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Migrants clashed with police on Macedonia’s southern border over the weekend.
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Migrants clashed with police on Macedonia’s southern border over the weekend.
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Remittances from foreign-based workers are vital to the nation’s economy.
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Council of Europe’s top rights official urges Budapest to scrap laws that criminalize migration.
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Last week the Czech Republic witnessed the emergence of Bohuslav Sobotka as a major new political player.
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This paper regards the urban street as social space, where different symbolic interactions occur between individuals and groups of people. The established social and political order within this space happens to be disturbed by different forms of protest. An article attempts to compare the course of riots in former times to those at present. The comparison implies that the functional grandness of the urban street belongs to the past. This is mainly caused by new legal regulations restricting freedom of assembly and the new tele-electronic media space, and by a deepening division of the Polish society into different groups of interest, and its consequent inability to consolidate. An indirect cause also is the new order and mentality developed in democratic societies and by a consumeristic lifestyle.
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The article is focused on analyzing the relationship between the city and the citizen. Currently, the city applies the principle of responsible behaviour, in which the city stands out as a good citizen to respond to the needs of its key partners — citizens. The aim of the article is to analyze, on the example of selected municipal governments of the Slovak Republic and their activities, the readiness of the government for partnership with citizens, and to propose how to manage this relationship. The research was conducted between 2012 and 2013 in selected urban municipalities of the Slovak Republic’s Banska Bystrica region: Banska Bystrica, Zvolen and Žiar Hronom. An analysis of the relationship between the city and citizen was carried out by means of open interviews with the municipal authorities, questioning citizens and own observations. The results of our research showed that, irrespective of the size of the city, selected municipalities showed a low level of preparedness for the creation of partnerships with citizens.
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The article deals with the subject bordering on two areas: historical remembrance and the theory of politics. The Second World War, including Holocaust, as irrational historical catastrophe, was a traumatic experience for the European societies. The magnitude of this catastrophe discredited the concept of historical thinking founded on a reason that exists within historical process. Holocaust uncovered the destructive power rooted in modernity itself. The political elites had to find an answer to a question how, in the middle of Europe with cultural identity founded on: Greek philosophy, Roman law and Judeo-Christian tradition, such inhuman crimes took place. The starting point of the article is Holocaust as a process of social destructive transgression, both to Jews and European societies. The ending point – Holocaust as phenomenon initiating constructive transgression: foundation of the Israel country and the new post-war order in Europe.
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After the Second World War, The Federal Republic of Germany gradually began to transform exile in the country of immigration. The formal recognition of Germany as a country of immigration for many years was regarded as a taboo, and both the political and public debate spared this issue. Until recently, Germany’s policy on immigrants was based on an outdated concept of Gastarbeiter system, which had two fundamental assumptions, namely that immigrants are a temporary phenomenon, and their presence is associated only with the labor market. During their stay in Germany, they were entitled to social rights, but it was not required from them to integrate with the host society, because it could interfere with the process of returning to their homeland. The beginning of the new millennium, however, brought a lot of changes. Revolutionaary new provisions has been introduced to the naturalization law, emphasis has been given to integration programs, a system of green cards has been created and many other complex actions has been taken. After some time, Germany realize that they are the country of immigration, and will have to cope with the challenges posed by the fact.
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Which God sanctified power? In the Roman Empire in 1 BC, during the transition of power, there was a question of legitimization comprehensive victory winner. That was an interesting phenomenon, when generals and statesmen addressed primarily the cult of Dionysus. These figures could be the Romans, but primarily embodied the opposite side of the conflict. Why is this God or only this God? Analysis of complex sources shows that depending on the circumstances, politicians have used the help of many gods. And the attitude to this practice was formed by both situation and propaganda.
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By analyzing the political career of Bruce Springsteen’s album “Born in the U.S.A.” (1984), around which the narrative of this article took place, I tried to make a closer insight to the relation between the American politics and popular culture in the mid-1980, considered as the essential aim of this article. Main attention was put on various attempts taken by Ronald Reagan’s administration to co-opt the album’s pop cultural significance for political purposes, especially to reinforce the so called “conservative evolution” perceived as right-wing, libertarian response to the hippie movement. Bruce Springsteen, who through his hard and consistent work achieved enormous success while still remaining himself, a fellow boy from New Jersey, was presented as a role model for the yuppie generation. The title track was read as an anthem for the new American patriotism. This particular interpretation proved to be wrong. In fact, the album’s essential motif is the widening gap between Reagan’s reinterpretation of the American Dream and disappointing reality. However, it did not prevent the Republicans from winning the 1984 election and general misunderstanding of its message.
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Decrepit old structures must go, but plans for their replacements are classified, official claims.
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To understand Chinese tradition, it is necessary to clarify the creative process of change as a category of interaction between complementary opposites. In the absence of Western dualistic concept, China has developed a correlative way of thinking about the world. This conception plays an important role in the consideration of the legal culture of China. Unfortunately, often the basis for the analysis of Chinese tradition, culture, and politics lacks this correlative Chinese thinking. Correlative way of thinking based on continuity through change formed not only Chinese philosophy, but also is still forming Chinese reality.
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The reform of Chinese banking system was undertaken by Deng Xiaoping in 1978. During this structural change, the central bank of the People’s Republic of China departed the ministry and became a separate entity. The People’s Bank of China was formally established as the central bank in 1983 by the State Council. As a result of the reforms of Deng Xiaoping China underwent a change of monobank system to two-tier banking system. Moreover, the function of the People’s Bank of China as a central bank was formally confirmed in 1995 when the third Plenum of the National People’s Congress adopted The Law of the People’s Republic of China on the People’s Bank of China. The China Banking Regulatory Commission (CBRC) is the supervisor of the financial institutions in the People’s Republic of China. The central government established this institution in March 2003. The State Council is the leadership of the CBRC. The main functions of the China Banking Regulatory Commission is the formulation of supervisory rules and regulations concerning the Chinese banking institutions, the authorization of the establishment, changes of the financial institutions and also the compilation and publishing of the statistics and reports of the banking industry.
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The main objective of the European cohesion policy is the convergence of the Member States, enabling civilization advancement of less developed regions. In the implementation of this kind of policy the rational use of land plays an important role. The National Spatial Development Concept 2030 assumes that the determinant of the living conditions of citizens and the local and regional development is to restore and preserve the spatial order. An interesting example enabling the realisation of such a goal is to determine the functional area at the junction of three cities: Chorzów, Ruda Śląska and Świętochłowice. This area is characterised by a similar industrial history, analogous internal (e.g. social) and external (e.g. transport) conditions, which supports the idea of undertaking joint ventures related to the rational use of land.
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In the article the Author addresses the problem of public-private partnership (PPP) development in Poland in the years 2009-2014. Within this period 363 PPPs were initiated. These projects were assessed according to (1) legal form, (2) nature of public tasks and in the context of the territorial and administrative division of the country. The article also raises the problem of local government debt in Poland and the need to undertake research projects on PPPs in the context of growing deficit of public finances.
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The author analyzes four key factors of the state built upon principles of the Latin civilization; these factors include morality (the uprightness of citizens), science, production and army. He accentuates that all the actions based on revolutionary methods and assumptions must be removed from the social life of Europe and Poland because of their harmfulness and dangerous practices. Politics, when realized according to the above-selected principles, allows recovering and strengthening the pillars of Western culture. These pillars include: A) Family based on the undissolvable and unsolicited marriage of a man and a woman, which fosters love between them and for all the others, which enables the actual equality of a man and a woman in their rights and duties, which founds private property and the opportunity of getting matured during the lifetime of parents. B) The administration of justice in all areas of human life through the public authority which while giving back what is due to each other contributes in establishing a genuine interpersonal peace along with its various fruits. C) The respect for human work which enables an essential development of any human goods, as well as the eradication of any form of slavery. D) The independence of religious life from political and temporal factors, which ultimately serves the priority of the human spirit over all the finite and the means for human life.
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Following the call of Kazimierz Twardowski, who in 1936 spoke of “the dignity of the university”, this essay is an attempt to examine the extent to which this idea is still valid. By distinguishing between “governance” (critical analysis of the situation and advocating adequate means not only for describing, but also for changing the world) and “management” (serving primarily not to renew or change the world, but to achieve quantifiable results in the application of well-known and thoroughly elaborated administrative and financial measures), we show that one of the main problems in the academy today is the lack of a proper critical distance to the accepted ways of organizing the world, recognized, too hastily, as uncontested. This is why universities have had imposed on them a discourse of economics as the only means of conducting and describing their activities. Without neglecting in any way economic factors, it is necessary to refuse to follow the techno-bureaucratic policies being applied in universities as a means of “forcing” results in research. The task and role of the university are rooted in a deep conviction that the problems of today's world cannot be solved solely through the belief they are purely economic in nature. The University has always demanded we recognize the moral causes of the difficulties that place a strain on our common existence. What is forgotten by the techno-bureaucracy currently “managing” science and education, is, as Leszek Kołakowski summed up perfectly, fact that: “(...) for at least some of the great problems facing mankind there are no purely technical or organizational solutions”, because they require, above all, a “spiritual transformation”.
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Bulgaria may detain migrants in gated centers after violent incidents in one of the country’s refugee centers.
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In the paper the author analyses and presents through practical examples the use of storytelling as the bearer of the persuasion and change ideology. The course of usage is presented through its inception in film industry, mass media to virtual reality. The author has explained how storytelling became part of the panoptic view and participation in the hegemony of power in such way that it assures the rules for behaviour as well as the pedagogy of change. In this paper storytelling is presented as the memory keeper and bearer of strategic project because it possesses the power which cannot be manifested in the control and discipline but in the collective story and memory.
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After embracing his Jewish heritage, former far-right party leader is focused on fighting anti-Semitism.
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