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[Review] The Secret World of Arrietty and its lesson on virtue
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Having seen The Secret World of Arrietty (2010 Japan, 2012 USA), I must say it is a thoughtful anime (as Japanese animated movies are called) and its 95 minutes proved to be a great way of ending my film roadshow in 2012. Produced by Studio Ghibli, t...
Why the current EU strategy to protect Roma ethnicity is failing
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Burdened with their condition, impulsive, united in evil, the [Roma] Gypsies represent a foreign community impossible to integrate. (Noua Dreapta – Romani CRISS. Newsletter, Sept-Dec 2006) Roma constitute the largest ethnic minority in Europe, with...
Interview with the EU’s most famous politician: Nigel Farage
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Today we bring you an exclusive interview with Nigel Farage that was made by two of our authors – Jakub Janda and Ondřej Šlechta – during Mr Farage’s working visit to Prague on 16 June. As a magazine that supports a sovereign and...
Energy security in the V4: Assessment of possible cooperation to enhance security and development
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Energy security has become one of the most important issues on the agenda of the European Union since the second gas crisis of 2009 when Russian gas flows to Europe were interrupted in the course of Moscow’s dispute with Ukraine over transit fe...
Why Russia will never back down? Reasons behind supporting the Assad regime
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On June 12, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton raised U.S.-Russian tensions over the crisis in Syria by publicly accusing Russia of providing MI-25 attack helicopters to the Assad regime. Clinton detected, “We are concerned about the latest informa...
Splitting Along Pro-Choice and Pro-Life Lines: Abortion Debate in Turkey
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Abortion is a controversial issue due to its moral, ethical, practical, religious, and political aspects. Countless number of politicians, clerics, doctors, and representatives of women’s associations have in the past spoken out about this medical...
Igor Lukes: ‘US attitude towards Europe is above party lines’
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We present to you an interview with Igor Lukes, Czech-born professor of History and International Relations at Boston University. Our correspondent Jakub Janda questioned him about Republican Primaries, role of foreign policy in American political ca...
Trafficking of Women in the Balkans: A Modern-Day Slavery
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Over the past decade, “trafficking in persons” or “human trafficking” for commercial sexual exploitation has been one of the fastest growing areas of international organized criminal activity. In simplest terms, human trafficking is “a crue...
Germany and the crisis of the periphery
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Germany has played a major role in every discussion revolving around the current Greek budgetary crisis. Not only has the country been singled out as the biggest creditor, and more generally as Europe’s paymaster, but it has also come under sev...
Is Israel willing to go alone against Iran?
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It should not come as a surprise that after experiencing a new stalemate in solving the Iranian nuclear crisis, „intelligence sources” leaked that Israel would not warn the US before attempting to destroy Iran’s unchecked and secret nuclear fac...
Latvians reject Russian as their second official language
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Here we are again. It is exactly 21 years and one month since the last time when Latvian people had to stand up for their fundamental values. In those cold winter days of January 1991, Latvian people were united in their common effort to regain their...
Chalk vs. Tablet: Can FATIH Project Revolutionize the Turkish Education System?
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In many ways, and by any standard, Turkey is a vibrant country. Those who follow events in Turkey closely would definitely agree, as they must nowadays have difficulty with following the dizzying pace of events and making sense out of them. To be mor...
Embargo on Iranian oil: A move to save the US Dollar hegemony
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Acting through its ambassadors, the European Union has announced the imposition of an oil embargo on Iran from July 2012 on as well as placement of sanctions against Iran’s Central Bank, which aim to disrupt the funding of the country’s n...
A story of a renewal gone terribly wrong
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Note: Aron A. Nemeth wrote an interesting article on the developments in Hungary a month ago (Troubles with Viktor: Latest developments in Hungary). Writing from a different perspective (he is a native Hungarian), I do feel that there is a lot of re...
Is European economic prosperity really dependent on mass immigration?
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The purpose of this article is to overview the issues and arguments surrounding the question of mass immigration to Europe. Its analysis is conceptually and in the use of available data focused on the last decade of immigration to what is now the Eur...
Troubles with Viktor: Latest developments in Hungary
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Once a genuine liberal democrat, Hungary’s prime minister Viktor Orban is slowly tightening his party’s grip on the Parliament and with it on his native country as a whole. However, Hungarians are a persistent bunch and they proved to the world m...
Last interview with Vaclav Havel: To bomb Belgrade was a tough decision
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We publish the last interview given by the late Czech President Vaclav Havel, which was given to our contributor Jakub Janda in December 2011 on the issues of civic heroism, human indifference and what turned out to be one very frustrating translatio...
Interview with Tomas Valasek: “EU has too few soldiers!”
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Interview conducted by Czech political analyst Jakub Janda with respected security expert Tomas Valasek on the question of European defense, Libya, and the future of NATO in the light of the decline of American support. In your recent study, Survivin...
China’s peaceful rise and the good neighbor policy
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‘China’s road of peaceful development is a brand-new one for mankind in pursuit of civilization and progress, the inevitable way for China to achieve modernization, and a serious choice and solemn promise made by the Chinese government an...
Putin’s Eurasian Union: A danger or strategic opportunity?
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When Vladimir Putin recently published an article in the Russian daily Izvestia that officially announced his plans for the establishment of an Eurasian Union in the geographical space of former USSR countries, he caused quite an uproar in the Wester...
