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Ostolski: Young Poles outraged by ACTA
The previous reforms effectively deprived people of many entitlements, but they were consistent with the overall message of the present-day system: the state is not responsible for your well-being, no one has an automatic right right to a “good life”, you can only expect to be left alone. Like it or not, the internet policy is the ultimate test of this promise. Internet users, especially the youth, understand that with ACTA the “System” is breaking even this modest promise to leave people alone. Adam Ostolski comments on Polish ACTA protests. Continue reading
Smolenski: Delivering Hungary’s late transformation bill, else Orban as a symptom
To understand the current scenario, one has to look at it from the perspective of the changes over the last 22 years, their beginnings rooted in the “dilemma of simultaneity” with which the democratic reformers in Hungary were confronted.
Jan Smoleński on the situation in Hungary .
