Politics

It is very common to mistake social policy for socialism.

The one-day-long event, held on 27 September in the conference room of Hotel Benczúr in Budapest, was connected with the European Citizens’ Initiative for Media Pluralism.

Europe has recently seen a fearful rise in the popularity of radical ideologies.

Christian Lindner has announced a clear, new beginning for his party and a far-reaching change of its image.

Eurosceptic Barosso. Advertising giant. Risky bank purchases.

It seems that Merkel is willing to create a big and strong coalition with German socialists and, as it is in politics, it means a lot of compromises in the field of economy, austerity measures and social policy.

However, the party missed the absolute majority and lost its coalition partner, the liberal FDP.

A bit different anniversary. Club of the sinking ones has new members. The French are shouting: „That’s enough”!

In the following paragraphs, I will try to highlight some of the changes in Czech political culture in the past decade using data from the Chamber of Deputies of the Parliament of the Czech Republic over the third (1998-2002), fourth (2002-2006) and fifth (2006-2010) election periods.

The political instability in the Czech Republic has got another dimension. After the decay of leading governmental coalition, early parliamentary election is coming. It is repeating again and again, one could add...