The former East bloc won freedom after the Cold War but payed a very high price. Social and economic transition had a war-like impact on people’s social life. Confidence in each other and in social institutions is very low and so is the general moral. I think that should be a consideration in European policy-making.
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Although only American citizens have a vote, the whole globalized world will be effected by the presidential elections in the world’s strongest democracy. Europeans have high hopes and a high level of trust in Senator Obama.
According to the latest international poll of Pew Global Attitudes Project, a very high number of Earthlings take the American [...]

The high oil prices of 2008 have lead to a similar historical result as in the 1970s: the notorious oil-burner Americans cut back on their carbon-dioxide emission habits. I think this shows that the main source of carbon emission, namely fossil fuels, is price and income sensitive, and if you raise the price, consumption and [...]

France’s state-owned railway company’s fast-train alternative to flying from Brussel to Strasbourg may be ‘marketed’ as eco-friendly but it looks to me that it makes the rest of the world laughing at us. The cheap alternative to flying costs the European taxpayer about €. 300 000. Euroskeptics are outraged, but there are more logical comments: [...]