In 2016, the US president Donald J. Trump announced that he wanted to Make America Great Again (MAGA), but he encountered a variety of reactions. The phrase was first introduced during Ronald Reagan’s 1980 presidential campaign and was used again by Bill Clinton in 1992. However, “MAGA” was first used as an official slogan for an election campaign by president ...
John Bolton recently referred to Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua as a “three tyrants” and announced that sanctions would be imposed against all three. According to him, all three countries will soon experience the “hard sanctions regime”. The main reason, according to Bolton, is human rights violations. The sanctions will include the ban on US citizens who take part in trade ...
Europe Bosnia and Herzegovina: general elections On October 7, 2018, general elections were held in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The most significant outcome was the election of Milorad Dodik from the Republika Srpska as President of Bosnia and Herzegovina. His party, the Union of Independent Social Democrats, also remained a majority in the Republika Srpska parliament. Dodik’s associate Zelka Tsviyanovich became ...
Europe The Elections in Sweden: populists and the possibility of joining NATO On the 9thof September, Parliamentary elections took place in Sweden. The parties of the ruling “red-green bloc” – the Social Democratic Workers’ Party of Sweden, the Left Party (PL) and the Party of Environmental Protection (EPP) won with a slight advantage over the opposition center-right alliance – the ...
Since various Communities in Europe have become a unified European State (at least since the Treaty of Lisbon) – it has been absolutely clear that this state-project cannot be maintained as it is, and as of today exists in an explicitly transitory form. The question of whether the European Union will survive longer than the 9th European Parliament is an ...
Hungarians love order, peace and, to say it frankly, they are also people of pleasure. Therefore, they instinctively distrust revolutionary movements… but they nonetheless cannot go for long without reacting to foreign oppression and domination. Whoever rules in Hungary must understand that Hungary – once a major European power – is always willing to fight for her freedom, identity and ...
The well-known statement: “Geography determines fate!” is attributed to Ibn Khaldun. His believed that the fate of a people is closely connected with the geography of their homeland. For example, the ruler of Russia, regardless of whether we are talking about Peter the Great or Vladimir Putin, must consider the plains of the Northern Europe as an issue of their ...