on the euro crisis with the IMF while Mr Strauss-Kahn is detained in the United States, Mr Brown has already popped up again as a substitute for...
View ArticleThis time it was not different – bailouts in 2008 and 2011
With Alex Katsiatis we have written a post two years ago about the dysfunctional Greek politics in the context of the Hungarian bailout of ’08, predicting that the Greek party will lead to a similar...
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