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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 .
We Are All Russians Now
For some time after reading these news I was ready to resign from the contempt to the Western stereotype entitled ‘Sooner or later Russia will get its own colour revolution’. At first the current events in Russia may really seem as a repetition of Ukrainan Orange revolution. Luckily, situation is a bit more complicated. Oleksiy Radynski comments on protests in Russia. Continue reading
Michalski: Praise of Continuation
“Love is more important than power”, yet the former-current Polish Prime Minister, the social anaesthesiologist, in the evening of the election, mentioned his PR person by name and thanked him for getting him to power. He knows who he should thank and what for. The weak government in Poland survived. Why does it make me happy? – Cezary Michalski.
Will democracy survive a second wave of global economic crisis? (3)
We asked a group of economists and publicists the following question:
Today, it seems obvious that private companies, like credit rating agencies, have a potentially greater influence on the state of society than democratically elected institutions. Capital globalised, democracy did not. Is it possible to change that and how? Will democracy survive a second wave of global economic crisis? - Jerzy Osiatynski
Will democracy survive a second wave of global economic crisis? (2)
We asked a group of economists and publicists the following question:
Today, it seems obvious that private companies, like credit rating agencies, have a potentially greater influence on the state of society than democratically elected institutions. Capital globalised, democracy did not. Is it possible to change that and how? Will democracy survive a second wave of global economic crisis? - Dominika Wielowieyska
Will democracy survive a second wave of global economic crisis? (1)
We asked a group of economists and publicists the following question:
Today, it seems obvious that private companies, like credit rating agencies, have a potentially greater influence on the state of society than democratically elected institutions. Capital globalised, democracy did not. Is it possible to change that and how? Will democracy survive a second wave of global economic crisis? - Ryszard Petru
Smoleński: The End of Gaddafi. Can we sigh with relief?
After some moments of justified euphoria because of overthrowing a hideous regime the time comes to ask a couple of difficult questions. It is going to depend on the answers as to who is going to establish the rules of the new order and what is going to be the reality after the rebellion. And that is why we can’t sigh with relief just yet. - Jan Smoleński on situation in Libya after the fall of Gaddafi. Continue reading
Radynski: Not a Single Word about Football
The basic difference between the apocalypse and Euro 2012 is that after the latter’s end we shall actually have to somehow live in our countries. Oleksiy Radynski comments on Euro 2012: Continue reading
Hunt: One night in London
‘It’s like everyone is angry – they just don’t know why yet.’ This comment, from a man I met on Mare Street, Hackney, is probably the best explanation I’ve heard yet for the riots. – London riots report by Nick Hunt. Continue reading
Malko: Summer Sales
The British riots will become more interesting only when we stop diagnosing them, analysing and segregating from over a cup of tea, when we drop our attempts to understand them from the angle of living rooms and instead we try to look at our living rooms from the angle of burning streets. Jędrek Malko comments on London Riots. Continue reading
