Behind the scenes of the most recent Neo Nazis march: More and more, all over Europe, Neo Nazis are taking to the streets. In Eastern Europe, Neo Nazis are counting on youth to infiltrate the political scene.
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"How political defectors re-elected a president on the warpath?" "If votes continue to be gained thanks to defectors, elections will become superfluous." "The president is nothing more than a player who knows how to use the means at his disposal and, by sleight-of-hand, prolong his time in the field."
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One merit of the Berlin Wall was that it made obvious where Europe ended. But now the question of Europe’s borders has become a staple of debate in the European Union.
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"How the auto industry thwarts environmental reforms." "We have to come to terms with the fact that there is no silver bullet for the ecological harm caused by our car addiction. Marketing electric cars as “clean” transport would mean admitting that GM’s more product was dirty."
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A Czech psychologist offers some provocative opinions: Lying is also an essential social skill. One parent should always be stricter and the other one more forgiving.
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"A concise review of the latest American books on Europe." "The US will maintain its leading position in the world, but it will not achieve the peace founded on democracy it longs for, because it will not be strong enough." "Europe’s aspiration to reverse the longterm decline of its position in the world will probably come to naught." Among others: GDP data per capita, calculated in terms of Purchasing Power Parity, and world ranking.
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"Our prison system is now back to where it was in 1989." "People don’t realize that watching the world from behind bars and knowing you will never see it again is much worse than a moment of fear before your execution."
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Have modern prisons turned into schools for criminals? "Even though mass facilities make prisoners become part of the criminal subculture, our prison system continues this tradition."
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"When it comes to economic crime and corruption, Czechs hold their own." "The number of economic crimes has not gone down, the pattern has simply changed." "In the Czech Republic, cases when fraud investigations go on for far too long and often evaporate into thin air are all too common."
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Presidential Elections in Russia and the United States: the perils of power and weakness. Vladimir Putin publicly designated Dmitrij Medvedev as his successor well in advance of the March presidential elections in Russia. However, this does not say anything about Moscow’s politics in the future.
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Events between 1st January 2008 and 3rd April 2008.
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"Thanks to funding from the European Union and investments into the 1998 World Expo, the princess has recovered substantially from her decadent airs. The birch trees that used to grow out of the windows of the city’s decaying palaces have disappeared."
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"A time lag, ideological spats and politically motivated purges at all levels of the state administration do not bode well." "We will be lucky if we succeed in avoiding any large-scale organizational calamities." "The Czech Republic is seen as a country that needlessly throws sand into the works of European integration."
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Here come the Chinese Olympics, with special pigs, dirty air, absorbing sand, spraypainted grass and birds nests and other grandiose preparations, all in the shadow of human rights abuses and Chinese “non-intervention”. "As far as practical preparations go, Beijing is in the home stretch, but there has been no great progress in the democratization of the country."
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Czech diplomats are congratulating themselves on their unprecedented success in persuading the Americans to abolish tourist visas for Czechs. Unfortunately, this is a Pyrrhic victory.
More...Keywords: evolutionary interpretation; economic freedom; freedom to undertake
Decision no. 498/2012 of the Constitutional Court on art. 1 lit. g) of Law no. 12/1990 brings to the fore two legal issues: 1) Change of the jurisprudence of the Constitutional Court, as in regard with art. 1 lit. g) of Law no. 12/1990 two decisions of the Constitutional Court have been issued, enshrining contrary decisions (to reject, namely to admit the objection) and 2) the concept of evolutionary interpretation, as the basis for the change in jurisprudence of the Constitutional Court, given that the reconsideration of the jurisprudence was the result of a change in vision on the content of the fundamental right covered by art. 45 "Economic freedom", in conjunction with the State's obligations contained in art. 135 "Economy".
More...Keywords: partnership agreement; european funds; challanges
The Ministry of European Funds presented and sent the European Commission on the 11st of October, the first version of the Partnership proposed by Romania for the period 2014-2020. According to the website of the Ministry of European Funds, www.fonduri-ue.ro, the document was transmitted informally, because the European Union have not yet adopted regulations that will determine how they will be implemented in the next period of European funds programming.
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Keywords: Azerbaijan; media; government; opposition; journalists; press freedom; Ilham Aliev; Yeni Musavat; Yadigar Mammadli;
Azerbaijani media accept critical financial aid from the same government that many say aims to silence them.
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Keywords: Belarus; women; birth; abortion; Soviet Union; family planning; health; Alyaksandr Lukashenka; aging nation; pro-natal policies; law; reproductive rights;
Though Belarus has some of the world’s most permissive abortion laws, the country has other, less visible restrictions on reproductive rights.
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