Society
Balance restoration
Extension of the retirement age is necessary and it results from both demographic transformations and future challenges of the labour market The contemporary Pole’s life looks more or less as follows – he spends about 25 first years of life outside the labour market trying to overcome next stages of education. Next, there is about [...]
Give me my Marseilles back!
I have recently read an interesting article by my friend from editorial office, Dominika Blachnicka, on difficult situation of Palestinians in Israel and Europe (http://liberteworld.com/2012/01/12/why-palestinian-stories-matter-to-me-anyway/). In the article, she shows her wholeheartedness for this national group and she deplores the everyday life practice in Israel. This is most visible near the border with Autonomy’s territory, [...]
Young intellectuals and politics
It seems that nobody cares about young people, especially those who take an interest in politics. But the young are aware that Polish educational system is not perfect. They know that the level of unemployment among university graduates is high. Young people notice the weak points of Polish politicians and often claim that constant disputes [...]
The Clash of Barbarities
Actions 23-year old French citizen of Algerian descent dies from a sniper’s bullet. Earlier this citizen kills three unarmed soldiers (it appears that two of them were black-skinned Muslims) and three all the more defenceless Jewish children and a rabbi who is taking care of them. One of the girls tries to run away. The [...]
Youth! It’s about time to wake up.
Polish political and social lives are full of preposterous situations. For the first four years of his term of office, Donald Tusk did practically nothing (practically, for it has to be mentioned that he had abolished conscription and some of the retirement benefits) for the young generation. Nevertheless, he still maintained a large support of [...]
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Birth and death
For the past two years Mariola has been seeing her parents only in court. Each time she hears: “You took our Krzysio! You are a pervert! We’ve lost our child!” In front of the courtroom doors I met Mariola’s colleagues. They were called to testify the following: “Mariola always dolled herself up and, well, everybody [...]
13% of Poles are personally involved in the protest
Last weeks went by under the banner of protests against ACTA, and at work we decided to ask Poles what do they think about it. The protest is a fight for freedom in the Internet For young Poles the protest against ACTA means first of all a struggle for freedom of the Internet. As much [...]
Is the French social model becoming a thing of the past?
To Europeans, French social model translates into a success story similar to that of Scandinavian model. Healthcare system is estimated to be the best in the world, French work professionally for a short time and enjoy the growing life expectancy, and fertility rate is surprisingly high compared to those in ageing Europe. However, French pay [...]
Nothing for free. Social policy can be efficient.
Social policy is probably the biggest worry of both the Polish state and society. We cannot talk about it in a rational way. Neither can we figure out its purpose, the reason why we spend a lot of money on it or what to do to make it efficient. The discourse is taking place to [...]
World In Outrage
Economic crisis is wreaking havoc all over Europe and the world, the unemployment is rising, the Euro zone countries are taking increasingly drastic measures to fight the recession. All over the world the crisis brings mobilization and social change; from the very beginning of the year rebellions – predominantly youth rebellions, have steamrolled through Arab [...]
