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Against History III: Mind the Borders!
The Slovak-Hungarian sentiment reaches new bottoms as the anniversary of the 1920 peace treaty looms. The Hungarian parliament adopts a commemoration to the 90th anniversary of the treaty that lost...
View ArticleStarting citizens’ initiatives is easier than stopping them
Erope’s political elite from Council to Parliament through Commission cannot have enough from congratulating itself for establishing the European Citizens’ Imitative, even though few countries actually...
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No Man’s Land – Ecology of a Minefield
I was traveling in Eastern Croatia in 2002 when a the post-war rebuilding was very well under way. I remember the young children of the war who always preferred to play on concrete because green meant...
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To Build a Road Across Libya from Tunisia to Egypt
To Build a Road from Tunisia to Egypt Reuters reports that Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi on Monday condemned violence by Libyan forces against civilians as “unacceptable” and said he was...
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European Parliament: Who is a lobbyist, really?
Pirker, MEP, not lobbyist 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,...
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Elvis (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...
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What 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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