COMMEMORATION!
All Vaudois know the doctor César Roux, the American president Woodrow Wilson, the baron Pierre de Coubertin, or even Maurice Béjart. By contrast, Ioannis Capodistrias is completely unknown. Nevertheless, like the others, the one-time Russian envoy in Switzerland is one of the (...)
In accordance with the provisions in the Lisbon Treaty, the European Union is characterized in many encyclopedias of European countries as follows:
The European Union (EU) is an association of independent States that have committed themselves
1) in some policy areas only common to act
2) to (...)
»It is the oldest trick of the bourgeoisie, to let the voters freely choose his lack of political maturity in depriving him the knowledge of his situation. This what someone needs to choose his way is knowledge. What comes out when a man who neither could read nor staff to learn playing the (...)
What if Europe was not our chance, but that of the whole world? Jeremy RIFKIN : The European Dream.
The big drama of salaries is the background to the dream. Is rise in salaries beneficial or harmful? Look at the characters. Left stage: Henry Ford, F.D. Roosevelt, J.M. Keynes, K. Adenauer, (...)
Brussels, 23 February 2009
If it is true that good institutions (and those provided for under the Lisbon Treaty are certainly better than those under the Treaty of Nice) are a necessary precondition for conducting better policies, it is no less true that even with modernized institutions, the (...)
Jeremy Rifkin - Petr Mach - in Open democracy. Website.
Sunday 28 December 2008
Is America a model or a bad example for Europe? In the ninth of our Letters to Americans series, Czech "Eurosceptic" and presidential adviser, Petr Mach, writes to ]eremy Rifkin, US author of "The European Dream"
Personal values
Personal values evolve from circumstances with the external world and can change over time. Integrity in the application of values refers to its continuity; persons have integrity if they apply their values appropriately regardless of arguments or negative reinforcement from (...)
Debates about European identity have intensified in the context of EU enlargement and the EU Constitutional Treaty. Although the motto "unity in diversity" is generally seen as best describing the aim of the EU, opinions differ widely as to how it should be understood.
Background:
The point of (...)