It is moral to state aloud what you are, it is moral to be consistent in affirming your own beliefs, it is moral to think in the long run, it is moral to affirm your own identity. It is moral to have the courage to say you are different from the others, even if the others represent, for the time being, the majority.On Saturday, June 26th, the Government broke all previous assurances and promises and imposed a 5% hike in the VAT, raising it to 24%, one of the highest in the European Union. This while the country’s economy is sinking and the citizens’ savings are eaten away by inflation. But this is no surprise. The Boc ...
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“Love is spent, just like humility, piety. Man now proudly desires to be master and, selfishly, to fight and defeat his enemies, whomever and wherever they might be.” (L. Rebreanu, The Forest of the Hanged) In the British parliamentary system, the term “hung parliament” describes a parliament in which no political party holds a clear ...
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The recent presidential elections have been won by Traian Băsescu, who astutely created and took full advantage of a true tidal wave of anti-communist emotions, particularly powerful outside the borders of Romania, among the expats who are of necessity less well informed about the realities of politics at home and are, moreover, by nature and ...
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In 1773, the British government passed the Tea Act, a law which made the East India Company the only entity allowed to sell tea in the American colonies and which included a special tax in the final price of the savoury leaves. It did so because it was, on the one hand, preoccupied with the ...
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The government coalition is terrified. The protests which will take place today in Bucharest, and which will gather around 80,000 people according to their organizers, are described by the government as an attempt against the security of the state, a coup d’état or a new “mineriad” (a reminder of the coal miners’ violent descent on ...
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