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Loverboy, Heroin, Happiness: 18 October 2012 – EU-Anti-Trafficking Day
When I was a kid, I could play this game for hours: staying in front of the mirror, moving my left hand to see whether the person on the wall would move her right hand… And I was incessantly expecting she’d move her left hand, just like myself. I had […]
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When Ethnos Decides, Not Demos
When voters go to the voting booth they think which candidate offers the best program for education, the lowest taxes, the best pension system, the most reliable healthcare system, the economic policies that ensure low interest rates, safety in the streets, etc. We might assume that voters in Macedonia face […]
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Peace is an act, not a state of being
The question of peace has haunted me ever since I was a teenager. This is hardly surprising because I, like many of my fellow citizens, spent my adolescence during the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina, witnessing and experiencing many of the horrors which the rest of the world saw second-hand through the […]
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Is the governing party of Hungary really an anti-EU party?
What responsibility do we bloggers have when we choose the expression of “an anti-EU party” for describing the governing party of Hungary? Fidesz is definitely not one of those easy-to-grasp parties. Just remember how proud Hungary was of its EU Presidency at the beginning of 2011, over half a year […]
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What colors work well with gray? Chişinău breaks out of the Soviet Mould
What lays further East, beyond the borders of the European Union, is often a black hole for the Western World. The Republic of Moldova is a prime example of a state that doesn’t say a great deal to many of us. The area was consistently under the rule of various […]