The best commentary, by far, for everything that happens these days in Ukraine and Europe:

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Predictable speeches, fireworks, pomp and circumstance marches. It's the 50th anniversary of the Treaty of Rome, when the European Union celebrates its first half of century. OK, we the Easterners are now part of the EU and it's natural to celebrate an EU holiday - like it's natural for the eurosceptics to say, with the words of a Scottish ( Read more... )

An excellent article about how has evolved the welfare state - in El Pais (in Spanish). In short: the state has abandoned the idea of protecting its citizens from unemployment, from abuse of the more powerful or from the juridic insecurity, choosing instead to limit to the purely physical protection of the citizens. Hence the measures against ( Read more... )

I find increasingly annoying how primitive has become here the etics of work and success. As we know, stock exchanges across the world have plunged and many predict that the plunge will continue. The Bucharest stock exchange has lost over a billion euro yesterday, and this is a huge loss for a small stock exchange like ours. On a forum of a ( Read more... )