Thoughts about the New Year
The most recent elections in the United States and the Republic of Austria, as well as the outcome of the Italian referendum, leave us in awe at the end of the year.
Category: Politics
Here everything revolves around the big but also around the small politics.
Our Europe – a very personal attempt at an explanation
It all began when in 1945 in Europe, after a good 31 years of murder and manslaughter, the guns finally fell silent. Almost the entire world lay in ruins and the wars were shifted to regions of the world that were further away from us and less interesting for the western world.
Are we Europeans capable of democracy?
The mere fact that people who are said to have invented democracy lived in south-eastern Europe a few millennia ago does not make today's inhabitants of Europe democrats.
migratory movements
Motivated by the recent political statements that we are currently having to live through a “refugee crisis” and that people are increasingly being degraded to the point.
Speech at the meeting point Europe 2014
It is not tradition, as Thomas More aptly put it, to preserve the ashes, but to carry on the flame. And you, Lord Mayor, have kindly agreed to do so.
A unique opportunity for the country
Jürgen Kümmerle, an editor at the Heilbronner Voice, interviewed me by phone a few days ago. I'm actually quite happy with the result.
