Tag: politics
Obama Wins New Term as Electoral Advantage Holds Voters returned President Obama to the White House, but he will face a Congress with the same divisions that marked his first term.
That’s what’s happening now (á la The West Wing). 🙂 donna-moss: election day ww spam ‘12 | the west wing ; 7×17 ”election day part ii”
I might be all US politics today, but it is going to be an exciting night, and from where I stand it definitely IS a world affair! Oh and if you are American, don’t forget to VOTE! “decisions are made by those who show up” 🙂
http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/.element/apps/cvp/3.0/swf/cnn_416x234_embed.swf?context=embed&videoId=politics/2012/11/05/evc-campaign-in-two-minutes.cnn Missed the biggest moments of this US presidential campaign? Here’s how you catch up in two minutes! 🙂 (Source: http://i.cdn.turner.com/)
US election: Europeans endorse Obama for a second term | EurActiv Interesting piece on why we in Europe care about this election at all…
The UN dedicates this year’s observance of the International Day of Democracy to democracy education. As Secretary General Ban Ki-moon says, let’s “work to bring democracy education to all, and in particular, to those societies in transition that need it most.” I double that! Especially political education being sort of my obsession for quite a long time. I think young population of each nation (not just those in transition) needs proper political education from an early age, the kind of which old democracies like the US has a long time tradition. I live in a country where the most of young…
Political culture. That is what we lack here in Hungary… habemuspolitico: Obama saluda a un seguidor de Romney. Civilización.
Interesting piece on Hungarian politics. A native Hungarian speaker proofreader wouldn’t have hurt, but other than a few mistakes, almost fully agreed. foreignaffairsmagazine: Wrong Way Down the Danube: How Hungary’s Democratic Backsliding Threatens Europe Greece’s economic peril has raised fears about the end of the eurozone. But Hungary’s autocratic turn under Prime Minister Viktor Orban presents a more fundamental challenge to the European project.
On the anniversary of the 2004 Madrid train bombings Europe remembers the victims of all forms of terrorism around the world.
