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European vacuum cleaners will play third league. Deputy who agrees on everything. Is Merkel a terrorist? Only a few years ago I used the Singaporean chewing gum ban as an example of bureaucratic absurdity. Now we can find a lot more examples...
No pain, no medals. Taxes down? Conflict and symbiosis. There’s nothing better than mutual hand-shaking, together with medal awarding. You deserve a gold one, if you are lucky enough to spend 25 years sitting on a Euro-deputy’s chair. If...
There are people who, no matter which emotions they arouse in others, become the point of reference for the contemporaries. Tadeusz Mazowiecki was such a person. When met personally for the first time, he seemed to be humble, withdrawn, reserved...
The most important news of this week was connected with the US and the debt ceiling debate. But let´s start as usual with Europe. Austerity measures are more and more unpopular. One of the examples today is Ireland. Its budget proposal is not...
Irish voters saved senators’ chairs. Doubts in the IMF. Brussels watches over vacuum cleaners. Big cars are said to be confidence enhancers. Is this theory applicable to the big Europe? Nick Clegg, leader of the British liberals, said in a...
Francis Fukuyama is well known for his “the end of history” hypothesis. His latest book The Origins of Political Order indeed counters his aforementioned book from 1992. In the work, published in 2011 and said to be the first of two volumes,...
Government budget for 2014 for Slovakia? Welcome to 1984! That’s how a discussion about the 2014 government budget proposal could be summarised. Reality in stark contrast to official claims – that was the foundation of Orwell’s novel...
Eurosceptic Barosso. Advertising giant. Risky bank purchases. Government’s clerks are shut down in the United States, and only those who send people to prison are still at work. So far, the world hasn’t noticed it yet, except for the unlucky...
What did not succeed in Germany proved successful in Austria. For the first time a pure euro-skeptic party, founded by a billionaire, Frank Stronach, will enter into the Austrian parliament, with 5.8 percent of total votes. It seems that euro-skepticism...
The German election – actually the most important EU election – ended in Angela Merkel’s victory. On the other hand, the election ended in the defeat of a strong right-wing policy. It seems that Merkel is willing to create a big and strong...
