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
Short description of the problem: Privatization of library services (contract management) to increase their quality.
Country: USA
Type of local government: County
Name of local government: Riverside County
Years of operations: 1997 –...
January 20, 2014 10:52 pm / 2 comments
This year a group of Lithuanians has initiated a referendum on banning land sale to foreigners. For such a referendum to be held, the group needed to collect at least 300,000 signatures of Lithuanian citizens in three months.
In December the...
December 16, 2013 7:37 pm / 2 comments
Thank you, Felicita, Susanne and the ELF bureau, for inviting me to deliver this speech. Tonight, I could tell you a story about the traditions of liberalism in the various member states of the European Union. After all, each country has its...
December 15, 2013 12:43 pm / 25 comments
This year, in September, Warsaw witnessed perhaps the biggest trade unions’ protest for a very long time. Three largest of the national trade unions occupied the streets for nearly three days. This group of over one hundred thousand people...
December 2, 2013 3:11 pm / no comments
The way we fight against anti-Semitism cannot be granted as a merit or the humanitarian gesture. It’s neither only about the struggle for the dignity of the Jews, but in the same way it’s our struggle for our own dignity. It’s about every...
November 25, 2013 12:18 am / 95 comments
A storm of protest and commentaries has been unleashed after, at the beginning of June 2013, American traitor/ whistle-blower Edward Snowden released via English-language mass media (initially it was The Guardian and The Washington Post) the...
November 18, 2013 4:39 pm / 192 comments
The special connection between a federal or non-centralised state structure on the one hand and economic development on the other has become increasingly important in recent years, not least because of the Eurozone debt crisis.
Politically,...
November 13, 2013 12:33 am / 646 comments
Given the current debate on the EU’s energy security issue, it is worth remembering the 1973 U.S. oil crisis. What lessons can the 2013 Europe learn from those 40-year-old events?
The misunderstood story of the 1973 oil crisis
It’s...
October 2, 2013 10:11 am / no comments
Last week, Canadian Fraser Institute released new rankings of economic freedom in the world which is measured by a tool called “Economic Freedom of the World Index”. The results, calculated and presented since 1996 with participation...
September 23, 2013 9:40 pm / 11 comments