German Minister of Health, Herrmann Gröhe, has recently demanded that all forms of suicide assistance should become punishable under criminal law. Today helping other people to commit suicide if they have a serious medical condition is not...
January 27, 2014 6:42 pm / 4 comments
In a recent talk, Hans-Werner Sinn, professor of economics at Munich University and head of the ifo-Institute of economic research in Munich, hit the nail on the head when he said: “Anybody who believes that a highly developed industrial country...
January 27, 2014 6:34 pm / 1 comment
The Bitcoin barrage certainly towers prominently among the 2013 phenomena. Having soared in price in a humongous manner and the razzle-dazzle of its many a rags-to-riches story eclipse the true face of this nouvelle contraption.
A certain Norwegian...
January 26, 2014 6:03 pm / 3 comments
Rebuilding the Union on a Radically Parliamentarian Basis
The functioning of the Union shall be founded on representative democracy.
Treaty of Lisbon, article 10
Crisis, a moment for improvement
The debate on the European Union has been increasingly...
January 20, 2014 11:46 pm / 2 comments
The 16th issue of Liberte! quarterly entitled “Gdzie jest władza?” (“Where is authority?”) has been available in Empik, Relay and Inmedio news agent’s chains since 3rd January. We have increased the circulation...
January 20, 2014 10:56 pm / 2 comments
The Eurocrisis became boring in 2013, didn’t it?
Do you remember 2012? In the spring, Greece bankrupted, subsequently it had parliament elections twice and the whole Europe was afraid of a possible victory of SYRIZA communists or Golden Dawn...
January 13, 2014 3:57 pm / no comments
Lord Palmerston once famously stated: “England has no eternal friends, England has no perpetual enemies, England has only eternal and perpetual interests”. Recently, the first part of this sentence is closer to the truth than ever.
British...
January 12, 2014 3:28 pm / 48 comments
To make a liberal dissert of populism, first it should be cleaned of non-liberal and populist additives. What makes me cautious about the concept of this publication, and not only this one, is that populism is presented as a pair to nationalism....
January 8, 2014 12:07 am / no comments
In 1991 a French political scientist and Islam specialist, Gilles Kepel, wrote La revanche de Dieu. Chrétiens, juifs et musulmans à la reconquête du monde (The Revenge of God: the Resurgence of Islam, Christianity and Judaism in the Modern...
January 6, 2014 11:20 pm / no comments
On October 25, law and history students occupied the main building of the Sofia University, one of the city’s landmarks. The reason: their professor, country’s Constitutional Court chairman, did not show up for a lecture after...
December 30, 2013 12:47 pm / 1 comment