Last night, I was awaken by the noise of iron gates in front of my house being moved. I accused some crazy drunkards of being in an aggressive mood. However, when I woke up in the morning – parliamentary election day in Hungary – apparently something else had happened. Együtt 2014 – a coalition of 5…
Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has lost his sense of democratic accountability. Some YouTube videos have put the PM in a very bad light. Instead of convincing others that these are falsified materials – that is, if he didn’t actually had nothing to hide -, he lost his usual temper and decided to impose censorship…
Today, the EC published an evaluation of the EU’s performance in the OECD’s Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) report was published. It assesses the progress 15-year old pupils in OECD countries have made from 2009 to 2012 in the subjects of Math, Science and Reading. The OECD has the following to say about Hungary’s performance:…
In June 2013, Geert Wilders, party leader of the far right party in the Netherlands, PVV (Party for Freedom/Freedom Party), in an interview in California said the following: The majority of the Muslims are friendly and moderate people, who are as concerned as others about a good life, and a good life for their children. Something…
Everything Should Be Made as Simple as Possible, But Not Simpler – Albert Einstein Found in the context of research methodology, but is so applicable beyond that!
Thinking politics 