Margaret Thatcher against the miners: Symbolic and substantive victory

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Germany and France are so different. And that’s why it is working

But the EU also need decisiveness. Zbigniew Brzezinski just recently said that Europe needs today much more evocative forward-looking leadership of the kind it had some decades ago and which today is lacking. We hear this argument about leadership pretty often, but what it means in your opinion? What kind of leadership does Europe need? It is hard to deny that we need some leadership but the situation it pretty different then e.g. 50 years ago, in the time of Élysée Treaty.

R.I.P. Norman Schwarzkopf. What is his legacy?

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Neil Armstrong: He was a gentle, witty, good man, uncomfortable with his status as an icon

R.I.P. Neil Armstrong (August 5, 1930 – August 25, 2012), he was the first person to walk on the Moon.

Nazi war criminal László Csatáry must be brought to justice

The Simon Wiesenthal Centre confirmed that László Csatáry, accused of complicity in the killings of 15,700 Jews, had been tracked down to the Hungarian capital.

Update:

Hungarian prosecutors arrest Csatary, charge him with Nazi-era war crimes.

Is Euro divisive? Or is it an integration tool of the EU?

Euro coins and banknotes entered circulation 10 year ago, on 1 January 2002.

Vaclav Havel vs the world

President Barack Obama said Havel’s word echo through the ages. Really?

R.I.P. Otto von Habsburg

The eldest son and heir of Austria’s last emperor Karl I. died at the age of 98.

The beatification of John Paul II: How did he change the Catholic Church?

The ceremony of beatification of the late Pope John Paul II (1920 – 2005) will take place tomorrow in Rome.

Ronald Reagan, Fall of the Soviet Bloc and Egypt

President Ronald Reagan would turn 100 today. Happy Birthday!