Year: 2021

Europe

Central Europe, The EU and myself (remember the future)

11/07/2021 Máté Bozóky 0

By Máté Bozóky

“Today is 23rd October 2089. I’m 88 years old. I am looking at the raising flags of Hungary and the European Union from my room’s window on Kossuth Square, in Budapest. I haven’t thought that I would be living on the 100th anniversary of the political changeover, but here I am to tell you a story, our story.”

Máté Bozóky won with this essay a competition organised by the European Hungarian Society and it was published in NÉPSZAVA, the biggest Hungarian newspaper. […]

Greece

Athens as an “illiberal democracy” – populist governance during antiquity

06/07/2021 Vladan Lausevic 1

By Vladan Lausevic

Something many people can recognise from history lessons in primary schools: The case of Athens as a democratic city-state is recognised as the first institutionalised democracy in human history.

However, Athens was also an example of a populist government without ruleoflaw and human rights.

What are the similarities and differences when compared to modern liberal/constitutional democracies as in the EU ? […]

Germany

Germany, the friend of the LGBTQI+ Community?

26/06/2021 Theresa Zettl 1

by Theresa Zettl

When we talk about rights of LGBTQI+ in Germany, we also need to talk about the blood donation ban for homosexual, bisexual men, and transsexual people. On regular basis debates in the Bundestag are led in this matter, but there are not really steps taken to ease the blood donation ban. […]