Slovak elections may appear a minor event in the world or European scale (from football World Cup to Catalonian steps towards more autonomy), but in the discussion over flat tax and neoliberalism it is a significant one. The centre left party of SMER and Róbert Fico won 29 percent of the vote against the 18 [...]
Berlin is gorgeous, sunny and hot. And all around can one feel football Wold Cup in the air. One can see the matches in bars and cafes, restaurants and even theatres and cinemas. It’s really amazing. Luckily, I like football. And I even bear at least still the horns that go on day and night [...]
I'm having a beer at one of the cafés of the Berliner Hauptbahnhof: it has been opened seven days ago, and yet the amount of flâneurs in the station seems to surpasses the amount of serious travellers. This is the station which was to raise one station over the many where train travellers to Berlin [...]
Well, it took a while to settle down, but now I even have 1) a well-portable laptop with wireless access and 2) an office at the Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Institute for European Ethnology. Being online and available is much easier now.
The Hungarian elections are a bit passee now, but I'll hopefully post up here [...]
